Aston Villa fans noticed one confusing thing in the club’s exclusive footage of Villa v Spartak Trnava on Saturday afternoon.
Unai Emery watched on as Aston Villa recorded their second pre-season friendly win of the summer, beating Spartak Trnava 3-0 in Slovakia.
The Villans built on their 3-0 victory over Walsall with Saturday afternoon’s victory, building form in preparation for their pre-season tour of the United States.
Goals from Leon Bailey, Morgan Rogers and Cameron Archer saw Emery’s side cruise to the win, seeing Rogers claim his third goal of pre-season as he seems to be continuing where he left off last term.
Emery will be thrilled to see his attack connecting well, as well as being able to assess the newbies in the squad, as several new faces featured once more.
While there were lots of talking points to take from the 3-0 win, Aston Villa fans were alerted to something that came away from the on-pitch performance when streaming the game.
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Aston Villa fans noticed one thing during Villa TV coverage of Spartak Trnava pre-season friendly
The only way to watch the game was to purchase a £24.99 subscription to VillaTV+ to watch Emery’s side in action against Spartak Trnava.
The same applied to Villa’s opening pre-season friendly against Walsall, with all of the club’s action in the build up to the 2024/25 campaign able to be viewed on the channel.
While the subscription allows fans to keep up with pre-season fixtures that are less accessible than Premier League and cup games, fans noticed one confusing thing during Saturday afternoon’s coverage.
It came to some supporters’ attention on X that the commentator on the channel frequently referred to centre-back Diego Carlos as Diego Costa.
The 31-year-old played the first half of the fixture and was booked however, the Villa TV commentator struggled throughout the majority of the half to correctly relay the player’s name.
One supporter said, “I missed completely that we’d brought in Diego Costa – not surprised he got a yellow though!”, with another saying, “Having Diego Carlos and Diego Costa in the same team is going to be confusing.”
The switch in surnames with the former Chelsea superstar became an innocent, but frequent, mishap from the commentator, as fans pleaded with Villa TV to correct the player’s name.
“Hi guys just watching the game on Villa tv can you please let the commentator know that it is Diego Carlos and not Diego Costa…3 times now.”
Another fan followed such confusion at the mistaken identity of Carlos by saying, “Can he please stop saying Diego Costa.”
Fortunately, Villa TV rectified the blunder moments before Carlos’ 45 minute cameo ended, which one supporter appreciated, “Finally corrected himself. As if he was calling him Diego Costa all half.”
Villa victory softened the blow of confusion with Villa TV mishap
Fortunately, fans weren’t caused too much confusion as Emery withdrew Carlos at the interval, playing two different XI’s in the opening and ending 45 minutes.
While it was an innocent error, it was clear that the mistake in names was confusing for many supporters who paid £25 to watch the coverage on Villa TV.
The convincing 3-0 win over Spartak Trnava made the error mostly insignificant although, from a coverage point of view, it was a blunder that needed to be rectified.
