The Holy Trinity: Aston Villa conclusions from historic Premier League victory over Manchester United

It wasn't a vintage performance but sometimes it doesn't matter, and sometimes it REALLY doesn't matter

Aston Villa 2-1 Manchester United. It’s a rarer scoreline than you might imagine.

Villa started Sunday’s game against Manchester United in sloppy fashion and the improvement was marginal rather than emphatic, but hey, who gives a shit?

Lots of supporters have reviewed this as a great result from a poor performance but I don’t think it was bad by any stretch. It wasn’t especially assured but my assessment is that a substandard United line-up played to their limit and barely matched Villa on an off-day.

United head coach Ruben Amorim and MUTV Sky Sports co-commentator Gary Neville have successfully seeded the idea that United were the better team on the day but it isn’t true.

They played better relative to their standard than Villa did to theirs. Big deal.

Here’s your Holy Trinity of match conclusions.