Mister Rogers' Villa Park

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Soccer, Sports

4.2 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The FC crew looks back at Aston Villa's 2-1 win over Man United with Morgan Rogers bagging 2 goals. Plus, the crew discusses the reported leg injury of British record signing Alexander Isak & how it will affect Liverpool. And, discussion of a few of the controversial refereeing decisions in the Premier League this week. Also, Barcelona & Bayern Munich take care of business in their respective leagues & AFCON kicks off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.1	Hello, welcome into the latest edition of ESPNFC.
0:36.8	Kay Murray and Craig Burley here in the studio, kicking things off in the Premier League today at Villa Park where Aston Villa took on Manchester United.
0:44.3	We saw Bruno Fernandez get hurt in the first half. He didn't come out for the second half, but the game really came to life just before half time when in the 44th minute Morgan Rogers
0:54.6	scored a special goal to put Villa ahead however Matthias Cunia responded pretty
0:59.1	swiftly after that in the first half Mati Cash was caught in possession
1:02.9	Cunia punished taking it to the second half Morgan Rogers would strike again in
1:07.4	the 57th minute it's his fourth goal in two games he's absolutely flying
1:12.0	as our villa who stay third back to within three points of Arsenal as for
1:16.3	Manchester United they spent Christmas in seventh missing the chance to move
1:20.4	above Liverpool in fifth in the table let's now welcome in Frank Leboff and Ian
1:25.1	Dark to talk more about the game let's bring in Ian Ian's Dark. Frank LaBoff is with us as well. We have to start by talking about Villa and just what they're doing right now and what Morgan Rogers is doing too, Craig. Yeah, well Villa didn't play well today. And they have that in them now and again, but they ground the result out. United, with a better side, United pressed.
1:45.4	But Villa found a way their passing was a little disjointed, they were a little hurried.
1:50.1	And maybe that was down to United, who probably had one of their better performances in defeat with a lot of injuries and suspensions to Casamiro.
1:58.6	But Villa ground this one out, and when you have a player with the capabilities of Morgan Rogers from Euro Club. Yes, half a season. Middlesbrough, half a season up there. He's a strong runner with the ball. He's physical. He's really adding that end product. Great goals. Goals scoring to his game. He's such a big threat. He's so difficult to sort of knock off the ball. He can
2:18.0	play in several positions and the two goals he scored. I mean, there was nothing in the game,
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