Aston Villa's Ashley Young admits West Ham United's late winner took the shine off his equaliser
Nov 5 2009 by Mathew Kendrick, Birmingham Mail
James Milner with team-mate Ashley Young.
“I’m just disappointed with the result.
“Obviously I’ve missed the penalty, but I’ve picked myself back up and scored the goal. It could have been a cross, it could have been a shot but it’s gone in and we didn’t get the result that we wanted.
“I think we came out in the second half on the front foot, we got the goal and I just thought we were the only team that were going to win the game.
“It was disappointing to concede the goal the way that we did but we’ve just got to pick ourselves up and go again on Saturday.
“I don’t think the run of away games we’ve had was a factor.”
Young also had a penalty saved during Villa’s Europa League exit at home to Rapid Vienna in August but he insists he will still volunteer for future spot-kick duty.
James Milner was the last player to miss when he hit the post in the Carling Cup victory over Cardiff and Villa are still to replace Gareth Barry with a reliable taker.
“I think it would have still been me taking it even if James was playing,” added Young.
“But that’s gone now. If there was one on Saturday of course I’d put myself forward to take it.’’
