Aston Villa boss Unai Emery has been talking to the media earlier than Wednesday’s Champions League second leg towards Membership Brugge (kick-off 20:00 GMT).
Villa received the primary leg of the last-16 tie 3-1 in Belgium final week.
Listed below are the important thing strains from his information convention:
Emiliano Martinez and Marco Asensio are each accessible after lacking Saturday’s win at whereas midfielder Amadou Onana can also be returning to the squad.
On how Villa put together with a two-goal lead, Emery mentioned: “Nothing modifications. We have now our personal expertise, something might occur as a result of it is soccer – the match can change so rapidly,” and referenced Villa giving up a two-goal lead earlier within the competitors towards Celtic.
On how key the gang are: “The supporters know their significance in our course of – the surroundings, serving to, supporting us. It is a particular second at Villa Park – we’ve got to be collectively and revel in it.”
He mentioned the gamers have been practising penalties however “it is troublesome, it is by no means the identical – the true observe is within the second. How they really feel – snug, robust and prepared. A very powerful is expertise is thru earlier penalty shootouts.”
On the significance of Morgan Rogers: “I respect versatile gamers who perceive every part – he’s one in all them, John McGinn is one other, their character and [consistency] is essential – I’m pushing different gamers to be versatile in case we’d like it.”
He continued: “[Rogers] is all the time performing nicely as a result of he understands every part tactically what we’re planning and in addition has the standard to do it, he’s all the time making an attempt to enhance and we wish extra of him.”
On how the membership is performing: “Our goal is to be constantly taking part in in Europe and the Champions League, there’s a new demand – for the house owners, the membership and the supporters. My goal once I arrived was to contend for trophies and play in Europe – hopefully we proceed, I need extra.”
On how they’ll have a profitable season: “We’re getting higher, however we’ve got an expectation within the Premier League – we’ve got to attempt to get the stability within the subsequent few weeks and months. I do not need to cease – we all know how demanding we’ve got to be to realize our goal.”