The AS Monaco coach did not hide his satisfaction following his men's victory against Aston Villa, this Tuesday at Louis-II.
Adi Hütter, the coach of Monaco, winner of Aston Villa (1-0) on Tuesday in the Champions League, is “satisfied» et «iron» of the match played by its players, and hopes that “confidence will return».
«I congratulate my players because they fought from start to finish“, said Hütter at the opening of his press conference. “We suffered against a +Top 10+ team in the competition. But we achieve our objective: to qualify for the play-offs. I am very satisfied with this.» «We had to get a good result after our bad patch, he continued. This victory should give us a lot of confidence. What the guys did was fantastic.»
Especially since, for him, “Aston Villa are a team that never give up». «We saw it at Arsenal last weekend (led 2-0, the Villans drew 2-2, Editor's note). But we don't give up either. I am very proud of what we did. We deserve this victory, given our energy, our desire to defend.»
Emery assumes a “error»
Happy with the performance of his striker Breel Embolo – “He had a fantastic match» – and defender Wilfried Singo, the only scorer of the game, he also highlighted his goalkeeper: “Radeck Majecki was also brilliant. He's a fighter. He showed it tonight.» «I hope that confidence will return thanks to this victory, he concluded. But now we also need to bounce back in the championship.»
-The opposition manager, Unai Emery, felt that Villa had played “70 minutes as (he) wishes.” “We controlled the match, even though our opponent played well in transition and we had problems on set pieces. We had three big opportunities to score. At this level, you have to score.»
While his team also “was horrible on offensive set pieces», «with seven corners without doing anything», he also accepted his mistake. “During the last 20 minutes, I positioned two central attackers and we lost track of our positioning on the pitch. It's my mistake“, he said, regretting having missed an opportunity to qualify directly for the round of 16.
