Tyrone Mings escapes being shown a red card for an elbow which fractured Alex Scott’s jaw in Aston Villa’s win over Bournemouth.
Scott, 21, suffered a fractured jaw from a “very violent” elbow by Aston Villa’s Tyrone Mings in the sixth minute.
Scott received lengthy treatment, continued playing, but was substituted at half time after an incident with Amadou Onana.
Aston Villa played with 10 men after Jacob Ramsey was shown a second yellow with 10 minutes remaining but Bournemouth couldn’t find the net.
Alex Scott has posted this on Instagram in response to Tyrone Mings controversially escaping a red card today for an elbow to the face…
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Villa’s Mings with an elbow into the face of the Bournemouth player
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Opposing fans saying Mings knew what he was doing
Get a grip, when you watch it back Alex Scott throws himself into Mings trying to reach the ball as Mings is there first, he can’t help where his arms are at this point. There’s nothing malicious in it at all.#avfc pic.twitter.com/jQgVZlaZBW
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“The second yellow that Ramsey received is not a second yellow,” Iraola told BBC Sport. “Tyrone Mings knows what he is doing, he knew where Alex was. It was very violent.
“The value of a red card in the sixth minute or the 80th minute is very different. He sees Alex coming and for me it is very dangerous.
“I hope he can finish the season but I really don’t know. He was almost knocked out. After the elbow we didn’t know if he could continue. He wanted to continue but he was not 100%. It [was] a very violent elbow.”
On Match of the Day, the pundits spoke about the incident with Ashley Williams saying: “I don’t think he means it. But only Tyrone Mings knows.
“I think it is the height difference in this. Mings does have a little look to see where the pressure is coming from and puts his arm out to protect the ball. It’s a nasty collision.”
Shay Given added: “I kind of disagree. I think he knows what he’s doing a little bit. He does have a look at him. He doesn’t swing the elbow but he straight arms him across the jaw.”
“I think he knows what he’s doing.”
Should Tyrone Mings have been sent off for his elbow on Alex Scott?
@No1shaygiven believes so
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“It’s not a red card for me at all.”
Jamie Redknapp and Lee Hendrie agree Tyrone Mings’ challenge on Alex Scott shouldn’t have been a red and didn’t warrant a sending off
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Unai Emery saod to BBC Match of the Day: “I am very proud of the team and grateful for the owners and the way they are supporting us and are ambitious. They are very focused in different competitions and achieving different objectives and the most important for us is the Premier League to once again get Europe. We are in the run for it and we are competing today with the demands we are increasing in the dressing room. The players, we try to get out of our pressure something positive.
“It is the best competition in the world and we are winning matches and we can be a good contender. We are winning to try and be there. The first objective is to try and play in Europe again and we are feeling comfortable with the pressure we are setting ourselves. We are fighting with Manchester City and Chelsea and we fight for Europe.”
On Ollie Watkins: “Fantastic. Brilliant. We are here, collectively achieving our objective. Ollie Watkins is fantastic. He played consistently here and he is very humble. Trying to improve every day sand he is not relaxing. He played fantastic. We were very demanding how we we needed to press them and threaten them.
“We did it collectively and over 90 minutes very good work. We did not concede a lot of chances. But how we compete and defend, I am so proud of them.”
Emery speaking to Sky Sports: “The players compete very well. It’s difficult here because Bournemouth are performing fantastic. We are in Europe. Champions League, Europa League or Conference League. Of course we want to try to get our best dreams of playing Champions League again but there are teams in front of us. With this victory we now have the possibility to get it.
On qualifying for Europe: “We have to play Tottenham at home and we must focus on this game. Of course it is important. We have to do our work and do it like we did today. To play in Europe for the third year in a row, I am so happy.
On surviving with ten men: “I told the players we needed to focus for 90 minutes and injury time. Don’t watch the result or the time because we need to focus. If we can score the second goal even better. We needed the defence, the clean sheet was very important. They had some chances, especially at end but we had 10 players and we kept a clean sheet.
On Cash’s late clearance: “We dominated the first half and had chances to score. Then they had the opportunity to get something, then we needed the goalkeeper and Cash to help.
