Unai Emery feels Aston Villa have blown their Champions League top-eight chances

“When we are playing games like today, it’s important to get three points because I think we lost the opportunity to get in the top eight,” he told reporters in Monaco.

Unai Emery was not happy with what he saw from Aston Villa in Monaco (Laurent Cipriani/AP)

Aston Villa boss Unai Emery thinks his side could have blown their chances of earning automatic qualification to the last 16 of the Champions League.

Villa could have put one foot in the next round had they beaten Ligue 1 side Monaco, but they succumbed to Wilfried Singo’s early goal and could not find a way back.