Keep moving towards your goal: Emery calls for using all games to improve himself

The 27th round of the 2024/25 Premier League will be staged tomorrow, and Aston Villa will go to Selhurst Park to challenge Crystal Palace. Emery said that the team must make good use of future games and challenges to continuously improve, so that there will be more opportunities and abilities to achieve the goal.

In the last round of the league, Aston Villa fell behind by one goal and finally reversed Chelsea 2-1 at home with two goals contributed by Asensio. After returning to the winning track, Aston Villa is currently ranked 8th in the standings with 42 points, 2 points behind Manchester City, which is 4th.

Aston Villa coach Emery said at a press conference, “Our goal is always to improve and make the team more united. At different times, players can bring different things to the team. However, we still need to reshape the team's structure. In the next few weeks, both tactics and personal abilities need to be improved. Tomorrow's game is a good test to see if we have improved and become stronger. "

“We are very strict with ourselves because our current performance is not good enough. But we are excited and motivated because there are still many challenges waiting for us.”

Emery continued, "We lost too many balls and our defensive intensity was not as good as it was when we were in our best form. So we must use the next games and challenges to keep improving. If we can't do this, it will be very difficult to achieve our goals."

Looking back at the record against Crystal Palace, Aston Villa has achieved 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in the past 5 games, including a 2-2 draw at home in the first round of this season.

I think Crystal Palace performed very well away from home.

Emery said, "Overall, they performed well in the league, and perhaps even better away from home, and even got a lot of points. They lost some games at home, but they deserved more. We watched and analyzed the game, and they performed just like when we played against them, and they could win those games."

"It will be difficult to stop them from a tactical point of view because they are very strong structurally. Defensively they also have players with strong individual qualities and win a lot of duels, and the goalkeeper also performs well."

As for the fight for European qualification, Emery said, "There are still many games to play, and it also depends on our performance tomorrow. As the league progresses, the remaining games will only get fewer and fewer. We certainly need to work hard to make up for the points we lost before. If we can't get enough points, the situation will become more difficult."

"We remain positive while working hard to rebuild a solid structure tactically, mentally and with the new players. Every game is a test and a real challenge, we can't waste time and must go all out. I won't calculate how many points I need to secure European qualification, I'm only focused on tomorrow's game and getting three points."