Aston Villa will win the Champions League 1-0 next season thanks to Ollie Watkins' first-half-record champion.
Villa's victory put them in sixth place - above Nottingham Forest and keeping scores with Newcastle and Chelsea, who face each other on Sunday.
In fact, this is the visitor’s classic Unai Emery performance, where Villa shuts down Bournemouth’s offensive agenda by creating a stop-start game. Then, Villa played his full-out offensive style before halftime.
Marco Asensio had to exclude boubacar Kamara and Matty Cash from the post office with a double save, but Villa ended up leading the way with Watkins on the cross of Morgan Rogers.
The goal was offside when Watkins became Villa's highest Premier League goalkeeper in history with 75 strikes.
Bournemouth tried to take Villa's shackles by taking Justin Kluivert in half-time - but that wasn't good.
As Villa continued to shut down the hosts, Bournemouth turned to their favorite fixed weapons. But Villa has its own dead ball machine - they keep the best defensive record of fixtures, with only two goals throughout the season.
Even Jacob Ramsey's two reservations were small red cards. Antoine Semenyo, Evanilson and Illia Zabarnyi had a late chance - but the former opened the range, while the other two were allowed to fire at Emiliano Martinez.
There was an hour-long moment when Semenyo hit it from close range, just letting Martinez parry the first shot, then turned Daniel Jebbison down with cash, and refused. But the villa should get clean sheets.
Cherries had an expected target (XG) of 0.8, their second lowest this season. lowest? Return to the league match against Villa in October.
The result was a big blow to Bournemouth's own European hopes, as the victory of Brentford and Brighton earlier in the day meant they were in 10th place, two points behind their competitors.
For conference league football matches, eighth place may be enough, Bournemouth's time has run out.
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