Aston Villa stunned Championship leaders Wolverhampton Wanderers with a 4-1 win on Saturday – and Willy Boly got a lot of attention.
Wolverhampton Wanderers supporters lit the touch paper ahead of Saturday’s Midlands derby with Aston Villa by confidently proclaiming Willy Boly the Championship’s best defender.
36-year-old Aston Villa skipper John Terry, they believed, couldn’t hold a candle to their own French powerhouse.
But it’s fair to say Aston Villa fans got their revenge. Steve Bruce’s side stunned the league leaders 4-1 at Molineux, with Albert Adomah, James Chester, Lewis Grabban and Birkir Bjarnason consigning Wolves to their biggest defeat of an excellent campaign.
And it has not escaped the home supporters’ attention that Boly didn’t exactly cover himself in glory on two of Villa’s goals.
The Porto loanee was beaten by a brilliant near post run and flick by Grabban, before giving away possession with a limp pass to set Bjarnason up to fire home the fourth with a precise shot from the edge of the box.
Terry, in the meantime, was his usual peerless self at the heart of the Aston Villa defence. He cleared one Matt Docherty ball off the line in the first half and, while rarely tested against an oddly subdued Wolves attack, dealt with everything with his customary class.
And Villa fans didn’t waste the opportunity to rub their neighbours’ noses in a defeat which, while breathing fresh life into the title race, does nothing for Boly’s reputation.
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