Graeme Souness lauds Tyrone Mings after error in Aston Villa win

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Graeme Souness has told Sky Sports (broadcast on 4/4; 18:39) that you have to give Tyrone Mings credit for what he did after his mistake saw Aston Villa go a goal down to Fulham on Sunday.

Villa fans must have been wondering when their luck would turn as their latest clash reached its final 15 minutes.

As well as finding out Jack Grealish was not ready to return ahead of the game, they found themselves 1-0 down to a calamitous goal which Aleksandar Mitrovic made the most of.

Mings’s mishit his back pass to Emi Martinez and that allowed Mitrovic to run through, take it round the Villa goalkeeper and slide the ball into an empty net.

But Mings would play his part in the equaliser shortly after. He made a run down the left flank to get onto Matt Targett’s pass. And he proceeded to cross the ball in for Trezeguet.

Mings will need no one to tell him what a mess he made for the opening goal. But Souness insisted that he deserves praise for the way he responded to that error.

“You have to give Tyrone Mings credit,” he told Sky Sports. “He’s made an almighty rick that’s cost them the goal. But he pushed on and he’s the man that’s responsible for the equaliser. He wasn’t happy to settle for being the villain. He wanted to be the one changing it.

“He’s forcing the issue, credit to him. Good lad. He showed a bit of leadership at an important time.”

It was a fantastic response from Dean Smith’s men as a team. They had not been on the best run without their talisman. And heads could have easily dropped when Fulham took the lead.

But they fought back amazingly. And they are now right back in the mix for the top four, with the win moving the side up to ninth in the table.