Aston Villa and Juventus draw after injury-time Rogers goal ruled out

Although Villa's famous win here against Bayern Munich required a heroic defensive effort earlier in the competition, the early stages suggested it could be there for the taking against a depleted Juventus team.

Every pass was praised by the home fans, and they were almost richly rewarded when Pau Torres looked just over from Leon Bailey's corner.

However, Juve were a nuisance in attack, especially through the tricky runs of Francisco Conceicao and Kenan Yildiz, with the latter pulling his shot wide after firing towards goal.

It wasn't until the half-hour mark that things really got going when Villa registered a first shot on target through Ollie Watkins, who received Boubacar Kamara's pass and tested Michele Di Gregorio at his near post.

The game started and there were half chances for Timothy Weah and Conceicao, but the best chance of the half came in stoppage time. Pierre Kalulu brought down Watkins on the edge of the penalty area, allowing Lucas Digne to drop a delicate free-kick painfully onto the top of Di Gregorio's crossbar.

A lack of quality in the final third epitomized the opening stages of the second half, and instead it was an excellent display of goalkeeping from Emiliano Martinez that kept the scoreboard untroubled.

A cross bounced all the way to the back post to Conceicao, whose point-blank header was cleared off the line by the Yashin Trophy holder's lightning reflexes.

Using that as a springboard, Villa soon came as close to opening the scoring themselves, with John McGinn's low shot cleared off the line by Manuel Locatelli.

Those clear chances were followed by a cagey final twenty minutes, but there was to be a final dramatic twist.

Youri Tielemans scored a free-kick in the dying moments of stoppage time, which was misjudged by Di Gregorio and rightly tapped in by Morgan Rogers, but VAR ruled that Diego Carlos had fouled the goalkeeper in the melee.

Nevertheless, it was a positive result for both sides, especially Villa, who kept their fourth clean sheet in five UCL league games.

Security at the back could also be the key to success for Juventus this season, with 11 of 18 games under Thiago Motta seeing their opponents draw a clean sheet.

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