Aston Villa manager Unai Emery has given his verdict on Aston Villa’s 2-0 victory over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.

Emery told Sky Sports: “It’s not easy to come here. We prepared for the match thinking we might struggle, which we did at times in the first half.

We started very well the first 20 minutes, and then after our goal the defence and the goalkeeper were very important.

“At half time we discussed that sometimes you have to struggle before you can score, to be mentally clever to know that sometimes that is the way you win. We spoke about how we could better and manage their attacks, which I think we managed to do well in the second half.”