‘We could even have lost the match’ – Villa boss Unai Emery on pulsating draw with Ipswich Town

Liam Delap gave the Blues the lead early on, but goals from Morgan Rogers and Ollie Watkins put high-flying Villa on top at half-time. However, Town once again showed their resilience to grab a fourth straight draw as Delap scored a brilliant second to level the scores with 20 minutes left. The result sees Villa sit in fifth spot in the early table, while Town are 15th with four points from six games. Kalvin Phillips on the ball for Town (Image: PA) Emery told the Birmingham Mail: "The result is fair and we are in a process as a team working out how we can build strongly our tactics and mentality with some new players getting progressively better.  "More or less, my thoughts are that one match like, after the first half, we came back the result and controlled the match like we planned. READ MORE: Alex Jones' Town player ratings "When teams play at home they are pushing and more or less demanding more from us, focus and tactically defensively and offensively. We need to control the game again like we didn’t do in the second half. "The result was fair and we could have even lost the match in the end. I am accepting the point, but in the way I want to raise our level and demands, I accept it in our process.” Liam Delap scored a brace for Town (Image: Steve Waller) He added: “Overall we have 13 points, but today we were as well optimistic about the possibility to get to Liverpool with 15 points. We can accept how difficult this league is and playing away, playing against a team like Ipswich who are excited and have a good structure tactically. "They are playing with confidence and this is the difficulty we faced today in 90 minutes. In the first half we played even better than I had planned to stop their game plan and their capacity to push us. READ MORE: McKenna's reaction to draw "In the second half they played like I thought they would in the second half. Of course, in this moment we needed to be stronger than we were. "For example, we conceded 10 corners and how is the question. We didn’t control the ball and our positioning to stop them to get to our box. They didn’t score through corners, but it showed we didn’t have control."