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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Jonathan Wilson

Aston Villa rally to put Leeds in trouble with classy double from Morgan Rogers

Matty Cash congratulates Morgan Rogers on his superb free-kick, which proved Aston Villa’s winner.
Matty Cash (right) congratulates Morgan Rogers on his superb free-kick, which proved Aston Villa’s winner. Photograph: Chris Radburn/Reuters

Five defeats in six and the anxiety is beginning to show for Leeds. For the second game in a row they took an early lead through Lukas Nmecha but ended up with nothing, Morgan Rogers producing a pair of remarkable finishes to lift Aston Villa into the Champions League qualification slots. Leeds remain in the relegation zone.

“Performance-wise we’ve turned back to what we want to be,” said Daniel Farke. “We should’ve taken some points from this game. We are not back to our best. We can still improve, but at the end we are just disappointed we did not get any points.” Given the way Leeds faded in the second half and their lack of guile throughout, that was perhaps an overly sanguine reading.

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