For Aston Villa, keeping the ball out of their own net has become akin to keeping an ice cube frozen in Hell. They were relegated from the Premier League after giving up an astonishing 76 goals last year, and they’ve now somehow managed to ship three goals to League Two side Luton.
The pick of the bunch was certainly Luton’s third — a calamitous own goal scored by Villa's Jores Okore. Under absolutely no pressure whatsoever, the Denmark center back somehow managed to cooly tuck away an opponent’s cross into his own net.
Villa’s subsequent elimination in the 2016-17 Football League Cup to a side two divisions beneath their own comes directly after their chairman, Dr. Tony Xia, proclaimed his vision of Villa being the top club in Europe in the next five years.
There’s a lot of work to be done in Birmingham.
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