Villa headed into the weekend’s matches sitting pretty in third place, but boss Emery has highlighted just how far there is to go before fans can get excited about landing their first league title since 1981. Emery said: “Be humble, and work like we are doing the last few years, but especially the last two months.I think the players, after our poor start, they involved with me as well in the demand I have and we are trying to set in the squad every day. How we want to work, how we want to be demanding of ourselves, and how we can get consistency.”
Emery added: “How we perform, the last year is an example and it’s an experience for us. And sometimes we were performing well, we were achieving our objective. But maybe if we were getting our demands higher, maybe even we could get something more. And this is the reason now, this is the third year I am here, I am really very motivated but more demanding even than when I arrived here.”