ASTON VILLA finally managed to grab the Red Bull by the horns as super sub Ross Barkley snatched a dramatic late win in Leipzig.
Villa inspirational sub was only on the park for two minutes when he crashed home a shot which took a wicked deflection off Lukas Klostermann to leave Peter Gulacsi stranded.
Ross Barkley scored the winner for Aston Villa
John Duran came off the bench to score a crucial goal
John McGinn came up with another goal in the Champions League
Villa rode their luck at times and led Leipzig twice – only to let them back in twice.
But Barkley’s winner proved just too much for the home side to recover from as Villa stormed into the top eight of the Champions League.
If Carlsberg did starts to a football match they would have hand-picked this one for Villa.
Unai Emery’s men were in dreamland when skipper John McGinn fired them in front with just two minutes and 33 seconds on the clock.
Matty Cash, standing in for the injured Leon Bailey ทางเข้า ufabet https://ufabet999.app wide on the right – picked out Ollie Watkins with a deep cross to the back stick.
The England striker rose on his own and cushioned an inviting header into the path of McGinn who accepted the gift with glee.
The Scot expertly tucked the ball away with his less favoured right foot from nine yards to stun the hosts.
Only Peter Withe against Vitoria Guimaraes and Spartak Moscow, both in 1983, had managed to score quicker goals for Villa in Europe.
And he also overtook Scottish scoring legend Ally McCoist when he scored on his last two international outings against Croatia and Poland.
At that point Villa looked in cruise control.
Watkins was a fraction away from getting on the end of a Lucas Digne delivery which flashed across the face of goal.
Then Youri Tielemans and McGinn worked a short corner which ended with the Scot blazing his shot high and wide.
Tielemans was next to try his luck when he screwed his shot wide after good build-up play by McGinn, Digne and Watkins.
We all sat and waited for the next goal.
What we never expected was that RB Leipzig would score it!
Yet somehow after 27 minutes Leipzig struck as Villa undid all their previous good work.