Unai Emery is confident Villa are heading in the right direction despite Premier League leaders Liverpool condemning them to a fourth straight defeat.
Saturday night’s 2-0 defeat at Anfield means Villa are on their worst run since Emery took charge two years ago, having been knocked out of the Carabao Cup by Crystal Palace and suffered league defeats at Tottenham and Liverpool either side of last week’s Champions League loss at Club Brugge.
Villa conceded twice on the counter attack through Darwin Nunez and Mo Salah but also caused the home side problems, with Caoimhin Kelleher saving from both Amadou Onana and Diego Carlos. “I am confident because I think we are in the right way after this match. We wanted to get points but against Liverpool we can accept the result because they are really feeling strong at home and not really dominating and creating chances against us. They won and we accept it.”
But in between Villa failed to capitalise on a number of promising positions, with Morgan Rogers missing a good chance to equalise early in the second half. It was the third time they had failed to score in the league this season but Emery downplayed any concern over his attacking players, pointing out the quality of their opponents.“Even like that we created some attacks and we needed a little bit more to threaten them getting real chances to score.
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