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  • We’re learning how to beat defensive teams – Villa coach, Emery

    We’re learning how to beat defensive teams – Villa coach, Emery

    Aston Villa manager Unai Emery admits they’re finding more teams playing defensively against them.

    Villa had to work hard to find a way to win at FA Cup opponents Middlesbrough on the weekend.

    Emery said: “It is our next step as a team. We are facing a lot of teams who play with a low block and are respecting us a lot.

    “Saturday (at Middlesbrough) was similar to Burnley, Zrinjski and Legia Warsaw. We know it and we are trying to add in our practice and preparation things which can help us face it.

    “It is not easy to beat teams defending like that, particularly when they do it very well.

    “For me, tactically it is exciting to face a difficult challenge and it is the same for our players.”

    Emery added: “We are playing a lot of matches like this because teams in the Premier League, in Europe and the FA Cup are respecting us a lot.

    “Our improvement means teams are facing us differently. We can improve by playing matches like this.”

  • Emery success a good sign for us tonight – Tuchel

    Emery success a good sign for us tonight – Tuchel

    Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel hopes Unai Emery’s Europa League success is a positive sign for tonight.

    Like Villarreal coach Emery, Tuchel is also a former PSG manager and hopes to repeat the Spaniard’s success in the Champions League final tonight.

    “It’s a good sign. We take all the things that make us think of good signs, and that is a very positive signal,” confided Tuchel with a smile on RMC.

    “We are very happy to have beaten them (Manchester City) twice in a row. It means that we know very well what to do, that we will suffer against them, but that we can find solutions.

    “We were also lucky, we know it’s another competition, but we have that experience and it’s good for confidence.”

  • Europa: We deserved to win – Villarreal coach

    Europa: We deserved to win – Villarreal coach

    Villarreal coach Unai Emery was delighted for the players after winning the Europa League.

    Villarreal defeated Manchester United on penalties after the score had finished 1-1.

    Afterwards, Emery said: “I am very happy. These players have worked very hard through the season, for the president, the owner, the chairman. We are very proud of Villarreal. I think we deserved to win. It was Manchester United but we played a very competitive match tonight.

    “This club has played in the UCL and we are going to enjoy this competition.

    “I want to win the Europa League but I want to play in the Champions League. We will enjoy this moment with our supporters and our families tomorrow.”

  • Europa: How we intend to upset Man Utd – Emery

    Europa: How we intend to upset Man Utd – Emery

    Villarreal coach Unai Emery is very proud to have guided the club to the Europa League final.

    Villarreal meet Manchester United on Wednesday night in Gdansk.

    He told Marca: “If I feel proud of something in this final, it is breaking that barrier, it is managing to bring that excitement to Villarreal, to take Villarreal past the semi-finals after experiencing so much frustration. Always placing a lot of value on what the club had achieved before, but breaking another barrier.

    “Having said that, the objective of both myself and the club has to be: ‘We made it, but we cannot stay here, we must keep improving,’ and that is also very difficult, but those are the challenges.

    “In a final of 90 minutes, of 120 minutes or penalties, a lot of things can happen. There will be moments for Manchester United, there will be moments for Villarreal, let’s see who makes the most of them. How many moments will Manchester United or Villarreal have? Normally, United will have more and we have to work to ensure that they don’t have more. And ater, it is about being capable of taking advantage of your moments. Normally the favourite wins?

    “Yes. That is reality, but we are going to try with our options, with confidence and a lot of security. “

  • Europa: We deserve to face Man Utd in final – Emery

    Europa: We deserve to face Man Utd in final – Emery

    Villarreal coach Unai Emery was delighted with their 0-0 at Arsenal as they reach the Europa League final.

    The stalemate sees the Yellow Submarine reach the final 2-1 on aggregate.

    Emery said, “We are very proud because Arsenal are a very good team and we worked tonight, as well as in the first leg, and deserved to go through. We made a very serious match, my players constantly helping each other.

    “We worked hard today, defended really well.

    “Then sometimes we controlled parts of the match with possession. The best chances to score… I’d admit Arsenal had. I know it’s going to be difficult against United but today we enjoy the moment. We deserve to play them and we will show our supporters our best performance.”

    Villarreal will meet Manchester United in the final in Gdansk on May 26.

  • Arteta trying to bring Arsenal traditions back – Emery

    Arteta trying to bring Arsenal traditions back – Emery

    Villarreal coach Unai Emery believes Mikel Arteta is the right manager for Arsenal.

    Emery faces his former club this week in the Europa League semi final first-leg.

    On his successor, Emery said: “Arteta tries to make his mark on Arsenal and I like that.

    “It is easy to identify that he is trying to bring back Arsenal’s tradition of playing beautiful football.

    “He played under Arsene Wenger there and I am sure he can apply everything he learned then. I think Arsenal and Arteta is a good marriage.”

  • Why I’ll never forget Emery for my entire life – Guendouzi

    Why I’ll never forget Emery for my entire life – Guendouzi

    Arsenal midfielder Matteo Guendouzi has paid tribute to former manager Unai Emery.

    Now on-loan with Hertha Berlin, Guendouzi says he played his best football under Villarreal coach Emery at the Gunners.

