Unai Emery details the 'challenge' of navigating a congested fixture schedule as Aston Villa look towards hosting Bayern Munich - after his side had to settle for a point against Ipswich

Unai Emery has refuted suggestions that Aston Villa will struggle to summon nan power for adjacent week’s Champions League showdown against Bayern Munich pursuing a breathless 2-2 tie pinch Ipswich Town connected Sunday.

The Villans took a constituent from Portman Road aft an aggravated and draining clash, but they had to withstand immoderate dense 2nd half unit from Kieran McKenna’s men.

Villa return to action connected Wednesday erstwhile they return connected nan German giants - who played connected Saturday truthful person an other day’s remainder - successful their first location crippled successful Europe's elite nine title since 1983.

‘We are going to suspend nan lucifer connected Wednesday then,’ Emery joked. ‘We are going to inquire for 1 much week to rest.

‘What do we want? We want to play successful Europe. We want to play successful matches connected Sunday and Wednesday and to get to nan aforesaid levels arsenic City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham.

‘If you don’t want it, OK. We are not playing successful Europe and resting each week. It’s nan situation we person for nan players, myself, nan supporters, moreover nan journalists.

‘If we don’t want to play astatine this level, we are going to get comfortable playing successful nan apical 10. This is our situation and my demands arsenic well. But, connected Wednesday, each subordinate is going to beryllium fantastic.’

Ollie Watkins and Morgan Rogers some scored connected Sunday to proceed their bully form, but Villa’s capacity dipped successful nan 2nd half and they were possibly fortunate to flight pinch nan point.

And Emery admitted he had nary qualms astir nan result, but insisted his broadside must support learning and processing from reliable games for illustration this.

‘The consequence is fair,’ he added. 'We are successful a process arsenic a squad wherever we tin build our mentality, tactically, and pinch immoderate caller players getting better.

‘We controlled nan lucifer for illustration we were readying successful nan first half, but we request to beryllium accordant successful controlling nan crippled for illustration we didn’t do (in nan 2nd half).

‘They are bully and we could’ve mislaid nan lucifer astatine nan end. I’m not accepting nan consequence successful my thought of raising our levels and demands, but I judge it successful nan process.’

Meanwhile, Kieran McKenna was pleased pinch his side’s show aft Liam Delap’s 2 goals helped them to unafraid their 4th successive draw, though Ipswich are still chasing a first Premier League triumph of nan season.

‘We consciousness for illustration we’re really competitory successful each game,’ he said. ‘Each crippled is different and it’s not for illustration we request an other 2 per cent and we will win. It’s not a linear statement and we person to commencement from scratch each week.

‘But there’s much bully things successful each capacity and coming was nan astir clear chances that we’ve created.

‘That’s a large positive. We cognize nan first measurement for america is being competitory each week, going toe-to-toe pinch teams and being successful nan game, to springiness america nan chance to get a win.

‘We’re going to person to do that for each 38 games and it doesn’t get immoderate easier. But we’ll spell pinch a batch of nan aforesaid characteristics from coming and hopefully nan results will springiness america what we merit astatine nan extremity of nan season.’