""He's my son. He's my son.""
""The most important thing today was to compete like we did, to feel good playing in our style," Emery said. "Everything they were demanding us to be compact and we did it and then of course to win the match, score goals. We had chances to score the second goal. We didn't do it but we are really happy after the feeling we had on Sunday. "To recover this victory and now to focus on the next match against Newcastle on Sunday. "Europa League is important for us and we have got in the top eight and this is the most important now of course. "Building the team with some circumstances not h"
Unai Emery laughed off a heated sideline altercation with Youri Tielemans after substituting the midfielder in the second minute of stoppage time during Aston Villa's 1-0 Europa League win over Fenerbahce in Istanbul. Emery refused to shake Tielemans' hand and shoved him as he walked back to the bench, then described Tielemans as "my son." Jadon Sancho scored his first goal for Villa in the 25th minute from a deflected Matty Cash cross. Marco Bizot made crucial second-half saves, VAR ruled out an equaliser, and Villa secured a top-eight Europa League place despite injury absences.
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