Unai Emery turned his attention towards this weekend's trip to Arsenal at his pre-match press conference on Friday.
Aston Villa's head coach previewed the Premier League clash as he spoke to media at Bodymoor Heath, discussing December's 1-0 victory over the Gunners, his return to Emirates Stadium, improvements from his side, as well as providing the latest team news.
Here's what he had to say...
On team news...
“We will train tomorrow, today we recover with some players, we did compensation work.
“Lenglet and Cash are training today with the group.
“We’ll work tomorrow again and see how they will feel to get a decision about the team and the players to be available for Sunday.”
On any advantage having previously managed Arsenal…
“Not really, I think it’s a different context, different circumstances.
“It’s not really something more than playing against them, with the difficultly we are going to face and respecting them.”
On wanting his Villa team to be stronger…
“We’ve conceded some chances we have to try to avoid.
“It’s tactically, being stronger defensively and when we are in control of the game as well, try to keep the ball position better.”
On looking to repeat December’s victory…
“It’s different, completely different.
“We played at home here at Villa Park in December (compared to) the match we are going to play on Sunday.
“Something similar because there’s a lot of players again playing, fighting in those teams.
“But different because we’re playing at the Emirates, we’re playing as well in a different context, now they are fighting for the Premier League trophy.
“We’re fighting behind them trying to keep our fifth position we have now and fighting with Tottenham.
“Different as well because some players, of course, being injured are not going to play on Sunday.”
