Unai Emery is hoping Aston Villa can channel their competitive spirit once more as they aim for a first home win of the season against Everton.
Villa have so far won both of their away matches against West Ham and Leicester City by a 2-1 scoreline, digging deep to get their six points on the board.
However, they struggled at home against Arsenal, losing 2-0 despite having more attempts and creating a higher expected goals tally.
And despite Everton s recent struggles, Emery expects them to have to fight for the three points when they face off at Villa Park.
Every game is difficult, but we compete, Emery said. We did against Arsenal as well. We compete really well.
Competitive is what we want to be, but we always want to improve and try to perfor…