Aston Villa’s final step in European bid will be hardest – Unai Emery

independent.co.uk:

Boss Unai Emery admits Aston Villa’s final step to return to Europe will be their hardest.Villa host Brighton on Sunday knowing victory would seal a European comeback for the first time since 2010-11.It would book seventh in the Premier League and a Europa Conference League play-off spot but Emery knows it is a tough test.“We have to be very ambitious and I am.

I’m here trying to push everybody, to demand from everybody to get better playing and to take European places,” he said.“We have to take each step being strong and being passionate about how to do it.

We are in this way. We are progressing very well.“I’m very, very happy with the players and their commitment, their character and they are responding very well.

We are also connecting with our supporters.“We are in the first step. If we achieve our objective on Sunday, we will be very, very happy.“It’s the next step because we started by escaping from the bottom (of the table), we got into the top 10 and then we have the objective to be in the European places.“The most difficult step is to get it, but we have our objective.