📸 Aston Villa concede bizarre penalty to ship first UCL goal 😳

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Chloe Digby·6 November 2024

📸 Aston Villa concede bizarre penalty to ship first UCL goal 😳

Aston Villa have conceded their first goal in the Champions League this season in the strangest of circumstances.

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The Premier League outfit have impressed so far, with wins over Young Boys, Bayern Munich and Bologna without having let in a single goal.

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Yet this evening, goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez took a short goal kick, which Tyrone Mings – on his Champions League debut – inexplicably picked up and placed back on the spot.

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He argued that the ball was not live, but there was no doubt in the referee's mind that this was a penalty.

Stranger Mings! 😮 Bizarre scenes in Bruges as Tyrone Mings picks up a goal kick inside the box and it's judged as handball. Hans Vanaken converts from the penalty spot. #BBCFootball #UCL
– Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Can Villa bounce back despite this bizarre setback?

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