Aston Villa boss Unai Emery has urged he’ll play each Ollie Watkins and Jhon Duran collectively within the Champions League recreation at RB Leipzig on Tuesday.
The 2 forwards have began alongside one another within the Villa assault simply twice since Duran joined the membership in January 2023.
As a substitute, Emery has often favoured beginning one over the opposite, however he says he’s eager to attempt to get them to work properly as a pair.
“The following problem I’ve is to play with each,” stated Emery.
“We try and I’ll attempt once more to play with each. We’ve to maintain the steadiness, tactically, taking part in with each. The workforce is all the time first.”
Duran has develop into generally known as one thing of an excellent sub for Villa given his goalscoring exploits when coming off the bench.
Nonetheless, he began because the lone striker towards Southampton on the weekend and scored the sport’s solely aim as Villa recorded back-to-back wins within the Premier League.
“They’re each superb strikers – every of them are totally different,” added Emery.
“Watkins is getting extra experiences with the [England] nationwide workforce and with us in Europe, being constant, being aggressive all the time in all the pieces we want on the sphere.
“Jhon Duran has massive potential. He’s progressively getting higher. His adaptation began two years in the past and it is a lot better than the method we had.”
Villa have received three of their 5 video games in Europe up to now, though their most up-to-date outcomes have been a 1-0 loss to Membership Brugge and a goalless draw with Juventus.
RB Leipzig, in the meantime, have misplaced each recreation they’ve performed up to now in Europe.
“That is day six and it is essential as a result of we will really feel we’re near the following spherical, however now we have the chance to be within the high eight,” added Emery.
“This match may be very tough towards Leipzig, who have been contenders firstly of the competitors greater than us to be within the high eight or high 24.
“They’ve had a very laborious schedule, taking part in towards loads of superb groups.”
