John McGinn scored again as Aston Villa continued their winning run with an entertaining victory over Feyenoord in the Europa League.<\/p>\n
Villa began their European campaign last week without a win in six games.<\/p>\n
But three goals in three matches from their captain have helped them secure back-to-back wins in the Europa League either side of a first victory in the Premier League.<\/p>\n
McGinn slotted home Villa’s second in Rotterdam after the ball was nudged into his path when Donyell Malen sprinted into the area but was halted by three Feyenoord players.<\/p>\n
Emiliano Buendia opened the scoring in the 61st minute with a curled finish after what had been an end-to-end first half filled with controversial decisions.<\/p>\n
Unai Emery’s side were aggrieved when Anel Ahmedhodzic brought down Ollie Watkins in the 13th minute with the striker bearing down on goal.<\/p>\n
The Swedish defender was shown a yellow card for the challenge and referee Rade Obrenovic was advised to review the incident at the monitor to potentially upgrade to red.<\/p>\n
However, the Slovenian official opted to stick with his original decision, despite Ahmedhodzic appearing to deny Watkins a clear goalscoring opportunity.<\/p>\n
Villa may also have considered themselves lucky not to be 1-0 down when Ayase Ueda’s first-half header clearly crossed the goal line, despite Marco Bizot’s efforts to claw it away.<\/p>\n
However, the goal was not given because of a foul on Matty Cash in the box.<\/p>\n
Victory leaves Villa third in the Europa League table and, with boss Unai Emery a four-time winner of the competition, they will hope this is the beginning of a successful campaign in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John McGinn scored again as Aston Villa continued their winning run with an entertaining victory over Feyenoord in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-187133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}