REGGAE BOY Leon Bailey scored his second Premier League goal in four outings and his fourth in the last five games overall, as Aston Villa came from behind to thrash Crystal Palace 3-1 and continue their excellent start to the season yesterday. The 26-year-old winger, who featured over the last week in Nations League qualifying for Jamaica, struck deep into stoppage at the end as Villa scored three times in the last 20 minutes of the contest, which included an astonishing 17 minutes of added time. For Villa, the win moved them into seventh in the standings on nine points while Palace lie eighth on seven points. “We were playing more with our hearts than with our minds in the last 20 minutes, and sometimes you need that,” said Villa boss Unai Emery.
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