00:00Aston Villa are well and truly in the hunt for a Champions League place after a victory against a returning
00:07to form West Ham side who are looking to escape relegation.
00:12Villa were winless in their last three matches and a victory at home at Villa Park at the weekend has
00:19left manager Unai Emery delighted.
00:21The coach has praised his players saying it was a game where everything they worked on came together and that
00:29he was delighted with their performance.
00:31Here's what Emery had to say after the game.
00:34Fantastic result, high quality performance as well. How pleased are you with that?
00:38We are delighted. We are delighted how the supporters in Villa Park helped us transmit their energy and we settled
00:46this match like a match to try to recover confidence and recover our stutter tactically.
00:51And our style idea to try to confirm it on the field through it dominated the match and we did
00:58it because we have won but we have won because we were setting our game plan strongly in the direction
01:05we planned before and the players respond fantastic.
01:08It's really brilliant how they got the challenge to play in this way and to play as well recovering confidence
01:21and feeling comfortable collectively and individually through it and the French will clinch it to win the match and we
01:28have won because the players respond fantastic.
01:31Oli Watkins has been omitted from the 35-man England squad selected by manager Thomas Tuchel.
01:38The Villa striker now looks set to miss the World Cup unless his goal scoring form improves.
01:44Watkins did score against West Ham in their last game out and will look to end the season strongly ahead
01:50of the World Cup.
01:51Here's what Emery had to say on Oli Watkins.
01:54John McGuin scored in Europe midweek, got a goal today as well and Uri Tielemann is back. How important are
02:00those two players and how good is it to have them back?
02:01Of course set-piece is very important and Austin is really doing a fantastic work as well. The job and
02:07the players they are responding in their commitment to follow the game plan tactically and individually and as well in
02:15set-pieces like they did.
02:17And of course it's very important to score through set-pieces.
02:20And then John McGuin, of course it's important for him to get numbers, add us numbers and he did it
02:27and another goal for Oli Watkins. Fantastic. He did a fantastic job.
02:33I think today everything was going very good. Of course we even deserved more in the first half but we
02:41were dominating. We were not considering chances for them.
02:46We were really getting their work a lot of times and then we have won but we were always focusing
02:56how. And we did it.
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