Unai Emery turned his focus to Premier League matters as he previewed Sunday's clash against AFC Bournemouth at his pre-match press conference on Friday.
Fresh from our dramatic UEFA Europa Conference League victory in Lille, Aston Villa's head coach looked back on Thursday night's action and ahead to the Cherries clash as he spoke to media at Bodymoor Heath.
Here's what he had to say...
On team news...
“It’s difficult to know today how the players finished exactly, thinking how they are going to be for Sunday.
“Not available for Sunday is Álex Moreno, and Tyrone Mings, Emi Buendía, Jacob Ramsey and Boubacar Kamara.
“I think no more, but after the match we played yesterday we have wait for the last training tomorrow and we’ll decide.”
On Emi Martínez…
“To say something about this is when he’s being successful individually and collectively with his club here at Aston Villa and his national team.
“He’s being successful with Argentina, he’s being successful and progressively getting better here with Aston Villa.
“And individually he’s being successful because he’s saving a lot of matches as a goalkeeper.
“Of course, he’s one of the best goalkeepers in the world – the first, the second, the third.
“For me, the best.”
On his second yellow card in the shoot-out…
“I didn’t know this rule.
“But quickly they told me about this rule and now, of course, it’s very important for us and we are speaking with UEFA about this yellow card.
“It’s not exactly 100 per cent he’s not going to be for the next round, available to play.
“In the beginning I think it’s not, but we are in conversations with UEFA about it.
“And, of course, it was a little bit strange because it’s not usual.”
On AFC Bournemouth…
“Bournemouth are really playing very well, they are very, very competitive.
“They are demanding a lot from their opponent if we want to beat them.
“My first objective today is trying to recover as soon as possible the players who played yesterday for 120 minutes.
“The emotion we had yesterday was as well very important too, to reduce and recover full energy for Sunday.
“We will need today evening, tomorrow trying to recover with the players on Sunday to be again strong.
“The match on Sunday is going to be very difficult.
“I appreciate Bournemouth’s coach, the players, how they are playing – their style and their idea, always they are pushing and pushing and pushing.
“Matches against them, like we played there, was really difficult.
“We have to be focused and we have to try to impose our gameplan. But it will be difficult.”