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Hello, welcome back to 1874. I'm Dan Bardell here live straight after the game as Villa

have gone to Italy and won in the first leg of their Europa League quarterfinal, beating Bologna,

3 won some late drama, but Villa have come out the right side of it.

Really, really interesting game. A lot going on. I'm really, really impressed with Villa tonight. So I'm going to be here live talking about the game for the next 15 to 20 minutes with you, the 1874 public. Plenty of people joining me now who want to celebrate Villa's victory in that first leg and talk about it with me. So thank you very much. This show is sponsored by

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on to them a little bit later in the show. Good evening to everyone that is joining me live. Thank you very much for

joining me this evening. I haven't actually done a live for a long time. I mean, it's been a long time since Villa I've had a game, hasn't it? But yeah, I haven't done it for a long time. So I'm feeling very, very rusty. It was feeling particularly rusty in the setup. But actually, I was about to say no such rustiness from

Aston Villa Football Club, but actually in the

first half we did get away with a couple in the setup. But actually, I was about to say no such rustiness from Aston Villa Football Club,

but actually in the first half, we did get away with a couple of things, which I'll talk

about again shortly.

But by the end of it, I thought it was a really, really mature performance from Villa.

I really, really impressed with what we did in the second half.

The commentary team about Adam Summerton and Lucy Ward, they alluded to

a couple of times on TNT, the Villa are becoming almost experts in Europe, now the fact that

they've got the experience in three competitions. I thought we readied ourselves, steadied ourselves

in the second half and putting a really, really mature display, as I've said. And look, I've been the biggest defender of Ollie Watkins has probably been. And then just as I start to, not turn on him, but just as I start to question him and say, maybe it's time for him to come out the team, he scores in the last Premier League game against West Ham. And then he's got a really, really important double tonight. and his third goal, second and third goal in the Europa League this season,

but two really, really important goals in Villa's quest for silverware and trophy glory.

I mean, the chat is absolutely flying through.

As Dean Avery says, I'm up against Rollo.

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