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Villa boss Emery: Olympiacos favourites

Olympiacos boss Jose Luis Mendillabar believes their tie against Aston Villa is not finished.

The Greek side lead 4-2 after the first leg in England and have a two goal lead to defend at home.

However, Villa boss Unai Emery disagreed and said that Olympiacos may be favorites.

"After the first leg they are favourites," Emery told reporters.

"It's not a surprise for me [how they played in the first leg], everything I watched they delivered. It was how they were competing previously.

"They have more or less being successful in Europe and when we were playing 90 minutes there and some circumstances happened it was not a surprise but some circumstances against us we are always making some mistakes and they were clinical and they were very competitive and we couldn't stop them in some tactical ways that we usually can.

"Tomorrow is a challenge to be clinical and stop them and try and control them in 90 minutes and if we create chances and being clinical we could be close to draw the match and then hopefully it's going long more than 90 minutes, it would be good news for us."

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