- Villa Leadra 3-1 entering the second leg of the Champions League shock the last 16
- Despite Villa's success in this year's competition, Emery has a long -term objective
- Listen now: Everything is starting! With the Premier League probably ensuring five places in the Champions League, are we rewarding mediocrity?
Unai Emery will not be satisfied until Aston Villa becomes regular champions league while they are on the edge of the quarterfinals.
While Villa avoids losing for more than one goal for Club Brugge on Wednesday, they will be guaranteed a place in the last eight of the main club competition in Europe.
When Emery took over Villa in the fall of 2023, they risked to slide in the descent zone. In less than two years, the Basque had taken them to an end among the top four, and now fans dream of a 1982 repetition, when Villa raised the European Cup.
“Playing in this Champions League has been fantastic, but my goal is to try to play constantly in the Champions League,” Emery said. 'Staying at this level is difficult. This is the challenge I have.
'I know where the club was after they won the European Cup. For a long time they did not achieve the demands that we are now establishing in the club. Of course, everything we are doing now is important. But I want more.
Villa Leadere 3-1 is expected after the first leg in Belgium and Emery that restores Emi MartÃnez in the goal, after Argentina's star lost the 1-0 victory in Brentford last weekend with an hamstring torto. Marco Asensio, on the loan of Paris Saint-Germain, also returns to the team after the last meeting of the Premier League.
Unai Emery is looking to help Aston Villa become regular customers of the Champions League after his success this season
Villa Lead Club Brugge 3-1 in its champions League clash last 16 in the first leg
Villa was close to falling in the descent zone when Emery took over the fall of 2023
With the salary bill of Villa in approximately 96 percent of the billing, the progress in the Champions League, and the continuous qualification for this, is essential for the club to coincide with Emery's ambitions.
Emery added: 'All we are achieving is because we have new forms and new demands: starting with the owners, the club and everything we are trying to establish.
'When I arrived, my goal was to compete for trophies and qualify for Europe, which we achieved in each of the first two seasons. We have our vision of how we want to increase our level and achieve different things.