    He told France Football: “Unai Emery made me progress a lot, considered me very early on.

    “I always gave everything for him. It worked really well with him. I played very great matches. I will thank him all my life.

    “You cannot imagine how thorough he is. Normally you don’t see a trainer sweating in training, running next to you because they want you to move on. It was a wonderful relationship with Emery.”

  • Arsenal: I lost confidence under Emery – Elneny

    Arsenal: I lost confidence under Emery – Elneny

    Arsenal midfielder Mohamed Elneny is delighted with the support of manager Mikel Arteta.

    The Egypt international flourished in Turkey on-loan with Besiktas, but wondered whether he still had a future with us under Arteta – but received a pleasant surprise.

    “Before I came to London, I didn’t speak to him and I was a bit…. not stressed, but just thinking about what would he like,” Elneny told the club’s website.

    “When I sat with him, I said, ‘The way you train, the way you want to play is the way I love to play’ and really I love the way we train, the way he is assisting everything in the club now and it makes me excited to give 100 per cent for the team.

    “Under Emery, I was not playing much, that is why you can lose your confidence and your feeling to play. That is why when I went to Besiktas, on a one-year loan, I played always and brought the confidence back, and when I came back here I saw everyone happy for me to come back.

    “Everyone was excited to see me back, and when I trained, everyone gave me good feedback, saying ‘Mo, you did well’ and this makes you get your confidence back. I will build it and build it and every day I try to learn new things.

    “Yes [I feel wanted], all the time, every day,” he added. “I think in any job if you wake up in the morning, try to learn new things and try to improve every day… this is what is always in my mind when I wake up. I have to go training, I need to improve myself in everything.”

  • EPL: Why Ozil did not feature against Bournemouth – Emery

    Arsenal manager Unai Emery has said Sunday’s Premier League fixture against Bournemouth was too demanding for Mesut Ozil, which fueled speculations of poor relationship between the manager and the playmaker.

    The 30-year-old German World Cup-winning midfielder had played in the Gunners’ previous three matches — all draws — but Emery decided his style did not fit with Bournemouth’s robust approach.

    “We thought ‘how we can do better in the match’, a very demanding match with physicality and intensity,” Emery said following the 2-1 win for Arsenal, when asked why Ozil had not started.

    “Every player is important but today we tried with three centre-backs and it was another possibility for us to improve and find our best performance as a team.”

    Ozil, whose place in the team for Sunday’s North London derby with Tottenham could now be in doubt, did not even warm up for the match.

    “It depends on how the match is going,” said Emery, replying to a question on why Ozil had not warmed up.

    “I decided on another option. We knew this was a difficult stadium, a difficult team. Seventeen matches we haven’t lost but the last three we drew. That is not enough for us.”

    Emery and Ozil have had a fractious relationship since the Spaniard replaced Arsene Wenger at the end of last season.

    Ozil missed the 3-1 win over West Ham in August, when it was reported he and Emery had argued at the training ground but the Arsenal boss said the player had been too ill to train.

    Ozil also threw a tantrum at being substituted in the 2-2 draw with Crystal Palace — in which he captained the side in the absence of the injured Petr Cech — in late October.

    He stomped past Emery and hurled his gloves to the turf in disgust before taking a seat on the bench.

    Emery, though, did not take umbrage publicly, stating “I like the players like him who show the character when we are not playing well”.

  • Guardiola, Klopp, Emery up for Premier League Manager of the Month

    Guardiola, Klopp, Emery up for Premier League Manager of the Month

    Pep Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp, Unai Emery and Nuno Espirito Santo have been nominated for the Premier League’s Manager of the Month award for September.
    Guardiola’s Manchester City side were perfect in the Premier League in September with wins against Newcastle, Fulham, Cardiff and Brighton. They scored 12 times in their four matches, while conceding just once.
    That run has helped City move top of the table, ahead of Liverpool on goal difference.

    Liverpool will attempt to move back into first place on Sunday, when they host City at Anfield.
    Klopp’s side won three of their four matches in September, beating Leicester, Tottenham and Southampton before drawing with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge last weekend.
    After losing his opening two games of the season, Emery has guided Arsenal to fifth in the table with a run of five consecutive victories. The Gunners were perfect in September with wins over Cardiff, Newcastle, Everton and Watford.
    Santo’s Wolves are up to ninth in the table after going through September unbeaten. They beat West Ham, Burnley and Southampton and also earned a creditable draw at Old Trafford against Manchester United.
    Eden Hazard, Raheem Sterling, James Maddison, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Alexandre Lacazette and Willy Boly are all nominated for the Premier League Player of the Month award.
    Hazard was in fine form for Chelsea with five goals in four games, including a hat-trick against Cardiff.
    Sterling found the net three times for City and also added two assists.
    Maddison, who was called into the England squad for the first time this week, scored twice and added two assists for Leicester City.
    Icelandic star Sigurdsson scored three times for Everton to further cement himself as a key member of Marco Silva’s starting line-up.
    Lacazette played a big part in Arsenal’s perfect month, with goals against Cardiff and Everton and an assist against Newcastle.
    Boly is the only defender among the six nominations. He is recognised for helping Wolves keep clean sheets against West Ham, Burnley and Southampton.
    Culled from Sky Sports