{"id":456139,"date":"2023-08-23T23:29:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T19:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456139"},"modified":"2023-08-23T23:29:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T19:29:30","slug":"aston-villa-demolish-hibernian-5-0-watkins-bags-hat-trick","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/aston-villa-demolish-hibernian-5-0-watkins-bags-hat-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa demolish Hibernian 5-0; Watkins bags hat-trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa destroyed Hibernian in a commanding fashion 5-0 in the first-leg Europa Conference League play-off on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A commanding lead to take back to Villa Park, courtesy of our joint-biggest European win. \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1ylIP4nK2f\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1ylIP4nK2f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AVFCOfficial\/status\/1694418771069268136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ollie Watkins stole the headlines with a brilliant solo display as he bagged a hat-trick, which all but ended the Hibs&#8217; hopes of qualification.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old opened the scoring with a sublime header, before doubling Villa&#8217;s lead with precise notch at the back post from Lucas Digne through ball.<\/p>\n<p>Leon Bailey gave the visitors a comfortable 3-0 lead before the half-time interval with a fine header of his own.<\/p>\n<p>Watkins completed his hat-trick just 3 minutes after the break after a VAR review deemed the striker onside, after the goal being initially disallowed.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides meet again for the second leg next Thursday and the Hibs will try to do as much damage limitation as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa destroyed Hibernian in a commanding fashion 5-0 in the first-leg Europa Conference League play-off on Wednesday night. A commanding lead to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":456140,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18818,21092],"news_category":[11101,14235],"gn_keywords":[18819,21093,21094],"acf":{"announce":"The Birmingham team ran riot and all but secured a return to European football","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456139"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456139"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}