Aston Villa lost their penultimate pre-season friendly in Marseille, in what proved to be a hotly contested affair at the Stade Vélodrome.

New signing Evann Guessand became the fourth Villa player to be booked, when he committed a foul in the 70th minute - a decision that looked harsh.

Matty Cash, John McGinn, and Donyell Malen had already gone into the referee’s book, as he allowed very little to go unpunished in the first hour.

However, the referee struggled to maintain control of the game, and Marseille’s players took advantage, seemingly making fouls simply to rouse their sell-out crowd.

With the ferocity of this so-called “friendly” threatening to boil over, tensions finally erupted late on when Mason Greenwood kicked out at Amadou Onana.

The former Manchester United man had ev

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