Unai Emery delivered a smash-and-grab masterclass as Ollie Watkins kept Aston Villa’s Champions League hopes alive by sealing the team’s seventh win in eight Premier League games.
Having sat back and let the initial Bournemouth whirlwind blow itself out, the visitors produced a flurry at the end of the first half which was finally rewarded when Watkins turned in Morgan Rogers’ cross in the sixth minute of stoppage time.
Villa held out in the second half despite Jacob Ramsey’s late red card with goalkeeper Emi Martinez outstanding, and as a result they leapfrogged Nottingham Forest into sixth and join Newcastle and Chelsea on 63 points with those two teams playing each other Sunday lunchtime at St James’ Park.