Aston Villa authorized upward their 13th Premier League residence win in a row as Ollie Watkins racked upward over again in a 3-1 triumph over Fulham at Villa Park.
Villa were two purposes upward at the reprieve coordinating with an Antonee Robinson horribly own-ambition and a blow from skipper John McGinn.
Fulham came close early in the second half as shortly as Emiliano Martinez tipped a Raul Jimenez shot versus a post in the past Watkins added a 3rd for the hosts with a 64th-minute layer.
Jimenez lugged a ambition recommend for the viewers, but Villa were not to be refuted as they amounted to the post-war nightclub documents for successive top-flight residence triumphs, rivalling the 13 in a row procured in 1983.
Emery’s side have racked upward at least 3 times in each of their Villa Park victories this period, with the unabbreviated being 23 purposes for the midlands garb throughout the six galleries.
It was in addition a rejoinder to winsome approaches in the league after last Sunday’s 2-0 loss at Nottingham Woodland, deeming that as shortly as they had outdoed AZ Alkmaar 2-1 at residence in the Europa Meeting League.
While 5th-added Villa are a time outward the top four, Marco Silva’s Fulham are 16th after their winless run in the league long term to a fourth video game.
The residence side rendered a wizard start to the competition and after Moussa Diaby had a sixth-minute campaign saved by Bernd Leno, one more Villa assail moments later saw Watkins’ shot come off Timothy Castagne and referee Simon Hooper distinction a fine.
Yet, VAR interfered and with Hooper having investigated video pitchside, the handball judgment was overturned.
Martinez was after that contacted into reaction to hold recommend out an Andreas Pereira blow, although the flag was upward for offside, in the past Emery’s males pressed ahead over again and took the lead in the 27th minute.
Youri Tielemans, administering his initially league start for Villa, curled a distribution from the disclaimed in the direction of Diaby and the ball went off Robinson into the net – the protector’s second horribly own-ambition of the period, having in addition racked upward one in Fulham’s win versus Sheffield Unified last month.
As Villa sought a second, Matty Silver greenbacks money was refuted by Leno, and the worthiness was increased in the 42nd minute as McGinn collected the ball from a Robinson header, took a touch to move away from Joao Palhinha and fired in from merely outward the box.
Fulham launched faultlessly after the period and almost devalued the deficiency 3 minutes in as shortly as a Martinez touch veered Jimenez’s blow versus a post, with Willian nailing over on the heed-upward.
There was in addition a shot merely wide of the foreseeable post from Willian, but shortly after Villa rendered it 3-0 as Leon Bailey, merely off the pew, gone across and Watkins sidefooted in his 11th nightclub ambition of the period in with one voice rivals.
Jimenez amassed a the horribly same layer, teed upward by Robinson in the 70th minute, to amenable his Fulham account – his initially Premier League ambition deeming that March 2022.
Contingency Carlos Vinicius presumed he had racked upward one more for Fulham in the 81st minute as shortly as he went roughly Martinez and slotted in, but he was flagged offside, in the past the ball hit the Fulham pub off Palhinha and Watkins spearheaded the loose ball wide as shortly as peeking particular to rating – a gorgeous miss out on that mattered little come the final whistle.
