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Monaco vs Aston Villa - Matt Maher preview
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21/01/2025
Monaco vs Aston Villa - Matt Maher preview
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Good evening from Monaco, Villa back in Champions League action tomorrow night and are looking
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to take a big step towards the last 16 of the competition.
00:12
We know Emery's team know that a win tomorrow would not mathematically secure their place
00:20
in the top 8 of the huge league table but it would go a long way towards doing so ahead
00:26
of next week's game against Celtic which of course rounds off the group stage.
00:30
Emery tonight saying he wants to take any mathematical permutations completely out of
00:34
the equation.
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His target is to win both games and he knows that's going to be easier said than done.
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Emery managed in France Paris Saint-Germain, Monaco, he knows they're a tough side and
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big opportunity for Monaco as well tomorrow.
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A draw for them would almost virtually see them through to the knockout phases while
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a win would keep alive their hopes of going straight through to the last 16 as well.
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Their manager Addy Hooter earlier in the day saying they wouldn't be playing for the draw
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he said we're not an Italian team we're going to go for the win.
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So tomorrow should be a decent game.
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Now you might have expected a lot of the talk tonight in the press conference to be about
01:12
John Duran because there have been reports today from pretty reliable sources that West
01:17
Ham have had a bid rejected but there's some conjecture or should we say some debate over
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the exact size of that bid.
01:24
There has been a bid from West Ham, it has been rejected or more precisely ignored.
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Villa are adamant that it's nowhere close to the £57m that has been reported in some
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places and even if it was £57m that would still be some way below their valuation of
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Duran.
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Of course he's scored 12 goals in all competitions this season and has signed a new contract
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since being the subject of interest from West Ham in the summer.
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Una Emery didn't take questions on the bid for Duran and essentially Villa feel that
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it's not an issue that the manager needs to be discussing, Duran is not for sale.
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This month their stance has not changed and there is some anger internally that this story
02:09
has come out on the eve of such a big Champions League game.
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Well Duran is likely to feature tomorrow so it will be interesting to see what happens
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because when he's in the headlines he tends to do something interesting so we'll see what
02:25
happens.
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