Unai Emery makes 'frustrated' Aston Villa admission after Burnley draw
Unai Emery felt his Aston Villa side deserved to come away with more than just a point following their entertaining draw with Burnley.
The Europa League finalists were left “frustrated”, according to Emery, to not seal the three points that would secure their Champions League qualification for next season.
Already-relegated Burnley were more than a match for Emery’s side though, creating just as many opportunities and boasting a higher Expected Goals (xG) of 1.78 to 1.42
Despite that, the Villa chief felt the visitors deserved more than their 2-2 draw.
When asked for his thoughts on Villa’s performance, Emery bluntly replied: “Very, very happy.”
When asked for his thoughts on the result, he added: “Yes, very happy.
“It's been difficult to be fifth in the league in matchday 36. Very, very difficult and it's been very difficult to be in the top five.
“For Liverpool, they are with us, with the same points. For Bournemouth, behind us, and Brighton. They are a fighter team as well, they have been fantastic.
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“It's fantastic to be like we are and now our objective is to be top five, and to be top five in the Premier League, the Premier League for us is something fantastic.
“Today the point is not enough, I know it's not enough. But I know the difficulty to achieve three points here. For us and for other teams.
“But how we compete, how the players show their wishes to win, I am so, so proud of them. I am so, so proud of them and overall and of course, after Thursday, we achieved the final in the Europa League, how we are sharing both competitions.”
Emery continued: “Okay yes, we can feel frustrated, but I know how difficult it is.
“We deserve to win today, and we played to win, we conceded three clear chances, they scored two, but we conceded three clear chances, and of course, to avoid it is our objective, and we created offensively more chances to score.
“Today maybe we created a lot of chances, more than the last matches, even more than on Thursday, but we didn't score.”
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