Aston Villa boss Unai Emery rages over Jhon Duran red card at Newcastle
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Furious Aston Villa boss Unai Emery vowed to appeal against Jhon Duran’s red card after seeing his side slip to a 3-0 Premier League defeat on a stormy afternoon at Newcastle. Villa were already trailing to Anthony Gordon’s early strike when the Colombia international was shown a straight red card by referee Anthony Taylor for stamping on Magpies defender Fabian Schar 13 minutes before the break, in the process strengthening the hosts’ grip on the game.
Villa boss Emery was incensed on the touchline and could not understand why VAR had not intervened. Asked if he thought it was a red card, the Spaniard said: “For me, not. For me, not. It was completely not. “I can accept maybe the other team asking for a red card, okay. But VAR please, and confirm it because the punishment now is three matches.
“His reaction after with the player over him was ‘sorry, sorry’. Then we can try to analyse if he kicked him or not. I think he didn’t kick him on purpose. “Of course we are going to appeal and hopefully it’s not three matches because it’s a very big punishment for this action.”.
Duran’s premature exit was not the afternoon’s only dismissal, with Newcastle’s assistant head coach Jason Tindall and Villa’s lead analyst Victor Manas also receiving their marching orders in the tunnel at half-time amid a scene described as a “20-man melee” by one of the broadcasters who had access.
