Aston Villa manager Unai Emery has said that his players must stop ignoring his 'demands' and should be 'more clinical' after their shock loss to Stevenage in the FA Cup third-round.
Despite taking a 1-0 lead from Morgan Sanson after 33 minutes, a late spot-kick from Jamie Reid and a 90th-minute winner by Dean Campbell sent the Boro through to the fourth round where they'll play Stoke City.
But ahead of their match against Leeds United next weekend, Emery says that he can't use magic to help the players while they're on the pitch and that they must start listening to him.
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"The idea is that in two or three years and I am still here, really, we can speak that the process was being consistent, demanding and achieving in each moment of the target we are setting.
"An ambitious objective but, as well, it’s not going to be easy. I am not magical here to come here and change everything. Now it’s fantastic, we got 10 points from 15 but the last match we played against Wolves I was very, very upset because I was like, ‘Hey, we are starting so quickly again… not doing the tactical or individual demands I want to put out'. And today it was different, completely different.
"Today we lost and we were totally disappointed. We can be so sorry with our supporters but this can happen when you have chances and don't score. We weren't clinical. This is not for tactically because we weren’t really focused in 90 minutes.
"No, it was because it can happen when you have chances and moments and you didn’t do it."
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