Aston Villa v West Ham preview: Home comforts are nice – but Unai Emery wants more
Villa might be one win away from matching their best run of home form for 40 years but don’t expect Unai Emery to get too excited.
For Villa’s head coach, the focus is always on what comes next. So that current record of 10 consecutive league wins stretching back to the start of March, while nice, is of little concern now to the Spaniard.
“We are not thinking what we did,” declared Emery yesterday. “We are focused on what we can do and how we can improve and how we are going to face the next match.
“We are going to share it with the fans. Villa Park is special. Each match is a big challenge to keep the same level we are taking there.”
Victory tomorrow would match Villa’s longest home league winning streak since 1983 and Emery’s relative ambivalence to such statistics doesn’t mean what they have achieved over the past seven months isn’t impressive.
