Aston Villa: Jhon Duran Transfer and Ollie Watkins Partnership in Focus in front of West Ham Clash | Football news
“I am dedicated to get the best out of it. I want him here.”
These were the words Unai Emery when asked about Jhon Duran after the victory of the weekend Aston Villa in West Ham.
The attacker came off the bench instead of Ollie Watkins, hit the winner of the villa and apologized to the passenger fans at the London stadium.
It was only a few weeks since Duran, who made a sign of ‘ironing’ during Live Stream, while West Ham continued to move for Colombian – but it seemed that the demonstration of the villa fans spoke for which the team in Claret and Blue wanted to play.
However, while the sides are preparing for a re -meeting, to live on Sky Sports on SundayDuran and a potential move in West Ham re -create titles.
Earlier this week, Villa rejected an offer of £ 57m for 21-year-olds from London. Returning in August, Emery admitted that the club was open to the “good offer” for Duran and that remains – but Durana has grown.
This season he scored 12 goals in 28 appearances, including the belittling against Bayern Munich in the Champions League. Of the players who have repeatedly hit the Premier League net this season, he has the best strike in 90 minutes.
It is significant that Duran also put a pen on paper on a new mansion contract in the days after that Bayern Screamer, a contract that lasts until 2030.
West Ham is not the only club in search of the frontman of the goalkeeper in this window, and Durar’s skill player is missing. “Centers that can score goals are worth more than that,” he said Sky Sports Pundit and former Arsenal frontman Alan Smith after an offer of £ 57 million was rejected.
And yet, Duran remains something from the puzzle for Emery and Villa.
Returning to that Saturday, the Spanish coach effectively used the attributes of Watkins and Duran.
The English man, briefly on the condition after his delayed return from the Euro campaign, stretched hammers for the first hour. Then Duran arrived to finish them.
“Today we have prepared a plan to use both Watkins and Duran for 90 minutes, and they have done a fantastic job,” Emery said in that press conference after the match.
The ‘Super Sub’ became Durana stickers in the weeks that followed, as decisively late fall against Leicester and Everton, and then to seal the points against wolves, underlined the difference that could make the exploitation of the defense that Watkins softened.
But Duran is an ambitious young man. “Patience has never been my thing,” he said Heavenly sports’ Natalie Gedra in November, during an incredibly sincere interview.
“I mean [Watkins] is at his moment and you have to respect [him] Because it has numbers, doing work, there is everything, there is an understanding, experience. And I think I’m on the way to that. I’m on my way to being at a level. “
It looked like he cut that opportunity in December in December with three goals in three consecutive PREMIER League starts, including a win over Man City.
But what seemed to be an unhappy red card for Duran in Newcastle, he saw Watkins returning to XI.
Surely, there must be a way to use their talents together? If there is, Emery has yet to be found.
In 35 games they were on the field together, scoring only eight goals. They are an unusual striking force in becoming weaker than the sums of their parts when they are assembled.
More concern about Emery, playing two above also undermines the foundations and strength of the team behind them. Villa lost 13 of those 35 games and won only 10.
“The last 20 or 25 minutes, when we played with two attackers, we lost positioning,” Emery said after throwing Duran to join Watkins while Villa sought the equalizer in their harmful loss of the Champions League in Monaco on Tuesday.
“It was my mistake when we played with two attackers because we lost positioning. We lost control of the game. We were very weak in the middle.”
Expect Emery to start only one of them this weekend. Watkins is most likely.
But five months from the reverse solidification with West Ham, Duran and his role, potential and future remain in the spotlight.
Watch Aston Villa Vs West Ham live in the Sky Sports Premier League on Sunday from 4pm; Start from 4.30pm.
