UNAI EMERY knows he has a thoroughbred in Jhon Duran and the only questions are how hard to race him and when.
The 19-year-old Colombian is 6ft lin of rippling muscle and menace from Medellin.
He has yet to start a Premier League game, but the goal he scored to turn this match around was a startling announcement of his talent Aston Villa invested £18million in the forward from Chicago Fire in January, but that value will quickly be repaid if he holds his form over longer trips than this 20-minute cameo off the bench.
Emery (right) sounded like a racehorse trainer at Epsom, when he said: "Jhon is 19 and he needs help - sometimes to push him and be demanding with him, sometimes to try to support everything he is doing, good and bad.
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