Unai Emery still wants more from 'fantastic' Aston Villa man
Unai Emery has praised the “power” of Amadou Onana and urged the Villa midfielder to maintain his current performance levels.
The Belgium international’s display in Sunday’s 1-0 win over Manchester City was among his best since joining from Everton in a £50million club record deal 15 months ago.
Emery has demanded more consistency from Onana this season after a debut campaign in which he started only 20 Premier League matches.
And while he believes the 24-year-old has been “fantastic” since returning from a hamstring injury earlier this month, he wants him to now keep hitting those levels.
“He (Onana) is getting his challenge as well, to do one step forward,” said Emery.
“We were speaking about it, after last year he was not consistent. This year he started off being injured but after that he went with his national team, played one match and tried to get fit quick.
“With us he tries to play in our structure as well as possible with his qualities and his power.
“Those two matches we played at Tottenham and on Sunday he was really fantastic.”
Villa head to Liverpool on Saturday night aiming for a fifth straight Premier League win.
Emery is yet to beat the Reds in six attempts since taking charge of Villa three years ago, his longest winless streak against any current top flight club.
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