Aston Villa climbed in the top six of the Premier League, the first goals of Morgan Rogers and Donyell Malen won a 2-1 victory against the third Nottingham forest on Saturday. A seventh consecutive victory for the men of Unai Emery in all the competitions invents Villa perfectly for Wednesday’s trip to Paris Saint-Germain during the first leg of their quarter-final of the Champions League. The hot sequence of Villa also brought them well to the race for football from the Champions League next season.
A top five of the Premier League will be almost certainly enough to qualify thanks to the high performance of English teams in European competition this season.
Villa is seated below Manchester City, fifth, on the difference in goals and moved to a Chelsea point in fourth position.
“We love competition in the Champions League and FA Cup, but the Premier League is the most important because it is through the League that we can reach our goal for the next season,” said Emery.
The Forest cushion on Villa is reduced to six points, leaving the Nuno Espirito Santo team a lot of work to do during their last seven games to get a return to the elite of European football for the first time since they were holders in 1980.
Emery had an eye on the trip to his former club in the middle of the week when he made eight changes compared to the impressive 3-0 victory on Wednesday in Brighton.
The Spanish decision to inject fresh legs was justified in a flight departure, because the local team led 2-0 in 15 minutes.
The skillful touch of Rogers to control the ball of your Tielemans on the top at the height of the international in England to caress his 13th goal of a season of small groups.
Malen was overshadowed by the impact of the impact by the companions of January Marcus Rashford and Marco Asensio.
However, the Dutch international now has two goals in two games after having given a low delivery from Ian Maatsen.
Forest seemed tired by preventing Manchester United on Tuesday only on Tuesday three days after having been forced to prolongs and penalties from Brighton to reserve their place in the semi-finals of the FA Cup.
Villa and Forest could meet again in the FA Cup final if they won their last four links later this month.
Visitors took 45 minutes to find their feet but came out on a different side in the second half.
“Normally, we are still starting very well and the big lesson was that we cannot start a game as bad as today,” said Nuno.
The forest boss’s decision to sacrifice the Anthony Elaga form for Jota Silva at the break proved to be an inspired change.
Villa failed to take into account the warnings of the forest while Neco Williams and Callum Hudson-Odoi drew just at the start of the second period.
Silva turned to the Williams cross over 56 minutes to half the arrears.
Elliott Anderson was then a few centimeters from an equalizer while the effort of the former Newcastle midfielder made a break from Target.
Emery turned to his talented bench to try to turn the tide while Rashford, Jacob Ramsey and Boubacar Kamara came right after the hour.
But it was Rogers who had the greatest chance of securing the three points when he failed to beat Matz Salts head-on.
This stay gave forest life and they could have grasped a point where Williams shot the goal before Murillo’s long -range effort hit the bar in time.
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