Are Aston Villa title contenders with just two points off Man City and Arsenal?

Aston Villa boss Unai Emery played down his side's Champions League credentials despite thrashing West Ham, but a top-five finish should not be the ceiling at Villa Park.

Villa are just two points off Premier League pacesetters Manchester City and Arsenal following Sunday's 4-1 win.

Douglas Luiz's double and clinical finishes from Ollie Watkins and Leon Bailey ended Villa's Hammers hoodoo, for their first victory over West Ham since 2015.

They returned to fifth spot, just a point adrift of the top four, with games against Luton, Nottingham Forest and Fulham coming up next.

"There are seven teams contending. We are after seven teams; Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal, Chelsea and Newcastle," said Emery, with fifth potentially offering a Champions League place this term.

"Dream, always. My dream is to win the Champions League but now we are fifth and we are going to face each match trying to get a good performance.

"It's 38 matches and we lost at Newcastle, we lost at Liverpool. They are matches we are not going to play again.

"I prefer to speak about the matches we won but I have to speak about the matches we lost. This is the balance. We have to be very demanding.

"In the table West Ham were two points behind us and the level we have now, they have as well. It was very important.

"The process is going in the right way, it's going to be difficult. In the end we won 4-1."

Sky Sports' Ben Grounds:

There are more than a few shades of the 2015/16 season about Aston Villa's start. Back then, against all the odds, Claudio Ranieri's Leicester City won the Premier League title during a campaign in which several of the big clubs were experiencing a period of transition.

By Jurgen Klopp's own admission, this