After a decent midweek win in the Europa League, it's back to the bread and butter of the season with the visit of Aston Villa to the Emirates. It's this game which will be seen as the proper response to last weekend's dismal outing at Watford – after all Unai Emery made seven changes for the Frankfurt game, rotating his squad and ‘resting' others. Ahead of this one, the manager spoke about the need to be more defensively secure, having allowed Watford 31 attempts on goal, and Frankfurt 24 on Thursday evening. Emery tried to play that down a bit in his comments, saying: A lot of shots they are not important, not dangerous for us, but we don’t want to defend those situations deep...
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