Aston Villa boss Unai Emery praised Ollie Watkins after victory at Luton on Saturday.

Watkins scored twice in the 3-2 win.

Emery said, "Fantastic, brilliant. He is an example for other players. Every day he works hard and tries to learn more.

"His mentality is to increase his level, practising and practising. His commitment to work and the tactical idea we are doing in every match is fantastic.

"Then, he is scoring and he is getting chances. He is scoring, defending set-pieces. He is as well being strong and available for 90 minutes keeping good fitness.

"Really, he is fantastic. He needs his teammates as well to help him and we have to try to get individually our performances through the team.

"It is difficult to find players with a better mentality than his. Then, his quality and skills are high. He wants to learn every day to increase his level playing.

"His first objective is to help the team scoring goals, but he understands as well tactically being clever how he can apply our tactical idea.

"I don't know about outside here, but if we are now fourth in the table it is for everybody. But his impact as well helping us is high. He wants to progress and we wants to learn. This is the best mentality I want of the players.'

Asked if Watkins one of the best strikers in Europe, he added: "Yes, of course. He is showing it. The Premier League, La Liga, Italian, French league and German league, but the Premier League I think is the toughest in the world.

"He is being relevant here and his work is amazing. As a person he is humble. He avoids the ego and it doesn't change him. As a person he is fantastic and as a professional."