Unai Emery spoke to the press at Bodymoor Heath on Friday afternoon, to look ahead to Aston Villa's Premier League meeting with Chelsea on Saturday.
The Villans look to return to winning ways in their third home outing in eight days, after draws against Ipswich Town and Liverpool over the past week.
And Emery met with the local and national media at Villa's training base ahead of the clash, discussing the Champions League draw, eradicating mistakes and facing Chelsea.
Read the key lines from his pre-match press conference below...
On Champions League draw...
“Happy we are in the last 16, and happy with the draw, but every team they are in the last 16, they deserve to be there.
“Of course, we played against Brugge and we knew their capacity to compete like they are doing usually. They beat Atalanta as well.
“Losing there 1-0, of course, is good information for us, how we have to compete, to respect, to prepare, to try to avoid the mistakes we made.
“But really happy, because we are going to enjoy this moment with our supporters, and we are going to compete when it’s arriving, but now we have to focus (on) Chelsea.”
On fitting new signings into the team...
“Progressively, again, trying to build a team in our structure, to get stronger.
“Tactically, in the beginning, try to feel everybody with their capacity, qualities, skills and as well with their individual motivation and wishes to be protagonists.
“Try to get collectively, tactically, our structure as strong as possible, defensively, offensively. This is the task I have, and of course the players as well, they are involved in this commitment to get it as soon as possible.
“Tomorrow, Chelsea is really a very good test, collectively, individually, very good test.
“In the table we are more or less under our target, and tomorrow we have to try to get this opportunity again to try to compete and to try to get three points.”
On mistakes...
“The mistakes when it’s obviously watching everybody, some lost balls when we are building up, some individual duels we are not winning, it’s clear I am not punishing it.
“It’s how we can build our idea, our style, our structure, getting stronger, this is the first objective I have, always, because I think, through it, we will win more matches than we will lose.
“I was speaking about the mistakes, more deep mistakes, but not very relevant mistakes.
“I was speaking about collectively and tactically, when we were not playing and focusing really how we are feeling stronger. This is tactically.
“This is of course my task, my responsibility, try to get collectively our structure as strong as possible through the players, but their individual task and decision on the field is very important.
“This is my work now. This is really my focus, how we can face tomorrow Chelsea, how we can face the next matches as well against the best teams in the Premier League and hopefully in the FA Cup and hopefully as well with Brugge, and another objective we can have in the future.”
On reverse fixture at Stamford Bridge...
“Of course, two years ago, last year, the first match we played this season against Chelsea was a different moment. Now, hopefully, we can feel stronger.
“Last year against Chelsea at home, in the FA Cup we were out, in the Premier League match we played more or less in February/March, we compete very well but we draw. They were always demanding (of) us a lot, always.
“This year we played there in London, we lost and we deserved to lose. We didn’t perform, we didn’t compete like I think we have to, to get to the level we achieved last year.
“This year, more or less, we are achieving something, but not consistency.
“Tomorrow is the test, and tomorrow I am motivated preparing (for) the match. I am motivated preparing, as well, our team, analysing the match we played on Wednesday.
“We analysed before the matches we played with the players we have now, with the new players as well.
“And of course, the most important, how they are responding, being as well motivated to try to help us.”
Watch the boss' full pre-match press conference below...
Aston Villa v Chelsea
