{"id":167746,"date":"2025-09-29T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167746\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:02:09","slug":"john-mcginn-backs-aston-villa-star-who-has-come-under-fire-recently-that-shuts-a-few-people-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/167746\/","title":{"rendered":"John McGinn backs Aston Villa star who has come under fire recently, ‘that shuts a few people up’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aston Villa have finally returned to winning ways as they registered a huge comeback triumph over Fulham in the Premier League.<\/p>\n

The Villans went behind early on, as Raul Jimenez<\/a> nodded on from a corner at the front post to beat Emi Martinez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just before half-time, Aston Villa<\/a> hit back through Ollie Watkins<\/a>, before quickfire goals from John McGinn<\/a> and Emi Buendia<\/a> gave them the lead in the second half.<\/p>\n

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In the end, Unai Emery<\/a> and his side saw out the game, registering their first win of the Premier League<\/a> campaign in front of their home fans.<\/p>\n

The start of the season has come with plenty of criticism, but the club captain McGinn has come out in defence of one of his teammates.<\/p>\n

\"JohnPhoto by Dan Mullan\/Getty ImagesJohn McGinn backs Ollie Watkins after tough start to Aston Villa season<\/p>\n

Ollie Watkins impressed against Fulham<\/a>, finally getting off the mark with a goal in the league after a slow start to the season.<\/p>\n

His form has coincided with the struggles of his teammates, as Aston Villa have been searching for something to kickstart the season.<\/p>\n

Now they have that, club captain John McGinn has come out in defence of Watkins, as he told BBC\u2019s Match of the Day 2: \u201cHe [Watkins] has had a lot of criticism in recent weeks, but what he will get from us as team-mates and staff is love and support.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat he has given us in recent seasons is nothing short of brilliant.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe always has a spell in the season when it doesn\u2019t quite click for him, but he runs a lot and he works hard and then when he gets the ball, you expect that he will score. Hopefully that shuts a few people up.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Watkins up and running, there will be some hope that he can return to the sort of form that he has shown in recent seasons.<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll be crucial for Aston Villa to get their own hopes off the ground, with only six games played so far this season.<\/p>\n

\"OlliePhoto by DARREN STAPLES\/AFP via Getty ImagesUnai Emery gives Ollie Watkins verdict after Aston Villa vs Fulham<\/p>\n

There have been questions surrounding Watkins and his place at Aston Villa, following the end of last season.<\/p>\n

The striker was dropped for the match against PSG in the Champions League last campaign, creating doubts over his future.<\/p>\n

However, with that now firmly at Villa Park, it\u2019s clear that he will need to recapture his previous form.<\/p>\n

Unai Emery gave his thoughts on the star after the game when he said: \u201cHopefully he can keep going. It\u2019s the consequence of how he played in 30 minutes on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important and first step forward is to play, focus, be demanding, and he was doing it on Thursday and today.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe goals are hopefully [also] coming for the next match.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aston Villa will be switching between Europa League action and Premier League matches, with some favourable fixtures coming up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Villa have finally returned to winning ways as they registered a huge comeback triumph over Fulham in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2604,1725,218,35844,11262,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-167746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-aston-villa","tag-english-premier-league","tag-football","tag-john-mcginn","tag-ollie-watkins","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}