Spanish football manager and current manager of English Premier League side Aston Villa, Unai Emery Etxegoien, has joined the elite group of Spanish managers to win 25 or more games in the UEFA Champions League competition.
Unai Emery, led Aston Villa to an incredible 2:0 win over Italian side Bologna at the Villa Park, a win that ensures stays unbeaten in this season’s UEFA Champions League.
Second half goals from John Mcginn and Jhon Duran, was all that The Lions needed to equalled a club record of three successive wins in the European Cup/Champions League as their 100% start to the 2024-25 European campaign continued with a 2-0 win over Bologna.
Early victories without conceding in the UEFA Champions League against Young Boys and German giants Bayern Munich means Aston Villa under Unai Emery, have become only the third side in Champions League history to win each of their first three games in the competition without conceding.
The win at the Villa Park, also ensured Emery became only the fifth Spanish coach to reach 25 wins in the Champions League.
Pep Guardiola, Rafael Benetiz, Vicente del Bosque, and Luis Enrique, are the only Spanish Managers to have win more goals in the UEFA Champions League than Luis Enrique.
Unai Emery, started his UEFA Champions League campaign at Valencia, where he took charge of 19 UCL games, winning 5, drawing 5m, and loosing 4, in the 2012-13 season, he led Spartak Moscow to 1 UCL victory while losing 4 out of the 5 UCL game he took charge at the team.
During his days at Sevilla, the team played 6 games in the UEFA Champions League, they lost 4 and won 2 out of those 6 games. Unai Emery led PSG to two consecutive Round 16 stage in the UCL from 2016 to 2018, taking charge of 16 UCL game, he led the Pariseans to 9 victories, 3 draws and 4 defeats.
Unai Emery’s last defeat in the Champions came in the 2021/22 season when he took charge of Villareal CF, the Yellow Submarine played 12 games in the UCL, won 5, draw 3 and lost 4 under Unai Emery.
At Aston Villa, Emery is yet to loose a UCL game, as The Lions are undefeated and only the third side in Champions League history to win each of their first three games in the competition without conceding.
Unai Emery, has played a total of 56 UEFA Champions League games, won 25, drawn 11 and lost 20.
Source: Elvisanokyenews.com
