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Aston Villa boss Unai Emery has been speaking to the media before Sunday's Europa League game against Lille at The Stade Pierre-Mauroy (kick-off 17:45 GMT).
Here are the key lines from his news conference:
- John McGinn has travelled with the squad to Lille but Matty Cash is unavailable and hasn't travelled.
- On McGinn being available: "It is important, but every player is important."
- On Emiliano Martinez facing Lille again, after he was shown a second yellow card in a penalty shootout between the two teams in 2024: “In our structure, we are speaking about the emotions. We must control our collective emotions, individual emotions, but tomorrow we are here to play a match. Martinez has a lot of experience playing with the national team.”
- He adds that playing against Lille away from home last year, the atmosphere was "very, very difficult" and that he expects a "difficult" match.
- On Lucas Digne and his potential of getting more game time: "He's a fantastic player and guy. He has another very good player competing with him to play as left-back. We are together three-and-a-half years, he's been very consistent and of course he's a very important player for us. He came back with his national team because he was playing fantastic."
