Aston Villa skipper John McGinn insists that everyone astatine nan nine is excited isolated from Unai Emery and hailed nan Spaniard arsenic 1 of 'our club's top managers' aft his broadside made it 3 wins retired of 3 successful nan Champions League.
'We are excited,' McGinn stressed. 'I deliberation nan head is nan only personification who does not get excited. He focuses his afloat power each nan time, for illustration he says each azygous day, that he is demanding connected us.
'He does not fto america return our ft disconnected nan state truthful we tin usage our energy, enthusiasm and nan excitement we person but his determination and strength is unmatched.
'No matter what happens until now and whenever he leaves – we dream it's ne'er – he will surely spell down arsenic 1 of our club's top managers.'
Asked what Emery was for illustration arsenic a person, McGinn added: 'He is conscionable truthful driven. I person ne'er met anyone for illustration him.
Villa skipper John McGinn (right) has heaped praise connected head Unai Emery (left)
The Scot says Emery has had a profound effect connected nan nine since taking complete successful 2022
Emery (pictured) he says, will apt spell down arsenic 1 of nan club's 'greatest-ever managers'
'He has said to maine a fewer times that he was an good footballer but he wishes he had nan determination and work-rate he has arsenic a manager.
'No 1 tin mobility what he puts in, nan effort and everything which comes his measurement and our measurement is connected nan backmost of difficult work.
'You provender disconnected your leader. He is our leader and we provender disconnected that. He is surely improving a batch of us. There is simply a awesome emotion to nan place.'
McGinn, who missed nan triumph complete Bayern Munich owed to injury, scored nan opening extremity successful Villa's triumph complete Bologna connected Tuesday nighttime pinch a wide free-kick that coiled in, evading everyone and ending up successful nan backmost of nan net.
It was nan 30-year-old's first ever Champions League extremity and he revealed nan move was thing that Villa person worked connected pinch setpiece coach Austin MacPhee.
'The extremity is thing we worked on,' said McGinn. 'It happened astatine Man Utd past season, aiming for nan backmost post. I felt a spot of a fraud celebrating but it meant a lot. We activity connected it a lot.
'The wide free-kicks astatine location to United nan different week were a spot of a problem truthful we worked connected it a mates of days agone heavily.
'The boys were rather adjacent to getting a touch but thankfully it went each nan measurement successful and I will return it,' nan Scotland world added.
Jhon Duran scored nan 2nd but was visibly disappointment erstwhile Emery took him disconnected for Ollie Watkins though McGinn insisted that nan Colombian 'wasn't doing it successful a bad way' contempt Emery stressing post-match that his players must respect nan values of nan club.
'[Duran] has been brilliant. He is personification who is afloat of life, afloat of characteristic and he has awesome humour.
'I deliberation nan entity is nan limit for him. He is truthful focused and he looks for illustration he is really enjoying his football. I said to him successful nan dressing room earlier nan game, really galore are you going to score? He said 2 but 1 will do,' said McGinn.
McGinn shared his thoughts connected Villa's Champions League triumph complete Bologna connected Tuesday
McGinn opened scoring pinch a coiled free-kick earlier Jhon Duran scored to seal nan 2-0 win
'I deliberation he conscionable wanted to play more. He wasn't doing it successful a bad way. I was location keeping an oculus connected him.
'He was saying he was enjoying it and wanted different 10 minutes but we person nan luxury of having him and Ollie [Watkins]. Two apical strikers and agelong whitethorn that continue.'
Villa invited Bournemouth connected Saturday, wherever triumph would put them conscionable 1 constituent down convention leaders Liverpool, who recreation to Arsenal connected Sunday.