Aston Villa supervisor Unai Emery says he’s “assured” his group can flip their fortunes round after a 3-0 defeat to Crystal Palace on Sunday compounded a depressing begin to their Premier League season.
In a repeat of April’s FA Cup semi-final at Wembley, Emery’s aspect have been undone by the eventual winners at Villa Park on an evening that noticed goals from Jean-Philippe Mateta, Marc Guehi and Ismaila Sarr safe the factors for Oliver Glasner’s males.
The end result piles additional distress on Villa after what has been a disappointing begin to the marketing campaign; one which has seen them turn out to be the one top-flight membership to haven’t scored of their first three outings.
It means Emery’s aspect, who completed sixth final time period, reached the final eight of the Champions League and can play within the Europa League this season, at the moment discover themselves second backside within the desk going into the worldwide break subsequent week.
Requested for his post-game evaluation, Emery instructed Sky Sports activities: “[I am] annoyed however we performed the primary half properly. We adopted the sport plan we have been anticipating and we have been dominating the match.
“We had one actually good likelihood with Ollie Watkins. However we have been dominant. We didn’t concede corners, we have been avoiding the transitions.
“We made one mistake with the penalty and it was a objective. And naturally after that it was tougher.
“I believe we began the second half very properly. After their second objective perhaps it was tougher however the first half and the 20 minutes of the second half, I can’t do something.”
The Villa boss admitted he felt for the followers throughout this tough interval however believes his gamers will put their difficult begin firmly behind them once they return to home motion in opposition to Everton on 13 September.
“In fact we’re annoyed, we’re unhappy for our supporters, however we now have to just accept it. We now have to be collectively,” Emery mentioned.
“Within the good moments we have been having fun with it, we have been completely satisfied. Now, we began badly the primary three matches [of the season] however tomorrow is the first of September, the tip of the switch window and I’m assured for the following matches after this break.”
