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Unai Emery is excited about the chance of “smelling” a unique Wembley atmosphere when tomorrow leads Aston Villa to their semifinals fa cup against Crystal Palace.
Villa has not won the FA Cup since 1957, but it can take a significant step towards the end of the drought by watching the palaces and setting the last conflict either with Manchester City or Nottingham Forest.
The Cup win would be another significant step forward for Villa, which also returned to playing in the Champions League under Emery.
🗣️ Unai our opponents tomorrow: “They are a team that plays fantastic football, and I respect this coach because he is a winning coach.”
Read below for a chair of the heads of the boss ⬇️
– Aston Villa (@Avfcofficial) 25. April 2025
FA Cup still has a special attraction
An experienced experienced Spaniard has succeeded in Europe, but says he was still delighted with the FA Cup.
He said, “I’m a coach, I love and love my profession, my job. Yes, the smell of good stadiums, good playgrounds, I like it. And I’ll enjoy it tomorrow.
“Of course I have a great responsibility to try to react with the players in a good way. But I’m really so excited to play in matches like tomorrow and the opportunity to have in the FA Cup tomorrow and something special when you share it with your supporters because I know of supporters that something is special.”
The last defeat on Tuesday night in Manchester City, recessed the qualification of the Vile’s Champions League Nada, but Emery insists that they will continue to fight on both fronts to achieve their goals.
“When you start the season, you are trying to set up some goals at the end of the season through four competitions – Premier League, Champions League this year or Europe, FA Cup and Carabao Cup,” he added.
“And of course, we are still in two competitions now, the Premier League because it is 38 games and FA Cup.
“We are focused on every game in every competition, trying to do our best. And to be in Europe is one clear goal we have. The first way to come to Europe is through the Premier League. But getting a trophy in the Fa Cup you can also play the Europa League.
“This is the second goal we can have in the competition. Now we cannot choose only one competition. We choose both competitions strongly because we have two ways for our goal.”
FA Cup semi -final preparation ✅ pic.twitter.com/wqj9MY7DPH
– Aston Villa (@Avfcofficial) 25. April 2025
Emery thanks for Crystal Palace and Boss Glasner
Palace is the second side located on the trajectory, and Emery is a fan of southern London residents and their coach Oliver Glasner, especially after their rejection of the Villa in the Premier League 4-1 in February.
Emery said, “We always respect them. But they act fantastic against us. We will try to recognize our ability to dominate the match again, impose our positioning, our combination with the players, our individual duels. They are a team that play fantastic football, fantastic football.
“And I respect this coach because he is a winning coach. He won the Europe League and his experiences here in England with Crystal Palace this year were really fantastic. He comes to the semifinals and performs very well.
“Sometimes he doesn’t achieve the result to be better in the league, but they work very well. They have shown this against us and of course, you know that and I respect them a lot.”
