Leicester have invariably managed to do well against the Villa. Even when they were poor and we were better than we are now they could get an annoyingly good result against us far too often so Tuesday night was always going to be a difficult one, even without the upturn that’s supposed to come from getting rid of a manager. This time, though, would be different. You just knew it would.

Boubacar Kamara was left out and replaced by Leon Bailey, which seemed a bit odd but Unai knows best. There wasn’t much to talk about in the early stages then a couple of passes carved open the Leicester defence for Ollie Watkins to score again. Naturally there was a VAR claim but we’re becoming a big club now so the goal stood. Leicester equalised ten minutes later and all I’ll say about that is that there should be a rule against clubs who play music after scoring. In fact, the only thing worse is supporters clapping along.

Into the second half and Ashley Young got fouled twice within minutes by the same player. Both were bookings and Leicester were down to ten men, which against the Villa isn’t always a disadvantage but again, this is the new improved Aston Villa. Emery left his substitutions until late in the game; Jhon Duran came on with ten minutes to go and five minutes later there was a triple change which included the arrival of Bertrand Traore for the ever-inconsistent Leon Bailey. One of the things I love about football is a player who gets the ball and you don’t know what he’s going to do with it. Sometimes he’ll tread on it, sometimes it’ll end up in the next town, then sometimes, very special times, he’ll curl it round the keeper and just inside the post from twenty yards. Whatever new players arrive during the summer we should keep Traore for moments like that.

There was time for Leicester to be awarded a penalty and for VAR to overrule it because we’re a big club now and it would have been saved anyway. Three useful points and onto the next game.