Brighton 3-4 Aston Villa: What Emery said

Unai Emery spoke to BBC Match of the Day after Aston Villa's victory against Brighton: "A very tough match. How we started and reacted is more like the season. The players reacted and continued with our game plan to never give up. We kept the mentality and the resilience, really fantastic.

"Our first three matches were much worse. The first goal was not a corner, I think. We conceded and then we were expecting a lot in the

"We reacted to scoring one goal and we started the game plan and they followed it. We are so thankful for the supporters. 4000 of them with us here from Birmingham.

On Ollie Watkins: "Keep going. He needs those goals, he needs calm. He needs to keep going and get balance and he got it.

"Marco is a very, very good goalkeeper. he is always ready to play like today. Martinez was not ready to play and had some pain in his back. Marco is ready and he saved us with one good save in the 90th minute.

"The table is very important for us. We know how difficult it is. We needed to work hard and perform. We will play on Saturday against Arsenal at home. The teams behind us are going to push a lot. Be humble because we know how difficult it is to face teams in the Premier League."

Did you know?

Tonight's victory for Aston Villa was Unai Emery's 62nd in the Premier League with the Villans, the most of any manager across the club's history in the competition – overtaking John Gregory and Martin O'Neill (both 61).