Aston Villa boss Unai Emery will demand extra from Ollie Watkins as he challenged the striker to attain extra targets.
The supervisor needs Villa’s present high scorer to up his sport forward of Sunday’s journey to Manchester City.
Danny Ings was bought to West Ham for £15million in January with Cameron Archer additionally becoming a member of Middlesbrough on mortgage, leaving Watkins Villa’s solely senior striker – regardless of teenager Jhon Duran’s arrival.
Watkins has two targets in his final two video games – and 6 for the season – with Emery desirous to see him produce extra.
“Ollie Watkins, his best characteristic as a striker is to be close to scoring, to be close to assisting and to be close to fighting with the defence, as he is doing,” he stated.
“He will need his team-mates to help him achieve his objectives. At the beginning each match, for me and for them, is an exam on how we can respond.
“At the moment, he is doing well but I want to be more demanding with him because I think he can play better than he is doing.
“When he is scoring and he is helping the team to win, we can be happy. Everyone can do more and he is one of them.”
Villa go to the Etihad having gained all three of their away Premier League video games below Emery – beating Brighton, Tottenham and Southampton.
They have solely gained two of their house video games – together with Emery’s opener towards Manchester United in the beginning of November – having additionally been surprised by Stevenage within the FA Cup at Villa Park.
Emery advised a press convention: “It’s very strange because at the beginning it was more difficult to play away and the challenge was to play away. Now, we are taking points and being very, very competitive away.
“At home, we are not being as competitive as we have to be. Each match for us is part of our process of how we want to improve and win as a team.
“I try in each match to take good decisions around the tactical way and being firm with playing in our idea.
“I want to play the same matches in the same competitive way at home and away. We are going to focus on this Sunday’s match, trying to get the same performance away as we did before.”