The Hornets boss explained why he had no doubts about starting the young Colombian at St Andrew's watfordfc
Yaser Asprilla made his Hornets debut off the bench in the 1-0 victory over Burnley. Picture: Action Images
Rob Edwards’ decision to start the 18-year-old Colombian raised some eyebrows amid fears about whether he could deal with the physicality of a Championship fixture away from home. “If you think about it when he came on [against Burnley], straight away in that ten, 15 minutes there was just a ‘I don’t care, give me the ball’ and when we haven’t got the ball he’ll go and try and win it back,” said Edwards. “They were starting to press because they were 1-0 down, we were maybe protecting a little bit and also we went down to ten men in that period as well. I worked out pretty quickly then that we could trust him.
The Hornet boss revealed Asprilla thought Tuesday’s game was a 3pm kick-off because he was so excited to be playing.
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