The same applies to Ollie Watkins.
Just a few days after their surge toward the Premier League summit was knocked off course by a 4-1 thumping at Arsenal, Villa rebounded with a 3-1 victory over Nottingham Forest which demonstrated why they cannot, quite yet, be counted out of the title race.
Watkins, meanwhile, scored for the fourth time in three matches to continue his own renaissance.
With fewer than 10 seconds remaining of a first half his team had dominated without carving out much in the way of clear-cut chances, the striker received a pass from Morgan Rogers, took a couple of touches and then rifled a shot into the roof of the net from just outside the box.
From that point on Villa never truly looked like letting slip a win which kept them just six points behind the Gunners and extinguished fears last Tuesday’s torrid second half at the Emirates had left any lasting scars.
Perhaps more significantly, in terms of Villa’s primary aim of securing European football for a fourth successive season, the win maintained a healthy cushion to a chasing pack who must now find the kind of consistent form which has so far eluded them, or hope for Emery’s team to stumble if they are to close the gap.
The odds on the latter are not particularly short. Ever since Emery arrived more than three years ago Villa have not been a team to suffer any prolonged loss of form.