Unai Emery conceded that Aston Villa are prepared to expect everything despite taking a 3-1 lead in their Champions League round of 16 first leg with Club Brugge. 

Emery watched on Leon Bailey's early strike was cancelled out by Maxim De Cuyper's well-taken finish, with the spoils looking set to be shared until the closing stages. 

Brandon Mechele turned into his own net in the 82nd minute before Marco Asensio sealed the win from the penalty spot shortly after to put Villa in control of the tie. 

Indeed, Villa scored more goals against Brugge (three) than they had in their previous five meetings with Belgian sides in all competitions combined (two).

But at times during the contest, Emery cut a frustrated figure on the sidelines, with his emotion seeing him receive a yellow card for his troubles. 

And despite their two-goal advantage in the tie, the Spaniard insisted that his team should not think they have already reached the quarter-finals stages of the competition. 

"Very important. A very tough match. The idea was to compete how much the players showed there," Emery said.

"Of course, we could play better, but sometimes competing can get your target, and today we showed it.

"We struggled sometimes defending, we needed the goalkeeper and needed the last action with Tyrone Mings. Of course, it is a good result, but we are getting balance as well.

"Individual skills and individual performances are very important for the team. Leon Bailey scoring today is fantastic.

"We played 90 minutes today, we know we have to play another 90 minutes, continuing the gameplan we had today.

"We have to be ready to get extra time and the penalty shootout because we have to expect everything."

Emery also praised Tyrone Mings for his performance on Tuesday, earning some sort of redemption following his display against Brugge in the league phase of the competition.

Just 118 days after Mings inexplicably picked up a goal kick in the penalty area to send Villa to defeat in November, he redeemed himself with a sensational goal-saving clearance from Hans Vanaken's header which swung the balance of the match.

"It is very important getting experiences. The first experience he had here was not good, but today he reacted fantastic, playing focused, seriously, saving one action. That was a goal," Emery added. 

"We are demanding everyone inside. I am demanding with the players, and they have to be demanding themselves.

"Of course I know the difficulties in football and how we can (have) experiences and how we can get better and analyse everything deeply and try and correct it. That is my only target with the players.

"We corrected something from the match we played here. Of course, we have to correct something we didn’t do well today here for the next week against Bruges."