Unai Emery leads Aston Villa into their final game of the season on Sunday when they close out the Premier League campaign versus Manchester United.
There's plenty at stake for the team at Old Trafford as they attempt to secure a top-five finish and a place in the Champions League.
Manager Emery spoke to reporters from Bodymoor Heath ahead of a defining day.
Here's what he had to say...
On qualifying for Europe...
“We have Europa Conference League, Europa League and Champions League. We will finish in Europe, and that’s the first target we set at the beginning of the season.
“We’re ambitious, and our ambition is how we are being demanding over the second half of the season and arriving in the key moment with the possibility to be there.
“It’s not in our hands, but we did a really great effort to be here now, focusing on the match on Sunday with chances to be there.
“We’re very excited and 100% motivated. We’re working and being disciplined about everything we have to try to do on Sunday. We’re respecting the opponent.”
On another season of progress…
“I am so, so proud of our club, our supporters, our players, the workers and employees. To be proud of everything 100%, and we still have the match on Sunday. If we are getting the better gift on Sunday to play Champions League, it will be more.
“I am so, so happy with how we are responding, how we have developed in our process this season in the Premier League, how the players are now with their commitment and their wishes to get, individually and collectively, our objective.
“They are so, so focused. I am really happy with how we are training and how we are preparing each game and responding to playing games.
“On Sunday it will be really good to see again how we are facing our challenges against them, their players, Old Trafford, their style and their history.”
On facing Manchester United…
“Always, [I expect] the best of them. The best. The greatness of Manchester United is still there. The great coach they have is still there.
“He did a fantastic job in Sporting Lisbon, fantastic, and not for one year, not two years, not three years – consistently. When he arrived here, it was a difficult moment.
“They were in two competitions, as well as the FA Cup, but they were trying to be consistent, and they chose in one moment for the Europa League because it was a great way through it to get their target to be in the Champions League.
“Only one of them in the final could achieve their objective, and they lost. But their greatness is still being there. The coach is a great coach and the players are very good players.
“We have played here with Aston Villa for three years and I didn’t beat them here (Old Trafford). My respect is a massive respect for Manchester United, their players and for the coach.
“I expect the best of them because they will play honestly for the Premier League, for their supporters, to try and show their capacity to perform and to compete in the level they are.
“We will try and prepare as best as possible the match with our game plan, with our focus, with our individual and collective performances we are having in the last matches.
“I am very positive, I am very excited, I am very motivated to enjoy the process we are in today, tomorrow, and on Sunday.”
On the battle for fifth place…
“In our hands is only our result on Sunday, how we can respond and how we can perform against Manchester United.
“That’s the only issue I want to focus on with the players. I don’t want to know other results.
“I want only to play our match, only to focus on our match in 90 minutes and try to focus the dressing room on the first half on everything tactically and individually.
“We will not focus on other results. We must win, we must compete and we must get our result. We must respect Manchester United. That’s the only way I want to focus on Sunday.”