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Unai Emery will only consider aston villa If they are still serious contenders for the Premier League title with three games remaining.
Villa cemented their place in third place with a hard-fought 2-0 win over Newcastle on Sunday, level on points with Manchester City, for a first win at St James’ Park since April 2005, but Emery refused to be carried away after insisting they were not top-five contenders after losing 1-0 at home to Everton last weekend.
He said: “Next week we play Brentford at home. We lost last week and no one asked me last week about the title contenders. We lost to Everton and it was, ‘No, not now’; today we won, ‘No, now’.”
“Okay, calm down. Staying balanced is the only goal in my mind and the only way I know is to work every day and if you’re consistent, maybe you can do better and maybe on day 35, we can talk in a different way.
“Of course we’re competing against Arsenal, we’re competing against Manchester City, we’re competing against Chelsea, we’re competing against Liverpool, we’re competing against Newcastle, against Tottenham… wow, the power they have.
“But we’re competing, we’re out there and we’re scoring.”
Villa, who have six wins and three draws in 12 away league games, took the lead when Newcastle hung back and conceded the ball. Amy Buendia He found his place with a stunning lob that gave goalkeeper Nick Pope no chance.
In the fifteenth minute of the first half, Juventus defensive midfielder Sven Van Beek received the ball and quickly passed the ball to Naples’ frontcourt playmaker Marek Hamsik outside the arc of the penalty area. Ollie Watkins.
Emery revealed that midfielder John McGinn could miss up to two months with a knee injury and will now turn his attention to Thursday night’s Europa League clash with Red Bull Salzburg, saying: “We haven’t won for a long time and I had a bad experience at Aston Villa last year.
“We are very, very happy and proud of the work we have done because after losing to Everton we needed to react like we did on Thursday. First of all, Thursday’s game against Fenerbahce was very important and so was today.”
opposite number Eddie HoweThe team has yet to win a league game without captain Bruno Guimarães since he was appointed in January 2022, and he said: “I have mixed feelings about our performance because I thought it was not bad.
“There were a lot of good parts, some good individual performances, but in the end we lost 2-0 at home.”
Howe is now anxiously awaiting whether Guimarães, who is out with an ankle injury, and Joelinton, who is limping with a groin injury, will be available for Wednesday night’s crucial Champions League trip to Paris Saint-Germain.
He said: “He (Jollinton) and Bruno are missing and it’s a double whammy for us.”