Aston Villa manager gave his thoughts on a match against Ipswich Town in which his team drew, with two goals from Ipswich Town striker, Liam Delap. The match saw Villa leading at half-time due to goals from Morgan Rogers and Ollie Watkins but Delap equalised with 20 minutes to go.
Unai Emery said “More or less, my thoughts are that one match like this, after the first half, we came back and controlled the match as we had planned. However, 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. 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. 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 from getting to our box. They didn’t score through corners, but it showed we didn’t have control.”
The result left the manager’s team 15th in the league with four points from six games, whilst Villa sat in the fifth spot in the early table.
