"Yeah, it's a fair comment. I think everyone has seen the picture, seen the goal. Here we pride ourselves in trying to play a high line; it is something the boss has instilled since he first came. We didn't quite get it right. Things have not been good for us so far this season. But there are blips in the season, and we are going through that now. Hopefully, we can move on."
"When your manager doesn't speak too well of you, it is not a good thing for you. It does bring a bit of fuel into you, and you just want to play the next game as soon as possible, to prove everyone wrong. It starts from [Thursday]. As players, we have been in the game a long time, and we know what we need to do. It is down to us at the end of the day. We are on the pitch, not the manager. We have to figure it out for ourselves as well."
Aston Villa drew 1-1 with Sunderland despite facing ten men for over an hour. Matty Cash scored Villa's first Premier League goal, but Wilson Isidor equalised. Unai Emery criticised the side as "lazy" in defence after the match. Ezri Konsa accepted the criticism and said the team pride themselves on playing a high line that they did not execute correctly. Konsa described the poor form as a blip, said the players must respond on the pitch, and insisted the club is not in a crisis ahead of the Europa League tie with Bologna.
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