Emery ready to ignite Aston Villa’s season at Club Brugge after familiar slow start
Emery ready to ignite Aston Villa’s season at Club Brugge after familiar slow start. Manager remains calm despite his side taking one point and scoring no goals in opening three Premier League games Unai Emery is not panicking.
Manager remains calm despite his side taking one point and scoring no goals in opening three Premier League games Unai Emery is not panicking. He may kick every ball on the touchline but, behind closed doors, Aston Villa’s players are used to him being the calmest person in the room, routinely more demanding after victory than defeat.
John McGinn tells a story in which the Villa manager, early in his now almost four-year tenure, broke character and lost his cool during a half-time interval not owing to a lukewarm performance but because he witnessed his captain tearing into teammates. In Emery’s eyes, it was McGinn expending unnecessary energy rather than seeking solutions.
Emery, McGinn and Villa have been here before. Just last season, in fact; at this point, they were pointless in the Premier League and still another 157 minutes from registering their first goal.