In one of the world’s casino capitals, Unai Emery made a losing bet to leave Aston Villa’s Champions League fate hanging on next week’s all-British clash with Celtic.
With the Prince of Wales watching from the VIP seats, Villa trailed Monaco to Wilfried Singo’s eighth-minute header. Emery then took the risk of playing with Ollie Watkins and Jhon Duran together from the 10th minute of the second half yet with their two star forwards on the pitch, Villa never looked like scoring. They are now likely to need to beat Celtic next week to have a chance of qualifying automatically for the last 16.