Unai Emery has told Villa’s players to focus on football and forget settling scores when they face Brentford on Saturday.
The first meeting between the clubs in December has been dubbed one of the dirtiest matches in Premier League history, with both having a player sent-off and referee David Coote issuing a further 10 yellow cards.
Villa are known to have been unhappy with the conduct of their opponents at the time but now nearly four months on, Emery does not want any lingering bad blood to impact on their push for a top four finish. “If they are demanding us, playing with duels, we’ll try to do that but we are going to play football. Nothing more. I’m going to respect them.
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