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Aston Villa<\/a><\/p>\nAston Villa’s John McGinn speaking to TNT Sports: “Delighted. It was a slow first half, personally as well
\ntrying to get back up to speed. It wasn\u2019t a pretty performance but the main thing
\nis we are in the quarter-final.”<\/p>\n
On Emi Martinez’s pass for his goal and Jadon Sancho’s performance: “It was brilliant from Emi but it highlights Jadon\u2019s
\nperformance, his best in a Villa shirt. He was man of the match tonight by a
\nmile. The manager was giving me grief before the game to make sure I get in the
\nbox and he gave it to me.<\/p>\n
“They defended very well in the first half but we
\ndid go a bit more direct in the second half, the manager tweaked it and it paid
\ndividends.”<\/p>\n
On his return from injury: “It is difficult when the team is not doing well and you\u2019re
\nin the physio room. I got over it pretty quickly, I knew it could have been
\nmore serious and I just wanted to do my rehab properly. I\u2019ve made mistakes
\nbefore, trying to cut corners with rehab but I didn\u2019t do that this time.”<\/p>\n
On goal target for this season: “I never used to set goal targets but the manager sets
\ntargets on the forward players. I want to try to target 10 goals every season,
\nI\u2019ve not managed to do that yet but hopefully this season is the year. It is up
\non us forward players and wide players to take the pressure off Ollie [Watkins].”<\/p>\n
On Martinez: “He\u2019s a mad man. I know he\u2019s a family man but he is a big kid
\ninside, a lively character and a top goalkeeper but even at 2-0 he made a great
\nsave. <\/p>\n
“It was great to get a clean sheet, good performance and send the Villa
\nfans home happy. Hopefully it is the same on Sunday.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Jadon was man of the match’ – McGinnpublished at 22:23 GMT 22:23 GMT Aston Villa 2-0 Lille (agg…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-533641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533641","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=533641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}