Matt Maher on Aston Villa's Champions League clash with Club Brugge

Matt Maher brings his take on Aston Villa's pre-match press conference ahead of their Champions League clash with Club Brugge.

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00:00Good evening from Brugge, just checking the pronunciation of that with a good friend here,

00:08where Uno Emery has held his pre-match press conference ahead of tomorrow's Champions League

00:12game. The Villa boss in really kind of upbeat spirit or very determined spirit, should we say,

00:21basically saying that tomorrow is a huge opportunity for Villa to put themselves in

00:26the driving seat for a top eight finish. He even speculated how much he thinks they'll need

00:33to get into the top eight, he thinks they'll need 16 to 17 points from their

00:38eight group stage matches. Obviously they've got nine already, I mean tomorrow would take that up

00:44to 12 and continue their perfect record in this competition. Villa can actually make a bit of

00:50history by becoming the first newcomers in the Champions League to win their first four games

00:56without conceding a goal. Of course in the Premier League they've only kept one clean sheet in 10

01:00matches but in the Champions League you know things seem to be going so well, you know three

01:06wins over Young Boys by Munich and of course Bologna last time out. Once again that's again

01:13Bologna, Villa are favourites tomorrow night but Uno Emery pointing out that Brugge will be

01:19desperate to win themselves, fills the atmosphere inside this stadium and it is a very kind of old

01:25traditional ground, will be similar to that at Villa Park last month when Villa hosted by Munich

01:30so that Villa will have to be at their best and he feels if they drop their standards

01:34then obviously we'll risk losing the game. Matty Cash as expected won't be featuring, he's had a

01:41calf injury, Ross Barkley still out with a hamstring injury but otherwise Villa it's

01:48pretty much apart from that, no further fresh injury concerns so it remains to be seen

01:53what kind of team Emery picks and how strong he goes, judging by the way he was

01:57speaking tonight it sounds like he's going to go pretty strong and try and take a big step towards

02:04the last eight of this or sorry the top eight would send Villa through automatically

02:09through to the last 16 of this competition.