It took 45 minutes to get going but in the end Old Trafford was treated to a crazy six-goal second-half thriller as Manchester United booked their place in the next round of the Carabao Cup.
Erik ten Hag’s substitutions made the difference with the teenager Alejandro Garnacho causing the Aston Villa backline all manner of problems, but there were also positives for Unai Emery to take at the beginning of his reign.
Villa played with the same intensity they showed in beating United 3-1 in the league on Sunday, Emery’s first game, with the Spaniard dictating the tactics from his technical area.
For Villa this is a new system and with seven changes to the starting XI it was a new group of players who
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