Lhe Club Brugge can say a big thank you to Tyrone Mings because if the Blauw en Zwart took three precious points against Aston Villa, it was thanks to a huge ball from the English defender. Hans Vanaken crucified the Villans by converting the penalty offered, while the British press took charge of destroying the author of the foul.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” exclaims a Sky Sports journalist. “He takes the ball in his hands, and seems not to see what happened just before. He appears surprised, which isn’t really a good thing in pro football. »
“Mings offers a bizarre penalty to Club Brugge and Aston Villa loses”, headlines The Guardian on its site. “There was barely a whisper when Emiliano Martínez took a goal kick short five minutes into the second half. Seconds later, Club Brugge supporters began to applaud wildly when Tyrone Mings made a mistake that was as memorable as it was regrettable. »
“Brain freeze”
“A childish mistake,” comments Mark Halsey, a former English referee, to The Sun. “The referee has no choice but to award this penalty because the ball is in play and it is a childish mistake on the part of Tyrone Mings. It’s just incredible for a player of his caliber to do that. He must look himself in the face and ask himself: ‘But what could I have done?’”
“A Champions League debut to forget,” wrote a BBC journalist. “Lauded before the match, he ended up making headlines after conceding one of the strangest penalties the competition has ever seen. » “Brain freeze,” commented another journalist from the British channel while former striker Peter Crouch described the gesture as a “moment of madness”.
“It’s a very, very strange mistake, but that’s football,” said Unai Emery, Aston Villa coach. “We have to forget it quickly. This is the biggest mistake I have witnessed in my career. This mistake won’t happen again for a long time – I don’t think it will in my lifetime. »
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