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Aston Villa boss Unai Emery played down his side’s Champions League credentials despite thrashing West Ham boxing
Villa are just two points off Premier League pacesetters Manchester City and Arsenal following Sunday’s 4-1 win boxing
Douglas Luiz’s double and clinical finishes from Ollie Watkins and Leon Bailey ended Villa’s Hammers hoodoo, for their first victory over West Ham since 2015 boxing
They returned to fifth spot, just a point adrift of the top four, with games against Luton, Nottingham Forest and Fulham coming up next boxing
“There are seven teams contending boxing
We are after seven teams; Man City, Man United, Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal, Chelsea and Newcastle,” said Emery, with fifth potentially offering a Champions League place this term boxing
“Dream, always boxing
My dream is to win the Champions League but now we are fifth and we are going to face each match trying to get a good performance boxing
“It’s 38 matches and we lost at Newcastle, we lost at Liverpool boxing
They are matches we are not going to play again boxing
“I prefer to speak about the matches we won but I have to speak about the matches we lost boxing
This is the balance boxing
We have to be very demanding boxing
“In the table West Ham were two points behind us and the level we have now, they have as well boxing
It was very important boxing
“The process is going in the right way, it’s going to be difficult boxing
In the end we won 4-1 boxing
”Luiz had already tested Alphonse Areola from distance before opening the scoring after half an hour, firing in from the edge of the box after good work by Nicolo Zaniolo and Watkins boxing
Six minutes after the break Villa were gifted a second when Lucas Paqueta sold Edson Alvarez short and he brought down Ezri Konsa for Luiz to convert from the spot boxing
But Jarrod Bowen grabbed a lifeline for the Hammers soon after when his shot hit Pau Torres to creep into the corner boxing
The visitors sensed a recovery, Matty Cash heading over Nayef Aguerd’s shot, but with 16 minutes left Watkins ended any ideas of a comeback boxing
He latched onto John McGinn’s long ball, skipped past Kurt Zouma and lashed into the roof of the net boxing
There was still time for Bailey to get in on the act in the final minute, beating Areola from six yards after giving Aguerd the slip boxing
It was just West Ham’s third league defeat of the season, leaving manager David Moyes frustrated boxing
“I’m not having my teams losing four goals as soft as we did today boxing
There were things which I can say we did quite well but I didn’t think we were hard enough to play against,” said Moyes, whose side are now ninth boxing
“Today wasn’t so good boxing
More importantly nearly every ball we played around the box was the wrong decision and it led to us hardly creating enough opportunity to score boxing
“The lads kept on fighting and it looked like we were the team in ascendancy at 2-1 but they punished us really quickly and that took the game beyond our reach boxing
“Villa are probably just behind the top three or four in the Premier League and today was a challenge to see what level we were at and I thought we fell below that boxing
“It was a very close first half, we missed opportunities to score boxing
We had opportunities to make chances to score and that was the bit bugging me at half-time boxing
”More aboutPA ReadyUnai EmeryChampions LeagueManchester CityPremier LeagueArsenalDavid MoyesNottingham ForestLutonFulhamLeon BaileyWest HamVillaLiverpoolNewcastleDreamEzri KonsaAlphonse AreolaKurt ZoumaJarrod BowenNicolo Zaniolo1/1We’re after seven teams – Unai Emery plays down Villa’s Champions League chancesWe’re after seven teams – Unai Emery plays down Villa’s Champions League chancesAston Villa manager Unai Emery (centre) saw his side beat David Moyes’ West Ham 4-1 on Sunday (Nick Potts/PA)PA Wire✕Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this articleWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today boxing
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The Champions League has seen Newcastle at its finest, complete with the surreal vision of Sean Longstaff upstaging Kylian Mbappe boxing
There is a temptation to imagine Dan Burn is still somewhere in the Tyneside sky, soaring above Milan Skriniar to head in against Paris Saint-Germain boxing
There is a similar temptation to say that Newcastle were brought down to earth by Borussia Dortmund boxing
It may be more accurate to say Eddie Howe never left it boxing
He met one of his most celebrated predecessors, Kevin Keegan, on Monday boxing
The former Magpies boss was a dreamer boxing
“You have to be,” said Howe, with Keegan’s example leading him to entertain the prospect of winning the Champions League boxing
