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Unai Emery insists Aston Villa must learn how to handle European football and refused to blame his changes after their sloppy 3-2 defeat at Legia Warsaw.<\/p>\n

Ernest Muci\u2019s second-half winner clinched a deserved victory for the hosts to ruin Villa\u2019s Europa Conference League debut.<\/p>\n

Jhon Duran and Lucas Digne twice levelled for the underwhelming visitors in the first half after Pawel Wszolek and Muci scored for Legia.<\/p>\n

It ranked as one of the worst performances in Emery\u2019s 11 months in charge, with the manager making five changes, including giving a debut to Barcelona loanee Clement Lenglet.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI believe in our squad and our players and we could have lost this game with other players on the pitch.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEvery match away in Europe is difficult and this is a new step where we have to learn.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still have the possibility to react again, we are going to play another five matches. It\u2019s not a good result but we have to learn and have to understand how we\u2019re going to face the next matches and this competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to build the squad who will play a lot of matches and we will need players in the squad to give them opportunities to play, to use their qualities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the second half we started well but in one click, we concede another opportunity and they score a goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had a plan, they did good and we couldn\u2019t stop them in some moments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Legia struck after just two minutes in the Group E opener when Wszolek converted Patryk Kun\u2019s cross.<\/p>\n

Duran levelled four minutes later, though, nodding in after Kacper Tobiasz turned Nicolo Zaniolo\u2019s drive onto the bar.<\/p>\n

It should have given Villa a platform but a shoddy, slow, performance continued to undermine their tag as one of the tournament favourites.<\/p>\n

Livewire Muci punished them again after 26 minutes when Villa were left floundering on the flanks and he fired in Wszolek\u2019s centre.<\/p>\n

But Villa came back, however undeserved, and Digne\u2019s deflected volley ensured they went into the break level.<\/p>\n

Parity did not last long, though, when Muci went sent running at Ezri Konsa and Calum Chambers, made fools of them both and found the net off a post.<\/p>\n

This time there was no way back and Marc Gual almost added a fourth when Emi Martinez parried Bartosz Slisz\u2019s shot and Chambers cleared.<\/p>\n

Jacob Ramsey, Moussa Diaby and Youri Tielemans tried to find an unlikely leveller but victorious Legia held on.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou should not underestimate the underdogs, Mostar will also be a hot game, a Balkan team with a lot of emotions,\u201d said boss Kosta Runjaic, after Mostar beat AZ Alkmaar 4-3 in the other group game.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s surprise for me but it\u2019s also a surprise we won against Aston Villa, I\u2019m happy about it, this three points in the first game are very important for us. We were lucky in some moments but you need luck.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will see how we do in the next game, we will face a very ugly Alkmaar in a couple of weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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