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Ollie Watkins ends goal drought as Villa strengthen Champions League grip
Villa spurned a glorious chance to double their lead when Watkins and Morgan Rogers exchanged passes in the box only for the left leg of Mads Hermansen to deny Watkins from 10 yards.
Paul Tierney awarded Villa a penalty on 27 minutes following a challenge by Konstantinos Mavropanos on Watkins in the box after both Rogers and McGinn failed to capitalise on the advantage played.
However, VAR Stuart Attwell sent Tierney to the pitch-side monitor and the referee overturned his original decision with it deemed Mavropanos had played the ball.
Mavropanos came to West Ham’s rescue again moments later when he somehow managed to head Rogers’s point-blank volley off the line.
Villa eventually doubled their lead after the break as Hermansen could only parry Rogers’s shot into the path of Watkins, who slid to turn the ball home for his first goal at Villa Park since January.
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