Emery admits Villa’s mismanagement puts them at risk of missing out on Champions League top eight
Aston Villa manager Unai Emery said after his team lost 0-1 to Monaco in the UEFA Champions League on January 21 that when playing a game like this, the most important thing is to get 3 points for the chance of finishing in the top 8 of the table. This match is therefore very important.

The defeat leaves Villa in 8th place in the table with 13 points from 7 matches, at risk of dropping out of the top 8 in the new UEFA Champions League rankings. In the final match, Villa must beat Celtic at Villa Park next week to guarantee a top 8 finish in the หากคุณสนใจเล่นพนันออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด สามารถสมัครสมาชิก UFABET ได้ที่นี่ พร้อมรับโปรโมชั่นพิเศษสำหรับสมาชิกใหม่ league format and automatically secure a place in the last 16, without having to play a home-and-away play-off to compete for a place in the knockout round.
Emery continued: “In the last 20 minutes of the game we played with two strikers, but when we played like that we didn’t play systematically, didn’t fit into the style I had planned. We have two great strikers, Ollie Watkins and Jon Duran. It’s a challenge for me to use both of them. They are really good players, but it might not have worked out that way.”
The Villa boss admitted at the end that he made a mistake when deciding to go with two strikers because we were still in control of the game before that decision.