Aston Villa claimed a crucial victory at Brentford on Sunday, propelling them to second place in the Premier League.
The 2-1 result was not easy to come by however, as the hosts scored at the stroke of half-time to force the Villans to mount a second-half comeback.
Additionally, the match was marred with physical play, with each side having a player sent off.
Brentford's strategy against Unai Emery's surging side included plenty of tight, combative play, with the Bees tallying 19 fouls during the match.
Afterwards, Emery lamented his team's inability to play through the physicality as he urged his players to practice more self-control going forward.
"At the end some moments, some behaviour, of us as well, I'm going to manage our behaviour and take control of it," Emery said while speaking to Match of the Day. "I will analyse it with our players because it was not normal.
"We were a bit excited and we needed control of ourselves. When you are reacting like that, other players and the other opponent is maybe not being in good behaviour like the match needed.
"I'm going to manage everything we did that was not good and our mistakes in our behaviour.
"Maybe it's not the best for football and for us but always we have very good behaviour with the referees, always respect their decisions, VAR and I will keep doing the same.
"The players are reacting to circumstances from the opponent or from supporters and we are human but we have to build the team and in difficult moments we can control our mind and be under control."