Aston Villa boss Unai Emery was unsurprisingly delighted with his side's performance in our 2-0 win over Arsenal on Sunday. Goals from Leon Bailey and Ollie Watkins sealed the three points on a memorable evening at the Emirates, as it could prove to be a huge result in our pursuit of Champions League qualification.

After a battling first half where we had to show defensive resilience but also still managed to show an attacking threat, Villa were brilliant after the break as we grew into the game and started to gain more control and possession.

That was the assessment from Emery too as he lauded the second half performance from the players, while also suggesting that lessons were learned from our defeat at Manchester City earlier this month.

"Before the match we were very motivated and very excited about the possibility," he told Sky Sports, as per BBC Sport.

"This is a very tough match and we needed to be focusing very well defensively. We wanted to be strong and have high commitment to defence as were in the first half. We tried to do 90 minutes being consistent and wait for our moment to control the game.

"The first half was more difficult but we tried to dominate with the ball. We did that less than in the second half.

"Second half we competed very well. But we are not being consistent in every match like I want. But today we were fantastic.

"We analyse deeply before each match and we played 10 days ago at Manchester City and lost 4-1. We were trying to understand a lot of things we did good but we needed one step to do something better.

"Today was an example. Firstly, it was in defence. The defence was strong. We tried to be narrow and avoid line passes then being compact with the players. More or less, that was the first idea we had.

"Then it as about trying to get time with the ball. We did, better in the second half and we imposed ourselves."

Villa moved back into fourth place as a result of this weekend's results, and it will hopefully prove to be the catalyst for a big finish to the campaign now, starting in Europe on Thursday night.

As reiterated by Emiliano Martinez after the game though, as superb a result as this is, there is still work to be done in our final five Premier League games to achieve our objective as we've put a disappointing run behind us.

All the players deserve credit for the shift that they put in on Sunday, but Emery himself should be applauded too for putting together a game-plan and set-up that proved to be effective, and ultimately produced a huge win.