Aston Villa captain John McGinn admits manager Unai Emery has an "obsessive" winning mentality.
McGinn was speaking after Sunday's win at Tottenham.
"It's impossible to put it to one point," said McGinn of Emery's approach. The mentality, the desire to win, just everything about him has been absolutely brilliant.
He was obsessed about winning on Sunday, absolutely obsessed. That mindset and mentality is put into our heads.
When we go behind, before maybe we would have crumbled, but to be fair on Sunday we had our chests out, played strong and I was just really, really proud of the second half.
If you wanted me to sum it up quickly, I would say it's impossible."
Asked for more detail on Emery's obsession", McGinn replied: It's maybe not on Sunday, it was Saturday and the day before.
He shows it in the meeting room. If anyone is trying to get hold of us and I'm not answering, I'm in the meeting room.
He does a lot of hard work, it's just drilled into him, he wants to win, he's won throughout his career and there's no reason why he can't do that here.
He's drilling that into us in the meeting room. There's a lot of details, a lot of thinking, a lot of concentration required from us. He's making people concentrate that I didn't think were capable! I'm not naming any names!
It's unchartered territory for us, really exciting, but we can't get carried away."