Steve Crossman

I know.

It's his seventh Europa League semi-final and he's progressed now on five occasions.

He did look relaxed, as you say, on the final whistle.

But did you see his celebration after the Buendia penalty, the second goal?

he went down on one knee and i thought he was actually punching the ground he was he was that if you pardon the pun pumped up and i think that was probably a release because he knew that was the decisive goal once villa then had got a stranglehold on the tie with taking the lead for the first time um i thought his tactics were spot on that change of system in the first leg they'd gone with the uh

The back four last week, he went to a three today.

Lindelof was superb.

Not just marshalling that back three, but stepping into midfield.

That was something that you picked up in the first half, Dion.

Yeah, and I think it's okay, the gaffer having all the tactics and setting up his team right.

He has to do that, that's his job.

But you've got to do it to the letter.

You've got to trust the manager and the way that he thinks that it's best for you to play.

Even though you have individual bits of skill you've got to take into consideration, it's a team game.

If we do it together as a team, we'll be a juggernaut tonight.

And honestly, I've not seen Villa play like that for a long time.

Not as convincing as that anyway.

And speaking of the team, let's spend a bit of time talking about Emi Buendia, because the number of conversations we have about Aston Villa, I mean, especially because they play in Europe, you're on our Premier League Sunday show.

We talk about all the time because we have loads and loads of Aston Villa commentaries and the number of conversations we have about players like Martinez and about Watkins and about McGinn and about Rodgers.

And there's probably two or three other.