Aston Villa 2-1 Tottenham: Villa break FA Cup hoodoo

This can be very laborious to imagine that Aston Villa haven’t been within the hat for the fifth spherical draw of the FA Cup since 2015.

However now they’re there, they’re trying like severe contenders to make it to Wembley with Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea all out and Manchester Metropolis not at their glowing greatest.

Unai Emery’s aspect are by to the final 16 of the Champions League, have an opportunity of securing a spot in Europe as soon as once more by way of the Premier League and are stuffed with confidence.

Villa began their match in opposition to Tottenham stuffed with depth and intent as they took the lead in simply 57 seconds by Jacob Ramsey – with the assistance of some poor goalkeeping from Antonin Kinsky.

The hosts missed a quantity probabilities so as to add a second and so they lastly managed that within the second half when Rogers obtained his title on the scoresheet for the eleventh time this time period.

Marcus Rashford’s introduction for the primary time in Villa colors sparked Villa Park additional into life as he hustled and harried the Spurs defence.

Villa will definitely be a workforce to keep away from as soon as the draw for the fifth spherical is made on Monday night.

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