Villa took the lead in the fourth minute through Evann Guessand, but wasted four big chances before their Dutch opponents levelled just before half-time.<\/p>\n
Buendia continued his impressive recent form, but could not make it a fourth goal in five appearances, having netted the winner at Tottenham on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“Buendia has been playing unbelievably, he got the goal after coming off the bench at the weekend,” said Michail Antonio on TNT Sports. <\/p>\n
“Today he was very creative, finding a lot of through-ball passes. Me seeing him step up, I am thinking it’s a goal. It’s disappointing to see [the miss] but they have to take it on the head and keep moving forwards.”<\/p>\n
Emery appears to be doing just that as he appeared calm when asked post-match about Villa’s penalty woes.<\/p>\n
“Today the responsibility was for Buendia, and normally he has good numbers shooting penalties, but he missed.<\/p>\n
“Of course, something can happen, and we will try to get more clinical in the penalty shoot than the last penalties we have had.<\/p>\n
“Our takers are clear. Buendia was today, [Jadon] Sancho, John McGinn, Morgan [Rogers] as well can shoot penalties.<\/p>\n
“And, of course, Emiliano can repeat, but the idea is try to be so, so responsible about the decision and about the takers who can score.”<\/p>\n
Of those other options mentioned by Emery, Manchester United loanee Sancho is the most experienced penalty taker.<\/p>\n
However, the most recent of his three successful penalties at senior club level came while playing for Borussia Dortmund in February 2021.<\/p>\n
The responsibility to tackle Villa’s problem may well fall to Austin MacPhee, one of the game’s most highly respected set-piece coaches.<\/p>\n
He joined Villa in 2021 under Dean Smith’s tenure as manager, and combines his role with a position on the coaching staff of Portugal manager Roberto Martinez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Villa took the lead in the fourth minute through Evann Guessand, but wasted four big chances before their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-221673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221673","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=221673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}