'How we can change our performance at home is very, very important'
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Boss Unai Emery has demanded home improvement from Aston Villa after using an expletive to describe their recent home form.
Villa host Brentford in the Premier League on Saturday looking for their first home win of the season.
Wins over Club Brugge in the Champions League, Coventry in the Carabao Cup and a Premier League victory at Tottenham came before the break.
But Villa have lost their home games against Arsenal and Nottingham Forest, with the unbeaten Bees up next at Villa Park.
Emery said: "I am especially happy how we finished before the break, especially in Bruges, against Coventry, against Tottenham.
"But we played a very [expletive] match against Nottingham Forest at home. So how we can react, how we can change our performance at home is very, very important.
"We need the performance. How we are building the team, how we are adapting to the players we added is very, very important.
"They are going very well and they will need more time. But, as fast as possible, we have to build our structure stronger, like we did the last year."
The head coach has also refused to blame the redevelopment of the North Stand for Villa's poor home form.
The stand is being rebuilt to take Villa Park's capacity to over 50,000 and has left one end of the stadium empty.
"No excuses. No excuses. It's a plan for the club to improve, to add more supporters this year and we must sacrifice this year," he added.
The media were barred from asking questions about Manchester City and their guilty verdict at Emery's pre-match news conference on Friday.
An independent commission found City guilty of all charges relating to breaches of the Premier League's financial regulations between the 2009-10 and 2017-18 seasons.
The club have appealed against the verdict and claimed in a statement the commission's ruling contained "clear material errors, of law, principle and fact and is unsafe".
Villa host City on 24 October so it is inevitable those questions will still be there in two weeks.
