Sean Dyche 'absolutely stunned' by Unai Emery's Aston Villa tactics vs Brentford: 'I can't believe what I'm seeing'

Sean Dyche was left scratching his head in the early stages of Aston Villa's clash with Brentford.

The Villans welcomed Keith Andrews' side to Villa Park knowing that they had a tough test ahead.

Unai Emery had previously faced the Bees boss three times and tasted defeat in each of those.

It looked like the Saturday meeting was set to take a similar path after a worrying start in B6.

The away side caused problems from minute one and so nearly opened the scoring early on.

It didn't take long for Brentford to eventually find the net, leaving Dyche simply baffled.

Why Sean Dyche has criticised Unai Emery at Aston Villa

The Bees had the lead by the 10th minute in the Midlands.

Yehor Yarmoliuk smashed home an effort on the bounce, leaving Zion Suzuki with absolutely no chance.

The Ukrainian was only given a chance after Igor Thiago won possession back from Tyrone Mings.

The Villa defender wasn't strong enough as he was knocked off the ball while looking to play out from the back.

That is something that Emery wants his side to do, but Dyche can't believe that the Spaniard is demanding that from his side against the Bees.

Speaking via talkSPORT on Saturday, the ex-Everton boss said: "I am absolutely stunned. I'm a big fan of Unai Emery and what he's done here but, I can't believe what I'm seeing.

"Brentford are known as a high-press side. They've got into a good place, play good statistical football, get it in the box, it drops and he lashes it in."

Dyche isn't wrong, but even after the goal, it isn't something that the hosts have changed.

How Aston Villa cost themselves dearly vs Brentford

Emery is always going to play in the way that he wants to.

That is by playing out from the back and looking to play through teams.

The problem is when you are asking someone like Tyrone Mings to do that against such a high-intensity team.

The 33-year-old committed the error that led to the opening goal, but his quality on the ball was also an issue.

He misplaced 11 passes on the day, while also completing just one of his six attempted long balls.

That just isn't good enough and is made worse by the fact that Victor Lindelof only had a 33 per cent success rate in the same realm.

Dyche is totally right to feel baffled by what he's seen, but it isn't going to change any time soon.