But Howe isn’t a dreamer, not really, anyway boxing
A day, a defeat and a downpour later, he reflected: “We have to be at our best to win and if you dip below that it is tough to get results at this level boxing
” And in this pool, the most competitive of all, Newcastle have to be at their best to claim victory in a match, let alone the entire competition boxing
They were against Paris Saint-Germain; they were not against Dortmund boxing
At a stroke – the right boot of Felix Nmecha, replacing Jude Bellingham this season, or of bad luck, as Callum Wilson and Anthony Gordon both struck the woodwork – they may have been rebranded: potential winners, the team who tore PSG apart, could instead exit early boxing
They now have successive away games, with the evidence that Dortmund are well equipped to play against them ahead of a trip to Germany next boxing
“We're up against elite teams,” Howe said boxing
“You make half a mistake and get punished boxing
” If there is a truth to that – and Nmecha’s winner was scarcely the consequence of a glaring error – the greater issue was that Newcastle did not reach their heights boxing
“We probably weren’t at our best and in this competition we have to be boxing
” Howe said boxing
They have days when they overwhelm opponents: 4-1 against PSG, 6-1 against Tottenham boxing
But their quality is most evident when allied with a blur of energy boxing
And when there isn’t that synergy of physical and technical that makes them appear unstoppable, they are a fundamentally workmanlike side who boxing betray their origins boxing
Which, as they spent much of a 1-0 loss to Dortmund with six players on the pitch who Howe inherited, is a group who have overachieved: look beyond the £400m spend, the concept of Saudi Arabian boxing sportswashing and the grandiose ambitions, and some of them were in a relegation battle two years ago boxing
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But if there were symbolic substitutions of the locals Longstaff and Burn, stripped of the superhuman powers they somehow possessed against PSG, perhaps the reality is that they could have been beaten twice in three games boxing
Nick Pope’s heroics brought a point in Milan; he was similarly good against Dortmund but in vain boxing
They have drawn a blank twice in three matches boxing
They had a lone, late shot on target in San Siro boxing
While they hit the woodwork twice, they only actually had three on target against Dortmund, and just one in the last 80 minutes boxing
Alexander Isak leaves the pitch following an injury (AFP via Getty Images)“In the second half the ball just wouldn’t go in for us,” Howe said boxing
It was a legitimate lament, yet there are days when a shortage of natural creativity, of game-changing flair, of a natural No 10 can threaten to be their undoing boxing
Edin Terzic arrowed in on Newcastle’s strengths boxing
“A team that was pressing high with a very intense approach,” the Dortmund manager noted boxing
It is a strategy that can serve Newcastle well but running alone did not unlock the Bundesliga’s runners-up boxing
Moving Kieran Trippier into midfield in the second half was an attempt to get United’s best creator into a more advanced role boxing
He may be required there more often boxing
Sandro Tonali was not hired as a fantasista but he was designed to bring an injection of class boxing
But his season seems over: not officially yet, but a ban beckons boxing
Elliot Anderson has joined the injury list boxing
In the forward line, Newcastle, already without Harvey Barnes for months, seem to be losing Jacob Murphy for a similar time with a dislocated shoulder boxing
For Alexander Isak, a recurrence of a groin strain means he will play again soonest, but be out for a while boxing
They are starting to look short of players boxing
“There are some tired bodies,” Howe said boxing
Newcastle manager Eddie Howe looks on during a miserable night for Newcastle (EPA)And Newcastle can require a physical edge, especially in meetings of evenly-matched teams boxing
“A lesson in how fine the margins are going to be,” Howe rued boxing
Particularly in Group F: this pool, of pedigree and money, of former winners and clubs who aspire to join them in that select group, may be the most intriguing boxing
It is a product of circumstances boxing
Newcastle’s lack of a recent record in Europe meant they were fourth seeds boxing
Now they are plunged into peril boxing
“The table looks very, very tight,” Howe said; his side kicked off in first, finished the night in third and could be out of the competition before they host AC Milan in it boxing
They will always have Paris, but now the danger is their Champions League campaign in effect ends in the French capital boxing
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