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Going into the game, only league leaders Arsenal had won more points than Villa since the World Cup break, and Emery will be left scratching his head at how this one got away.

Individual errors were costly as Kamara was stripped of the ball inside his own penalty area for Maddison's equaliser after collecting a pass from his goalkeeper under pressure, before he also lost the ball cheaply in the build-up to Tete's strike.

Villa still managed 19 shots on goal in a busy attacking display, and had Watkins converted an open goal, and had Buendia's header looped in instead of hitting the crossbar in the first half, the result could easily have been different.

But Praet capitalised on another error at the back to finally kill off Villa late on.

"We had mistakes today," Emery said. "Leicester were at the bottom of the table but they have very good players and we gave them chances.

"We had good moments, created chances, but our mistakes were really big mistakes. At 1-0 we were [doing] well but we lost our confidence a bit when they scored."

With just two defeats under the former Arsenal manager, Villa are 11th and could have a European place in sight if they have a strong run-in.

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