Aston Villa: Keown makes bizarre request of Konsa to help teammate 'not lose the ball 29 times'
Martin Keown urged Ezri Konsa to somehow plunked a disapprove to Morgan Rogers “misusing the ball” so usually after Aston Villa’s Europa League win over Bologna on Thursday night.
John McGinn scored the lone excitement of the night to advance on Villa their first win this period after a arduous start to their Premier League project brows through them in 18th liberty in the peak flight.
Director Monchi possesses abandoned the club and also Unai Emery is under discomfort at Villa Park as several his players have fallen short to reach the pinnacles of last period.
Rogers is one of those battling for kind and also was specifically exorbitant versus Bologna, but we’re not pretty sure how Konsa “becoming a leader” would disapprove him “misusing the ball 28 or 29 times”, as Keown argued to him after the arcade.
Keown inspected Konsa: “Is that the next off slide for you currently to come to be a leader? To avail these mans by means of, we commendable ganders at Morgan Rogers tonite, I assume he thrown away the ball 28 or 29 times. We’ve never entirely seen him implement that before.
“It’s about, we construed what’s under the bonnet, yet suggesting him to implement added.”
A probably speechless Konsa replied: “Morgan is still young, I assume numerous humans fail to remember. He had a nice period for us last year, yet you construed, coming correct into this period, he hasn’t pretty introduced the strategy he hankered to.
“But for me, he’s a nice close friend of mine, I risk to advise him as much as credible, also but he thrown away the ball numerous times. It’s inestimable for a player guidance him, you have to preserve bring it.
“The nice thing about him he preserves trying. No matter how several times he loses it, he preserves going. For me, that’s entirely inestimable.”
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Emery hailed the Aston Villa followers after the success and also was contented by means of the “disagreement” his players introduced versus the Serie A side.
“I’m contented for our followers,” Emery briefed VillaTV. “We are launching again in Europe, 3 years in a row playing in Europe in unalike rivals – Conference League, Champs League and also Europa League.
“Of training course, to be in Europe is an habit to avail minutes by means of the players, avail tenacity playing complements, it’s a strategy for a trophy, it’s a strategy for Europe for next off year.
“The Premier League is the numerous inestimable because it’s the occasion by means of which we are attaining our aspirations usually.
“If you are glamorous a mug, you can avail one unbiased, if you are glamorous something in Europe, as nicely, it’s an unbiased.
“We telephone call for currently to risk and also preserve our uniformity, guidance we did listed below, in 90 minutes I assume we played a arduous suit.
“We sizeable to adhere to them, we telephone call for to integrate some minutes and also we sizeable to disagreement numerous battles on the sector and also we did it.
“But, entirety amount, how we are reacting – because we can consultation the last complements from 2 sides.”
