Marseille boss Roberto De Zerbi has revealed why he had a pop at Aston Villa boss Unai Emery at the end of Saturday’s pre-season friendly at the Stade Vélodrome.

It was a heated affair between Villa and their Ligue 1 counterparts, mainly as a result of the Marseille players trying to get their sell-out crowd off their seats .

After conceding early, Villa skipper John McGinn responded in the eighth minute to level the score after Mason Greenwood’s opener.

A late double from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang downed Villa, but more than anything else, Emery will be relieved his squad escaped injury after full-time, given that tempers flared in the second half.

Clearly angry at some of the tackles Marseille players were making, and the antics they deployed, Emery made his frustrations known t

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