Aston Villa boss Unai Emery advised BBC’s Match of the Day: “So, so proud of the gamers and naturally we should analyse this match, however general we’re getting the day 19 with the factors we have now and the week we did.
“At present we did superb first half, completely different to the match towards Chelsea and naturally we had been competing effectively and even getting our momentum and creating probabilities. We didn’t concede rather a lot, no corners within the first half for them. However the second half the primary purpose modified all the pieces and after it they pushed it. And we had as effectively the damage of Amadou Onana and we misplaced all the pieces within the center and so they have the facility they confirmed. And we completed shedding. Now with the gamers, my evaluation is after the match how we did right here 90 minutes however general an important is attempt to perceive general how we’re.
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“The primary purpose, how they rating it perhaps could possibly be foul however her in England it’s tougher as a result of the referees they let to the touch the keepers and it’s troublesome however we should settle for as a result of it is either side.”
On Villa’s 11-game profitable run ending: “Soccer is now. Soccer is now, how we at the moment are. All the things we did was unbelievable. Kind of we’re getting our approach, we might anticipate a greater approach perhaps as a result of we’re third within the league and Europa League superb, however attempt to analyse as we speak and the gamers we have now.”
On why he went down the tunnel shortly and whether or not he was sad with something: “No, once I end the match I’m at all times ready to shake palms with one other coach however he was with the coaches and I am unable to look ahead to him. In fact, I used to be there however no downside. I went to my dressing room.”
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Aston Villa’s defeat marked simply the fourth time a Premier League staff have seen a profitable run of eight or extra video games ended by a defeat of three+ objectives, and the primary since Liverpool’s 18-game profitable run was ended by a 3-0 defeat to Watford in February 2020.
Villa’s Ollie Watkins has scored a Premier League purpose on his birthday in consecutive years, netting towards Brighton in 2024. He is the third participant to attain on a couple of birthday within the competitors after Teddy Sheringham (1994, 1995) and Tomás Soucek (2022, 2025).