EPL: Emery excited after victory over Arsenal

Aston Villa boss Unai Emery was beaming after their 1-0 win against Arsenal.

An early goal from John McGinn was enough for Villa to win 1-0.

Emery enthused: “I’m feeling very, very good and very happy, we are connecting with our supporters and the positive energy transmits to us. Today we needed it because we were tired after the game on Wednesday.

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“We competed well and had a strong defensive structure. We were speaking about the necessity to keep a clean sheet against City and Arsenal, it is amazing to keep them. Today we were lower than we wanted but we needed to compete and we did.

“We are increasing mentality and believing how we can be stronger and increase our communication. We will have a lot of work to do to increase more.

“We want to be in the top eight teams but a lot of teams want to be there. At the beginning there were seven top teams but we will fight to be in there. While we are in we can be excited and motivated to get it.”

On a title challenge, he added: “I will speak again when we are in game 30-32 and if we are in the same position as now then maybe I can speak about it.

“At the start we are not a contender, it is only game 16. We are in (the top four) and must try to keep it. It is difficult, we are not dominating matches like we are here.”