Heskey says Aston Villa won’t get carried away

Despite Aston Villa’s recent great form striker Emile Heskey is adamant the side will not get carried away with dreams of the Champions league.

The England forward scored the first in a 2-0 victory over Sunderland  on Tuesday  to send his side back into into the third place they occupied briefly after Saturday’s famous victory at Manchester United. The goal put Heskey on three goals in five games.

But manager Martin O’Neill was quick to play down their chances of remaining in the top four, and there is little danger of any complacency among his players.

Heskey said:

“We have put ourselves in a great position and just have to keep there.

“We are not getting carried away, we just want to carry on and keep getting the points.

“We will see how we go over the Christmas period. This is the busiest period and we have a lot of games. We will see how we come through and where we go from there.

“It is interesting because people will probably feel that we might die off a little bit. But we can hopefully stay up there.”

Sunderlnd vs Aston Villa

The Big Four seem to have been torn apart this season with the likes of Tottenham Hotspur also looking to claim a place in those elusive Champions league places.

Each side have players in impressive form Spurs’ Jermain Defoe looks to be in the form of his career bagging 16 goals in 21 appearences. Whereas Villa have the ever improving James Milner who continues to impress. botheplayers could find themselves on the plane to South Africa.

Heskey and Milner will both hope their efforts at club level will book their seats on the plane which flies Fabio Capello’s England squad out to South Africa for next summer’s World Cup finals.

But Heskey, who comfortably overshadowed Sunderland’s Darren Bent last night, is again taking nothing for granted.

Heskey said:

“I just want to play games. I am just concentrating on playing for Aston Villa and anything that comes with that is a bonus.”

Heskey will look to continue his goal scoring record in the weekend’s fixture at home to Stoke City and three points could see them go even closer to that champions league dream.

Villa are currently 9/4 odds to finish in the top four this season and if current form continues they may just make it.