Beijing time (CEST) 19:30 on 19 September, in the 5th round of the Premier League, Aston Villa will face Tottenham Hotspur away. Villa manager Emery attended a pre-match press conference on Friday to provide updates on injuries and new player integration, as well as comment on this round's opponents, Tottenham Hotspur.

On Villa's Personnel Situation

We have too many injured players to mention one by one. Boubacar Kamara, Onana, Moussa Cissé, Pau Torres, Maatsen, Goretzka, and Marjo are all absent. I think that's quite a lot of injured players. The other players are ready.

On Resilience

We've participated in various competitions, and our performances vary according to the different demands and stages we're going through. We won two away matches against Coventry and Bruges and played very well, but in the Premier League, we've lacked ideal results and failed to demonstrate sufficient competitiveness, both collectively and individually. At the same time, we've also lacked progress in building our team system. We hope to see the team develop tomorrow, continue to progress, and reach the level of play we need.

This week we've discussed our pre-season preparation. For us, pre-season preparation is essentially still ongoing, because players like Manzanbi have only recently recovered from injury, João Gomes has only just returned from suspension, and Goretzka and Marjo are currently unable to play. Therefore, throughout the entire pre-season preparation phase, we've essentially only been able to use last year's squad for training.

Additionally, we've also been trying to develop some young players, such as George Hemmings and Marjo, but Marjo recovered from injury at the end of pre-season. We're now in the integration process, and the personnel situation might be better a month ago, but this is the reality now.

Players must gradually understand us. Wan-Bissaka needs to understand all our tactical requirements. He's now building confidence by accumulating playing time and gradually understanding our team, and Manzanbi is doing the same. Rugger made his debut on Tuesday, and he'll play again tomorrow. We need to see how he copes, how he understands everything, and adapts to the demands of opponents. We're currently in this process.

Of course, we must compete with our opponents and be ready to perform well enough both individually and collectively to face the challenge. This is the test we face tomorrow. However, in this process, I remain optimistic and hope everything goes smoothly according to plan. Integrating injured players and new players into the team and getting them to play together is a process we should go through naturally.

On the Challenges Faced

We're working hard to integrate various players into our system and philosophy, while also considering how each player performs when they first appear. Manzanbi is moving in this direction. Of course, the integration process is still far from complete. When we recruited players four years ago, three years ago, two years ago, I remember that in Tielemans' first year, he needed to sit on the bench, gradually adapt to the game, understand which position suited him better, sometimes playing as a No. 10, sometimes in midfield.

Morgan Rogers also needed to fully understand everything about the team in his first six months at Villa. Of course, now we hope new players can quickly demonstrate good performances – like Manzanbi, Rugger, Wan-Bissaka, and young players like Mbaye, Hemmings, and Marjo. Yes, we have such expectations, but we also must strive to compete and be patient while our Premier League results remain less than ideal.

On This Round's Opponents, Tottenham Hotspur

They're in a similar situation to us at the start of the season, but they have great potential. They invested heavily in the summer transfer window to recruit many excellent players, but they also need time for the entire team to integrate, truly understand and implement their manager's tactical philosophy.

Of course, De Zerbi is an excellent manager. He's led Brighton to play attractive football and achieve outstanding results. He also performed well when managing Shakhtar Donetsk, in Italy, and at Marseille.

Now I can see that this Tottenham Hotspur team is in the integration process. Of course, they're improving and performing very well on the pitch. Although they lost to Liverpool in the League Cup midweek, Tottenham Hotspur showed strong competitiveness.

Tottenham Hotspur is gradually starting to use the recently arrived players – Savinho, Pedro Porro, Marmoush, but their tactical philosophy and style of play, in general De Zerbi's style, continues to improve. Tomorrow's match will be a major challenge for us. We need to think about how to respond, how to play well within our system, how to maintain a compact shape, how to play with confidence, and how to compete with them in this difficult match.

Of course, this demands a lot from our defense, and at the same time, we must strive to take the initiative and control the rhythm of the game when we have possession. This is a real challenge. Of course, for Tottenham Hotspur, I expect them to finish in the top four.

On New Goalkeeper Emi Martinez

Some players need time to adapt to us, while others integrate into the team quickly. One of the quick integrators is Emi Martinez. He broadly understands how we want to build attacks, how the goalkeeper participates in attacks, including the first and second phases of attacks, and how to utilize the existing players to leverage his abilities, finding space behind the opposition defense with his accurate long passes. This is our collaborative process with him, but he's also actually given us confidence that he can quickly distribute the ball within our system and philosophy. He's playing very well.

On the International Break

This international break is crazy because it lasts three weeks. I really dislike having to wait three weeks to play again starting tomorrow, but we must accept the reality.

During this period, we can't use the players we want to train and integrate together. For example, Manzanbi, who has only just played two matches for us, and tomorrow will be his third, but then he'll go play for his national team. When he returns, we'll need to help him re-integrate into our system, and his form could also be disrupted as a result. But that's how it is, and we don't want to use the international break as an excuse. We'll arrange appropriate training based on available players, and those participating in national team matches will naturally go and play.

So tomorrow's match is very important for us because we're currently short on points. Of course, we'll continue to push our integration process, stay focused, take every match and every competition seriously, give our best every week, and at the same time try to help players adapt better to our tactical system.

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