European ambitions raise the stakes and adds more spice to the derby day dish

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You have to go back an awfully long way to the last time both Villa and Wolves reached this point in a season with Europe in their sights.

The most recent was 1998, when a Villa team revitalised under John Gregory were climbing up the Premier League and Wolves, though still in the second tier, were heading toward an FA Cup semi-final with Arsenal.

Wolves will want to show the jolting FA Cup exit to Coventry has left no festering scars, while Villa are aiming to avoid going three league matches without a win for the first time. Such progress has brought new pressures of which Emery’s team have largely handled well. Yet with the season now in the final stretch, they feel very much the hunted, the gaps to Tottenham and Manchester United beneath them much more of a focus than the now surely unbridgeable deficit to the three title challengers above.

 

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