Aston Villa pay price for slow start as Wilfried Singo earns Monaco victory

In the playground of the rich and famous, Aston Villa left Monaco counting the cost of a sluggish start. Prince William and the Villa co-owner, Nassef Sawiris, whose superyacht would not look out of place round the corner at Port Hercules, were among those in attendance. Villa roused but never truly recovered from Wilfried Singo?s early headed goal and their hopes of automatically qualifying for the last 16 will go down to the wire when Celtic visit next week.
An hour before kick-off Unai Emery was serenaded by the Villa supporters stationed under the iconic arches of this stadium on the French Riviera but this was a rare night when his side fell flat, a mirror-image of their result at Club Brugge in November and reminiscent, too, of that pale performance.
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