**Unai Emery demanded improvement from his Aston Villa side after they were beaten 2-1 by Go Ahead Eagles in the Europa League.**
Going into the match Villa had been in very good form, winning five in a row, most notably beating Spurs 2-1 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium just days before their loss to the Dutch side.
After Evann Guessand put the Midlands side ahead four minutes in it looked as though they would cruise to another win, but goals from Mathis Suray and Mats Deijl in the second half made sure that was not the case. Villa did have a chance to level through a penalty, however, Emiliano Buendia fired the spot kick over the bar.
Unai Emery insists that his side are still very far from the final product and still must improve.
“We have had experiences like this. We lost at Legia Warsaw, we drew at Zrinjski and at Ajax,” Emery said. “Sometimes we performed well. Today we made more chances, but we lost. This is football. We are analysing how you can be better than the opponent and still lose.
“Europe helped us to recover our bad form. We won two matches and we felt better after it. Today, Europe showed us how difficult it is to play, and away.
“Even when dominating and creating chances, if you make mistakes and concede chances, maybe you can lose. Today it happened. We must accept it.
“We have to add experiences for our next matches and our way this season. There is still work to do. This is my summary about how we have broken the good form we have. We have to recover quick. We have six points and we were optimistic to add more today. We lost it. We have to react in the next matches, adding the circumstances we had today, improving and analysing everything.”
The Villa boss was disappointed in the type of goals his side conceded in the match.
“We have to try to avoid the goals like we conceded,” he said. “The first goal was through a set-piece – the first half we didn’t perform in them well. You have to try to be so focused to stop the opponent. In the second half, we had a penalty and we dominated.
“We conceded a few transitions, and they were clinical. They were fantastic defensively. Of course, my analysis must be deeply about how tactically we conceded chances. We have to analyse and correct it. Europe helped us a lot to come back after our best start. Now we can cut our good start.”