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Aston Villa’s best moment this season
National World - LocalTV
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16/05/2024
A season full of them, but is there a standout?
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Charlie, on to Aston Villa now. Looking across their season as a whole, it's been their best
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top-flight season in a number of years. They've reached some fantastic heights, getting him
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to sign that contract as well. Looking back over this magnificent season, this magnificent
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run they've had, what are the standout moments for you covering Aston Villa and being involved
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at the club?
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There's been so many. It's hard to pinpoint just one really. You can talk about Europe
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and how it started away at Hibernian, a thrashing 5-0 win over it in Edinburgh to start that
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campaign and then all the group matches, the trips across the continent. League Year Warsaw
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was a fun one, AZ Alkmaar, you had Ajax as well. Obviously that was a 0-0 draw away from
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home but then winning comfortably at Villa Park against the European giants of Ajax.
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What an impressive performance that was, what a night that was under the lights. Just
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seeing all the fireworks, the European nights back at Villa Park I think were so impressive.
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Back in the Premier League, beating Brighton Over Albion 6-1 at the start of the season
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kind of set the tone for what should be an impressive year. I'm a Brighton fan myself,
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that wasn't a very fun one in the press box myself but for Villa, just a hat-trick for
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Ollie Watkins. Going forward, the likes of Moussa Diaby, Leon Bailey, so, so impressive
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and they've carried that on throughout the season. But the two 1-0 wins over Arsenal
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and Manchester City in the same week in December, I think that's when people started to really
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take the club seriously. At that point there was actually a chance to go top at Christmas,
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they failed to do that and then of course they lost the lead away at Manchester United
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on Boxing Day, that could have got them to the top of the Premier League, they failed
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to do that but I don't think they were ever real title contenders because they just didn't
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have the longevity and the injuries of course didn't help but that's when people started
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to properly think, okay, Villa could get in the Champions League here and now with one
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game to go, they could genuinely do it.
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And you know, we mentioned the moments as well but they've had some fantastic individual
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performance as well. I mean, the likes of Ollie Watkins and you know, multiple other
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players who've played into that fantastic attack and have been really solid at the back
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as well, all round. What do you think the key to that has been? Is it just the Unai
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Emery way of making sure that everywhere is so good and so consistent throughout an entire season?
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I think you hit the nail on the head really, it's Emery's consistency and his structure
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and it's tempting sometimes to be a bit versatile with your tactics and changing formations
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etc but it's rare that Emery does that, he only does it if he's forced to with injuries
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and he's had quite a few to say the least. I think a lot of talk has been about the likes
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of Man United and Newcastle and Chelsea with their injuries but Villa have been really
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hurt by it as well. Losing Tyrow Mings and Emi Buendia at the start of the season, two
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key players was not ideal. Jacob Ramsey as well, Bupukar Kamara out for the rest of the
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season. These are very important players, starting players, so to lose them and still
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be in a top four battle, let alone finishing in it, is so, so impressive and that's down
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to Emery, his tactics, his consistency and his belief in his players and his squad.
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