The Unai Emery Newcastle United press conference has taken place.

The Aston Villa manager speaking ahead of Sunday’s game on Tyneside

Unai Emery declaring: “We must recover after the match we played yesterday [in Turkey against Fenerbahce] and we must get focus and consistency in our preparation to get our demands.”

Newcastle United with the advantages of having played in Europe a day earlier this midweek AND at home.

After losing 5-1 and 3-0 the past two seasons at St James’ Park, Unai Emery saying: “Newcastle is always very difficult in their home. Historically in the last few years, it was horrible for us, really bad results. Each match, each season, each moment is an opportunity. I am looking forward to watching how we are facing them on Sunday.”

Aston Villa have actually only won twice at St James’ Park in the entire Premier League era, the most recent of those was 21 years ago.

Before facing Fenerbahce, Aston Villa lost 1-0 at Villa Park last weekend, Unai Emery explaining: “Now our focus is on the Premier League [after Fenerbahce in the Europa League] and in the Premier League we lost a very good opportunity against Everton on Sunday...