Emery reacts to Brentford loss

Unai Emery walked away from Saturday’s 1-0 loss to Brentford frustrated.

The visitors were beaten by a 12^th-minute strike from Bees debutant Dango Ouattara at the Gtech Community Stadium.

Villa responded well to the setback, but for all their possession and efforts at goal, they couldn’t manage to net an equaliser.

“We are frustrated,” Emery said.

“We lost one match when in the first 20 minutes we were not starting like we needed to control the game, and we conceded one goal.

“We reacted and we dominated. We were having corners, we had some chances to score one goal to draw and then to start our own match, thinking to win.

“We didn’t score and we tried everything. We need to work and keep going forward with this result being very, very disappointing for us.”

Villa will now look to pick up a first win of the campaign at home to Crystal Palace next weekend.

Emery says his squad will continue to put in the work as they look to get back to winning ways in B6.

He said: “We are in the process of building the team for different circumstances.

“We competed very well in the first match against Newcastle and today we competed after we conceded one goal, and it wasn’t enough to score one goal and draw.

“Now, the idea is try to move on, try to prepare the next game at home in Villa Park against Crystal Palace and try to react and get a better performance individually and collectively.

“We want to get stronger in the idea we were creating in the last years.”