Villa’s apparent attacking shortcomings – especially in the early part of the season – have been well documented.<\/p>\n
Those sluggish early games, when they went four matches without scoring, now feel like a distant memory.<\/p>\n
After a fourth consecutive home win, Villa Park looks to be back to the fortress Unai Emery made it last season, when they lost just once in the league.<\/p>\n
Their biggest margin of victory this season was underpinned by an impressive display by Buendia, as the revival of his Villa career continues.<\/p>\n
Buendia’s future looked uncertain in the summer after he spent the second half of last season on loan at Bayer Leverkusen after struggling to break into the Villa side.<\/p>\n
His performance against Bournemouth was purposeful, and was capped with a fine goal.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old Argentine won the Premier League’s goal of the month award for October for his winner against Tottenham.<\/p>\n
He provided a contender for November with the opener on Sunday, getting his effort up and over the Bournemouth wall with goalkeeper Petrovic only able to watch it fly into the net.<\/p>\n
While Bunedia enjoyed a good day – he is now Villa’s top scorer with three – it was one of frustration for Ollie Watkins.<\/p>\n
Watkins has scored just once in 16 games in all competitions for the club this season.<\/p>\n
Getting a tune out of the 29-year-old striker will be high on Emery’s to-do list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Villa’s apparent attacking shortcomings – especially in the early part of the season – have been well documented.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-282046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}