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Unai Emery Insisting ‘there’s no point in labeling your own team’ Premier League Previous title challengers face Arsenal on Tuesday.
Villa equaled a club record with 11 consecutive wins in all competitions, their eighth in the top flight. beat Chelsea 2-1 Climb to third in the table at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.
Unai Emery’s side will move level on points with the Gunners with victory and have the chance to prove their title credentials – but the Spaniard is not getting carried away by the hype.
He said: “You asked the same question two years ago. We scored 39 points in 19 games and finished fourth in the Champions League.
“Of course, that would be great, but for me it doesn’t make sense for us to talk about the championship. Now, in December, it doesn’t make sense.
“Of course we are motivated, but at the moment we are motivated to go into the game we want to play (Tuesday).
“There was a three-point gap between them and us and that was our motivation, but if we were thinking about 38 games today – then life went by and we didn’t enjoy it.”
Villa will be without the suspended Marty Cash and Boubacar Kamara, who are both serving one-match bans after picking up their fifth yellow card of the season against Chelsea.
Ollie Watkins will be hoping to return to the starting XI after coming off the bench at Stamford Bridge to score a second-half double-double.