Unai Emery goes berserk as he berates his own Aston Villa players on touchline

manager recent frustrations leaked out during Saturday's 1-0 win against when he exploded at his players on the touchline. Villa returned to winning ways and resumed their push for back-to-back seasons after a nightmare five days, with Youri Tielemans' first-half header the difference.

In doing so, Emery's side matched their record 17-match unbeaten run at Villa Park in the Premier League, set two years ago in the Spaniard's first season. Villa also moved two points behind fourth-place Newcastle United with three games remaining and are closing in on sealing European football in some capacity. However, it's been a rough week for the Villans, and Emery's anguish was perhaps on show during a striking moment in the second half.

In the 55th minute, Alex Iwobi picked the ball up on the right flank halfway into Villa's half before producing a pinpoint cross for an onrushing Harry Wilson.

The Welshman was wasteful with his stretched strike after finding plenty of space between Matty Cash and Boubacar Kamara, and the chance went begging.

Despite Emiliano Martinez graciously collecting the stray ball, Emery let his players know exactly how he felt about Wilson's availability in the centre of the pitch.

The Villa boss was as animated as he has been since returning to the Premier League, uncontrollably shouting and repeatedly throwing his arm towards his targets.

Emery will have been relieved at the full-time whistle after securing a desperately needed morale booster to drown out two damaging results.

Last Saturday, Villa fell to a sorely disappointing 3-0 defeat against Crystal Palace in the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley.

Villa were the favourites to reach the final and move 90 minutes away from major silverware. However, they were outclassed by the Eagles on the day.

Earlier in the week, Emery's side were competitive in a six-pointer against Manchester City but fell to a crushing last-gasp defeat at the Etihad Stadium.

Marcus Rashford had responded from the penalty spot against his parent club Manchester United's bitter rivals after Bernardo Silva opened the scoring.

But Matheus Nunes sprung up with a 94th-minute winner to steal all three points for Pep Guardiola's hosts and seriously harm Villa's top-five aspirations.

The Midlands club are back on track, though, ahead of a potentially challenging run-in against Bournemouth, Tottenham Hotspur and a trip to Old Trafford to face United on the final day.