Simply 5 days after Villa Park roared Aston Villa to within the Champions League, they have been introduced again right down to earth by being denied a deserved victory.
Any sense of frustration exhibits how far have come within the two years since Unai Emery changed Steven Gerrard as supervisor.
Villa have been 10 seconds away from including to their checklist of defeated opponents at Villa Park this month following well-known victories and Bologna.
However Bournemouth substitute Evanilson had different concepts, the £40 million report signing from Porto heading dwelling Marcus Tavernier’s free-kick within the 96th minute to make it an unlikely 4 factors over eight days after final weekend’s .
Half-time substitute Ross Barkley thought he had clinched a vastly deserved win within the 76th minute to reward Villa’s dominance.
“We wanted to focus in defence and be robust, like we normally are,” the Aston Villa supervisor Unai Emery mentioned.
“However they scored and we’re annoyed as a result of we deserved to win.
“There’s nonetheless work to do as a result of we’re making an attempt to get a powerful mentality, in addition to being robust in our construction, and emotionally.
“Emotionally if you find yourself 1-0 up within the final minute and also you suppose the three factors are essential… we didn’t management it.
“We have now to be taught, the gamers must be taught and we’ve got to concentrate on that as a part of our course of.”
Bournemouth goalkeeper Mark Travers, who changed the injured Kepa Arrizabalaga, made a string of saves to maintain his facet within the recreation.
Villa thought that they had taken the lead within the twenty eighth minute when John McGinn curled dwelling a magnificence from simply contained in the field however VAR dominated the ball had crept out of play earlier than Ollie Watkins lower the ball again for the Scot.
Emery had no problem with this, insisting referee Chris Kavanagh had a “unbelievable” recreation.
Villa’s much-deserved breakthrough got here when Barkley slid dwelling after fellow substitute Leon Bailey nodded down a cross from Ian Maatsen – one other substitute.
Then got here the late, late drama because the guests pinched a degree.
“Mark saved us within the recreation in tough moments,” mentioned Bournemouth supervisor Andoni Iraola. “I believe they performed higher than us, so I used to be comfortable to attain within the final minute at a really tough place.”