Aston Villa thrash Brighton 6-1 to record historic Villa Park victory

Post-match reaction as Aston Villa leapfrog Brighton & Hove Albion in the Premier League with a remarkable 6-1 win at Villa Park.

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00:00 Aston Villa 6 Brighton & Hove Albion 1. What an incredible result that is for Unai Emery's team.

00:07 A stunning victory over Brighton & Hove Albion who were hapless this afternoon.

00:12 Villa were buoyant, they looked awful midweek against Everton but the best possible response here.

00:17 From start to finish they pressed high, they were aggressive, they looked like they wanted it a lot more

00:23 and Brighton, the amount of mistakes that they made at the back today, they just couldn't cope with the likes of Oli Watkins,

00:28 Moussa Diaby stepping up high, Watkins & Diaby linked up so well.

00:32 Watkins scoring a very well-earned hat-trick this afternoon, got two assists as well if you include the rebound

00:37 for Douglas Suiza's goal in added time. Oustou Pignan as well, an own goal for him.

00:43 Oli Watkins coming in, Moussa Diaby involved in that one.

00:46 I've kind of lost count of the amount of chances Aston Villa had.

00:49 Incredibly the expected goals statistic today is only 0.1 between the two teams.

00:54 I'm not quite sure how that's the case, I think it just shows that Brighton's defence were pretty on holiday for much of this one.

01:00 But Villa, incredible, very clinical indeed and that now actually puts them above Brighton.

01:06 You wouldn't have thought that would be possible before today after there was a 10 goal difference gap between the two teams.

01:12 But Unai Emery's team have done it, they're up to third in the Premier League now and after that defeat to Newcastle on the opening day

01:18 you wouldn't have seen that coming at all.

01:20 But they've done brilliantly to respond, it's just now whether they can do it in all of the competitions.

01:25 All the fatigue setting in mid-week, no sign of that today but we'll see mid-week in Europe whether that continues over.