Unai Emery: "I never told my goalkeeper to go to the opponent's goal in the 92nd minute"

The head coach of "Aston Villa" Unai Emery reacted to the defeat in the match of the 24th round of the English championship with "Arsenal" (2:4).

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"Playing in the best league in the world, we try to stick to one game plan, but on the field we don't manage to do that. We do not need to rush this process. Even at the moment with the first goal, the team didn't play the way I wanted it to. We haven't progressed in the last two or three games.

I'm upset. I understand that we need time, but we learn from our mistakes. For example, I never told my goalkeeper to go to the opponent's goal in the 92nd minute. Maybe he will score once in 100 attempts, and maybe the opponent will score 10 goals in 20 times. Today it happened. We can lose 2-3, but 2-4 is not a very good result. It's my responsibility, but today I transferred it to the players," Emery was quoted as saying by the BBC.

We will remind that at the end of the meeting, Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez went to Arsenal's penalty area to take a corner, but the Londoners ran out in a counterattack and Gabriel Martinelli scored into the opponent's empty net.