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Club Brugge awarded a penalty after Tyrone Mings handled the ball after a short kick-out from Emi Martinez!
It's tucked away by Vanaken and Brugge lead 1-0!#CLUAVL | #UCL pic.twitter.com/zVckb322SY
UNAI EMERY HAS said Tyrone Mings’ calamitous gaffe which condemned Aston Villa to Champions League defeat at Club Brugge was the biggest mistake he has witnessed in his managerial career.
The centre-back inexplicably picked up a short goal-kick by Emiliano Martinez without knowing referee Tobias Stieler had restarted the game.
Brugge captain Hans Vanaken converted the resulting 52nd-minute penalty to earn a 1-0 victory for the Belgian champions and end Villa’s three-game winning start to life in the Champions League.
It was a moment of madness by Mings, making his first start in the competition, but he may feel hard done by as Arsenal defender Gabriel was spared in the exact same circumstances against Bayern Munich in last season’s quarter-final.
On that occasion Swedish referee Glenn Nyberg did not penalise, saying it was a “kid’s mistake” and not in the spirit of the game to award a penalty.
Stieler did not have the same outlook and Mings was punished.
“His mistake is completely strange,” Emery said. “It’s the biggest mistake I witnessed in my career.
“We can make a mistake in the build up, we work to try and control the games through keeping possession and trying to stop the possession and we did that in the first half fantastic.
“We lost one or two balls, but we were always in the position to recover, but this mistake is very, very strange.
“It’s not for Mings or Martinez, it’s one mistake that’s strange. It’s only happened one time in all my life.”
F@#kin ejit
@robbie Delaney: ….if I could give you
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Tobias Stieler you legend. Great call.
Reminds me of the time Mark Murphy did the same thing in the Meath and District league….after the game we told him to eff off and never come back ….what kind of a tool does that?
Some people seem to think an honest mistake like this shouldn’t be punished for “fair play” reasons.. absolute bllox.. if you’re going to make a stupid mistake live with the consequences!
I don’t know why they all look surprised. The dude picks up the ball in his own box.
@Brian Dunne: 100% pen all day long hopefully Premier league refs start calling it with Arsenal especially.
Emery obviously wasn’t watching Michael Olivers shocker decision awarding West Ham that peno against Man Utd a couple of weeks back. Worst decision ever
Had Mings a few quid on..