Unai Emery has the chance to write his name in Europa League history once more on Wednesday night, as Villarreal take on Manchester United in the final.

Victory in Gdansk would see him lift his fourth Europa League title, overtaking Giovanni Trapattoni as the most successful coach in the competition's history.

With a daunting task awaiting, Emery explains to MARCA why he is relishing the challenge.

Q: Would you say that Villarreal signed you in order to reach the Europa League Final and then to win it?

A: At the start, we never spoke about objectives. They never said: 'We want to win and we want you to come to do this'. The main objective that I set out to achieve with Villarreal was play European football regularly. To be in the Europa League regularly, as well as the Champions League. And then to break the barrier of reaching four European semi-finals and the barrier to reach the Copa del Rey semi-final. The people at the club believed that with my experience, I could help them take this step.

When you reached the Europa League Final, did you feel that a weight had been lifted off the club?

A: If I feel proud of something in this final, it is breaking that barrier, it is managing to bring that excitement to Villarreal, to take Villarreal past the semi-finals after experiencing so much frustration. Always placing a lot of value on what the club had achieved before, but breaking another barrier. Having said that, the objective of both myself and the club has to be: 'We made it, but we cannot stay here, we must keep improving,' and that is also very difficult, but those are the challenges.

Q: Would you say that you have enjoyed a perfect competition up to this point?

A: We did very well in the groups stages and the knockout rounds, in a very serious and mature way, respecting our opponents and the competition.

Q: From the outside, it has even seemed easy:

A: In some matches, we had the match tied up after the first 90 minutes and then a half of the return match and we said: 'Are the other team bad?' But they are not bad, they are very good, but we are playing in such a mature way that we are minimising their play and the effect of their individual players thanks to our work. We placed a lot of emphasis on doing that.

Q: And in the final? Will you look to score first and take risks?

A: In a final of 90 minutes, of 120 minutes or penalties, a lot of things can happen. There will be moments for Manchester United, there will be moments for Villarreal, let's see who makes the most of them. How many moments will Manchester United or Villarreal have? Normally, United will have more and we have to work to ensure that they don't have more. And ater, it is about being capable of taking advantage of your moments. Normally the favourite wins? Yes. That is reality, but we are going to try with our options, with confidence and a lot of security.

Q: You refer a lot to 'breaking barriers'.

A: You have to go through those barriers breaking them, playing, creating a climate of confidence in your playing style, in your teammates so that they feel comfortable and that it the work of the coach and it is what we are trying to do. If we are going to play against Manchester United and we go out onto the pitch trembling, logically we will have few chances, but I believe that this team will never go out trembling.

Source: https://www.marca.com/en/football/spanish-football/2021/05/25/60ad30dbca474129768b45b3.html

Make man-U no go fall our hands dis one wey there leg don dey shake ...the 2 cups suppose enter england

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Some minutes to kick off
So We give it to Man United

Final score;

ManU 3: 1 Villarreal

Argue with your keyboard.

Up man-u

We dey here � � �

Villarreal 2:1 Womanchester Urinated

Good luck unai emery

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Villareal will win

Take your L in peace

Chukwueze for the win

mespusinglez:
Villerreal 2:1 Womanchester Urinated

clown

Mr good "ebening", Europa league speacialist....best wishes to your team today.

mespusinglez:
Villerreal 2:1 Womanchester Urinated

supported

Iheanacho the senior man don carry FA cup, Chukwueze the Alaye will carry Europa cup too.

No be bottle coke be that?

They couldn't even buy plastic one, poor people.

Naija mentality.



That was how Buhari and yemi osinjo deceived a lot of mumu people with satchet Dano milk and milk. At other time, it was a torn bedbug infested chair that he acted drama on, and that was another campaign strategy that he doesn't care for lavish lifestyle.


You see nigeria ba, na another word for mumu. Pure water now is #20 and no one has hit the street yet. Plastic bottles of mineral #150, bottled water #100. Poly nylon bag #30, same razor blade. Wouldn't want to dive into food stuff now, I heard that beans is now bossing rice in terms of price, #500.


Buhari, may you not rest well in grave for allowing his people to carry out their evils in your name, after death.


Yemi osinjo and aisha claiming to be saints but they are shielding and incubating evils.

pascalbenz:
U

there should be a man before your u

Congratulations to man untied fc in dvance

That fear factor is gradually lil by lil coming back to Manchester United where opponents reckon them, all thanks to Ole's vision

Just with few more solid signings this summer, we probably might start to get to see a feel of United of olden days or even something better.

oluseyiforjesus:
clown

Is that your mama's Middle name?

over sabi kee you there

Lanretoye:
there should be a man before your u

With wat he said Villarreal has won

United for life

oluseyiforjesus:
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Miliaka ni

I belong to everybody and i belong to nobody, may the lucky team win the day.