Jhon Duran gives Villa the chaos they needed to beat Crystal Palace

Jhon Duran plucks the ball from his sky using his chest as an anchor. He pushes it to the ground in the same motion. His leg cocks back like the hammer of a revolver and the ball is the bullet. It sails past Sam Johnstone. And that may as well be all she wrote, as the opposition went down like they had genuinely been shot.

Aston Villa's injection of chaos that saw Duran and Leon Bailey enter a stuffy game between Villa and Crystal Palace worked to perfection. Unai Emery, for the most part, got it right.

Duran's little explosion put Palace to the ground, and allowed Douglas Luiz and Bailey to send a match that was circling the drain at 0-1 to transform into a 3-1 triumph.

And it all stemmed from that change. And that goal.

My friend Dave said during the match that "trying to imagine what it would feel like to be in the Holte to see that fly in. My god."

I'll tell you what it felt like. It felt like one of those Holte moments. You know the ones.

Maybe it wasn't as jawdropping as Collymore Vs Atletico, or Mcginn Vs Wednesday - but it was impactful, and a dagger straight to the heart of a Palace team that threatened for so long to pull the rug on Villa.

It really was 'one of those games', wasn't it? Where try as you might, nothing is enough to get the result you want.

The pivotal moment came from Villa's perfect hypeman, a white-hot prodigy who loves to see his team thrive ahead of himself. A man who bows before 'Mr' Ollie Watkins, and knows his role.

Before long, it may morph into something else entirely- but right now Duran is Villa's gamechanger from the bench. When the average side isn't enough to push down opposition (and it should be enough for most) there are players like Duran who can enter from the bench to make impact.

I truly believe that the average Villa side, including Watkins, will do the job. It just wasn't enough today. Watkins will get stick for tamely wasting a chance, and Nicolo Zaniolo will get some for languid runs that went nowhere. Eventually, that main side will click. Zaniolo will find people. Watkins will score.

It's just on days like today where there needs a spark. Duran has proven he can provide that. It doesn't mean Watkins is bad, or that Duran only has a place on the bench - it simply means that Villa have options. A truly decent thing for a side which has simply had to rely on one XI to see out the day for far too long.

Duran's moment of magic stands alone. Take a bow, as the cliche goes.

I walk back to where I'm parked, and I see a kid in a Diaby shirt chest down a phantom football before lacing it against one of the many, many steel fenced fabrications lining the walls along the way before peeling off in front of his parents.

It's things like that, that become the icing on the cake on a beautiful victorious day in Aston.

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