{"id":148567,"date":"2025-10-27T23:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148567\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T23:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T23:16:10","slug":"alan-shearer-waxes-lyrical-about-aston-villa-star-who-bossed-vs-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148567\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Shearer waxes lyrical about Aston Villa star who &#8216;bossed&#8217; vs Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-Insets-98-1140x641.jpg\" class=\"attachment-single-feature size-single-feature wp-post-image\" alt=\"Alan Shearer holding mic with Aston Villa badge in frame\" layout=\"fill\"  style=\"object-position: 50% 20%\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Imago<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761606969_280_00b64913d297112f0119828c00681b23\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" alt=\"Josh Edwards\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p> Mon 27 October 2025 18:40, UK <\/p>\n<p><strong>Aston Villa secured an impressive yet crucial victory at home to Man City on Sunday<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astonvillanews.co.uk\/tag\/unai-emery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unai Emery<\/a>\u2018s side had a very slow start to the campaign, but their fortunes have changed significantly over the last few weeks. <\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astonvillanews.co.uk\/2025\/10\/26\/aston-villa-player-ratings-vs-manchester-city-john-mcginn-excellent-4-10-terrible-again\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aston Villa\u2019s 1-0 victory against Man City<\/a>, the Villans have now won six of their last seven in all competitions and have gone unbeaten in their last six Premier League games.<\/p>\n<p>Several players emerged from the clash with praise, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astonvillanews.co.uk\/tag\/alan-shearer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Shearer<\/a> was particularly impressed with one player, and the stats show exactly why.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/unai-emery-3-1024x675.jpg\" alt=\"Aston Villa manager Unai Emery looking happy while clapping\" class=\"wp-image-59943\" \/>Credit: ImagoTwo Aston Villa stars named in Premier League Team of the Week<\/p>\n<p>After such an impressive win against a side often referred to as the best in the world, praise is always going to come the way of those who were influential in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astonvillanews.co.uk\/club\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aston Villa<\/a>\u2018s triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierleague.com\/en\/news\/4449440\/shearers-team-of-the-week-xhaka-produced-a-midfield-masterclass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Premier League<\/a> site, Shearer has named both Matty Cash and Amadou Onana in his Team of the Week, and it will come as no surprise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astonvillanews.co.uk\/2025\/10\/21\/how-matty-cash-won-the-aston-villa-fans-back-as-new-contract-reaches-final-stages\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cash scored a remarkable goal for Aston Vill<\/a>a to secure all three points, while Onana was dominant in the middle of the park against some elite opposition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63131\" \/><\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-links multi\">\n<li>Shearer on <strong>Cash<\/strong>: \u201cScored a goal that any forward would be proud of! Showed excellent composure to shift the ball onto his left foot before rifling it into the bottom corner.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Shearer on <strong>Onana<\/strong>: \u201cAbsolutely bossed the midfield, constantly shutting down\u00a0Man City\u2019s attacks and helping his side to play their way out of trouble in an impressive victory at Villa Park.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cash certainly deserves attention for his display, but Onana was on another level.<\/p>\n<p>Just how good was Amadou Onana vs ManCity?<\/p>\n<p>In short, incredible.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it was his on-the-ball work or his desire off of it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astonvillanews.co.uk\/2025\/10\/26\/the-numbers-that-show-why-amadou-onana-was-aston-villas-most-important-player-vs-man-city\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Onana was simply at the heart of everything Aston Villa achieved<\/a> against Pep Guardiola\u2019s side, and his stats were stunning.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fotmob.com\/en-GB\/matches\/manchester-city-vs-aston-villa\/2w74gq?player=1185748#4813457:tab=lineup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">FotMob<\/a>, the Belgian completed a remarkable 98 per cent of his 43 attempted passes, which equates to just one misplaced pass.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-links multi\">\n<li>42 completed passes<\/li>\n<li>11 defensive contributions<\/li>\n<li>Four passes into the final third<\/li>\n<li>Six duels won<\/li>\n<li>Four blocks made<\/li>\n<li>Three tackles won<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All four of his attempted long balls reached their desired target, with 58 touches in total throughout the clash.<\/p>\n<p>Defensively, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astonvillanews.co.uk\/tag\/amadou-onana\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Onana<\/a> won six of his seven ground duels and completed four blocks and three tackles in the process.<\/p>\n<p>If he can keep up this level of performance, Villa will keep moving forward without a shadow of a doubt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enjoyed this article?<\/strong> Stay connected with all the latest Aston Villa news, updates, and behind-the-scenes content by following us on our new Instagram account \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/villanews247\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@villanews247<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: Imago Mon 27 October 2025 18:40, UK Aston Villa secured an impressive yet crucial victory at home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1269,87415,18,19,17,87046,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-148567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-alan-shearer","9":"tag-amadou-onana","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-matty-cash","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115448683631277177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}