Villa will head to Old Trafford with their Champions League hopes still very much alive, to face the worst United team in half a century.<\/p>\n
Ruben Amorim\u2019s squad, who first face Tottenham in Wednesday\u2019s Europa League final, are the first United team to go winless in eight league matches since 1990 and are languishing 16th in the table.<\/p>\n
Wolves, Brentford and West Ham have all won at Old Trafford in recent weeks but while Villa will head into the match as favourites, Onana says they won\u2019t take anything for granted on a ground where as a club they have traditionally struggled.<\/p>\n
The Belgium international said: \u201cManchester United is still Manchester United. It is a great group of players. They might be in a bad phase right now but it is still a strong team.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to be ready, definitely and not under-estimate them at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s 2-0 win over Tottenham saw Villa climb into the Premier League top five but destiny is not yet in their own hands, with Manchester City having the chance to jump back over them in the table should they avoid defeat against Bournemouth on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not in our hands but all we can do is win,\u201d said Onana. \u201cYou can be pretty sure that we’re gonna go out there and \u00a0just give it all to win.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s not a secret for anyone. we want to play Champions League again – two years in a row.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re in Europe already but Champions League is something special, something different, so we wanna reach that target, you know? And make it a habit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s win was Villa\u2019s 32nd in all competitions this season, breaking a club record for total victories in a top flight campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The team has also set a new benchmark of 18 straight unbeaten home Premier League matches, beating the previous best figure set earlier in Emery\u2019s reign.<\/p>\n
Ezri Konsa and Boubacar Kamara scored the second half goals to earn their eighth win in the last nine league matches.<\/p>\n
Onana said: \u201cObviously, we knew that he were going to need a win at Villa Park.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve been really strong at home, so, yeah, we were willing to come out and give our best.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s done, but we got one more to go, so we\u2019re definitely focused on that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn’t know about the records but we\u2019ve got to keep it going. I’m hungry for more and more. and we\u2019re capable of more so, we gotta keep it going<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a special team, with a lot of great players.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have the starting 11, but even the players on the bench, they could all start and we keep each other on our toes – you have to be on your best game to start week week out. We\u2019ve got healthy competition and that\u2019s the result.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Villa will head to Old Trafford with their Champions League hopes still very much alive, to face the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[102,748,393,94,4884,2465,93,14,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-112729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-aston-villa","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-sport","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114531061823385549","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}