On Watkins breaking Villa’s Premier League scoring record: “Very good of course. Achieving this for Ollie Watkins is fantastic. Through it we are also taking more points and winning today but we are also trying to set the objectives and achieving it like we did today with Watkins.
On Villa’s momentum: “We are so motivated. We are finishing the season but we have the ambitious objective in front of us. We are the third year here in a row getting Europe, it’s fantastic. I don’t want to finish the season, I want to recover the players and then think about Tottenham at home.”
On facing Tottenham: “Focus on this match. Recover, then rest. Focus goes on Friday against Tottenham at home at Villa Park.”
“It’s a VERY dangerous challenge.”
Andoni Iraola shares his concern over Tyrone Mings’ challenge on Alex Scott
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Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola speaking to Sky Sports: “We are in a worse position than we were a couple of hours ago but we have to keep fighting. The things were happening for them and they managed the game better overall. Second half we threatened more but we couldn’t score and couldn’t take those chances.
“For me, I don’t know if Alex’s jaw is broken or not broken. We didn’t know if he could continue or not but you could see straight away he was not ok. It was a dangerous challenge. But on the other side, I think the second yellow for Ramsey was not one. But a red card in the 80th minute is very different to one in the sixth minute.”
“They defended very compact and it is difficult to find spaces. There were moments when we found good transitions and situations and this time was very short.
“We are in a great position in a fight that we would have hoped for before the season. We have lost eighth spot and then we have to keep an eye on other things.”
Iraola speaking to BBC Match of the Day: “I think the game has gone more similar to the one they wanted to play. I think in the first half it was a lot of stop and go and not a lot of rhythm. It hasn’t been enough for us. Overall I think they managed better. We haven’t been able to punish them.
“We need to manage better the small things. It is a very experienced team and probably they have competed better than us. For us the situation changes. Now we are behind some teams and we have to wait on some results and make sure we recover and finish the season well.
“We want to be in this fight and we have to continue. We don’t know where we are going to finish but we have to keep going.
On Adam Smith reaching 400 games: “We are talking about big numbers. You have to be here in the good moments, bad moments. Adam trains very well and long term, the players who get these numbers it is not just a coincidence.”
Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins speaking to Sky Sports: “Bournemouth are a great team here at home and they don’t give you much space. They put us under a lot of pressure and Morgan [Rogers] has put it on a plate really.
“I think it is massive for us. There are a lot of teams that are pushing for Champions League spots and it is going down to the wire. Getting that goal to break the record for this club is massive and something I had my eye on when I came to the club. I said it in my first interview and it is a great achievement for me.
“I think when I came back from the Euros, I saw how demanding it is. I take my hat off to the lads that do that every year. Mentally for me, it was really difficult. It takes a toll on your body. I felt like I didn’t have that much power this year and I have kept plugging away and I have a bit of rhythm.”
On England spots: “I think everyone wants to play for their country. With England we have so many unbelievable players to choose from. To be called up is unbelievable and is something I want to do.
On the Champions League race: “It is massive Going down to 10 men and them putting a lot of pressure on us. Our away form hasn’t been great and it is massive and we will be watching the game tomorrow. We need to make sure we win the last two games and it is in our hands to do that.”
Bournemouth defender Dean Huijsen speaking to Sky Sports: “I think we concede an easy goal. We created some chances but we couldn’t really finish them. We dominated for most of the game but it is what it is.
On qualifying for Europe: “For the past three months everyone has been saying “This match is important” but it’s been a final for us every week. We give everything and there’s two games to go. Everything is open and hopefully we can make it.
On Villa’s tactics: “I think they were holding back a little bit in their press. Again, we did create some chances but I think there were maybe two penalty moments where it’s not even looked at. It seems to be every time it happens to us, where it’s either a red card for example us against Manchester United or Wolves. I don’t know if it’s luck or maybe we’re just unlucky.”
On Mings’ challenge on Scott: “Yeah I think everyone can see. Tyrone Mings went to use his body, I couldn’t really see if he elbowed him but there was contact. He’s trying to protect the ball so I’m not sure, I’d have to see it back.
On the final two matches of the season: “We just need to move on. We have nine or ten days to prepare for the game (against Man City). We need to be fresh, get ready and take the three points.
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