Unai Emery sends message to Harvey Elliott after hauling him off at half-time

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Sign up to our newsletter and then select your team in the link we’ll send you so we can get football news tailored to you. ‘Keep going, for him and I change him more tactically because Emiliano Buendia is giving us energy and his adaptation is better than Elliott,’ Emery said of the half-time change. ‘He needs time, Elliott. We needed goals through Watkins, Buendia and McGinn. ‘Today, with our supporters, we need to connect here and bring the energy.

We are not where we want to be but this result will hopefully help us get better. How the players are connecting and adapting is important.’ Ollie Watkins opened the scoring at Villa Park (Picture: Getty Images) It is still a disappointing start to the season for Villa, with six points from six games, but it will be a big boost to the morale of the side ahead of a trip to Feyenoord on Thursday and then hosting Burnley on Sunday. ‘Happy and overall we kept the consistency we achieved on Thursday and we started today a little bit under our energy,’ said the manager. ‘We conceded one goal and it was again. a very difficult moment but reacted. ‘Winning duels and recovering the ball as high as possible and then we were being aggressive.

I told you we were improving and getting better but we needed to improve things. Today we did it. ‘Of course, now, we are playing in Feyenoord on Thursday and we have the opportunity to get confidence and it is another opportunity and challenge.