00:00Good evening from Monaco where the press conference room is in the process of
00:04being dismantled so if this video cuts out you'll know why. Not a great night for Villa
00:101-0 defeat here in the Principality on the Mediterranean and Unai Emery after
00:16the game perhaps the angriest I think he's been what two years three months in
00:21charge of Villa. He took aim at some of his players claiming they lacked the
00:26right mentality. He took aim at himself admitting that he got it tactically
00:31wrong in the second half and he took aim at his set pieces and click team set
00:35pieces as well second describing them as horrible. Really frustrating night for
00:39Villa and Unai Emery fears that they have blown their chance of finishing in
00:42the top eight of the Champions League group stage which obviously would have
00:46sent them through or would send them through to the last 16 automatically and
00:50avoiding the playoff round. Instead it's all going to be on next week's final
00:55game against Celtic when there's going to be a whole host of teams involved. I
00:59mean it really will be a case of get the get the abacus down from the loft to use
01:04a well-worn cliche. Villa have to win and will probably need to get some help
01:09elsewhere if they're going to finish in the top eight and go straight through to
01:13the last 16. You know not a huge amount in the game tonight but Villa
01:17were poor and they got worse 55 minutes in when Unai Emery brought John
01:22Duran on. There's been a lot of talk obviously about pairing Duran
01:26with Oli Watkins. Can it work? Well tonight it definitively didn't work. Unai Emery
01:31after the game holding his hands up and saying that he made a mistake and the
01:37team got worse after he'd made that decision. Also questioning the mentality of
01:42the players. Very rarely has he had a go at his team but tonight he did in a
01:49very dramatic fashion. Said some players are not following the plan. Named some
01:54players who were following the plan but obviously left some of the names out.
01:57He was asked what he meant by not following the plan or where they were
02:01lacking. He twice tapped his head signifying that they were lacking a
02:07bit the right mentality and then said we need it, we need it. So he's not happy.
02:16He was similarly angry after the defeat of Bruges, earning the Champions League.
02:21This was just for the second defeat in the competition and still really well placed.
02:25They're still through to the playoff round at the very least. The feeling is it
02:29could have been more, it still could be more but it's felt a really big
02:32opportunity lost.
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