Unai Emery arrived at Villarreal to try to improve the club's records, with a clear ambition to go one step further. From the first moment the enthusiasm of the fans was high, since Emery arrived with a trajectory that invited optimism.
But the reality is that the coach has been able to ratify those hopes, achieving the best start that is reminded of any of the coaches who has led the club in his first campaign. Emery certified the move to the group stage as the first after winning in Turkey this Thursday, achieving it with one day to go and as first.
That classification already makes him equal and even improve, the best qualifying record that Javier Calleja achieved in his first year, which It is the best European record of all the technicians in its premiere. Although Emery signs a better group stage in these first five days, with four wins and one draw, for the two wins and two draws of the 16-17 campaign.
To this, it is added that After the twelve league rounds, the start of Emery's team improves any other qualifying start of the rest of the coaches in their debut in First, since it improves the fourth place of Marcelino and Escribá at this point in the campaigns 13-14 and 16-17 with the current third place.
Regarding the matches played, Emery has eight wins, six draws and a single loss. Surpassing Marcelino's first start, who in the 13-14 season signed in his first sixteen games a record of eight wins, four draws and four losses, or, the records of Pellegrini, who added nine wins, four draws and three losses.
Emery is the coach who has achieved a better league championship qualifying start, the best European group stage start, to which he adds that after those sixteen games the team has only been defeated in only one of them.