BOSS Unai Emery has outlined the honour of winning the FA Cup as Aston Villa continue their quest to end a 28-year trophy drought.

Villa go to Middlesbrough in the third round on Saturday without major silverware since lifting the 1996 League Cup.

They reached the 2015 FA Cup final – losing 4-0 to Arsenal – and Emery, who has won the Europa League four times, knows the importance of trophies.

“This is the first picture I want to show the players: prestige, fighting for a trophy and playing in the Europa League if you are successful at the end. That is another motivation,” he said.

“I will face them tomorrow morning in the meeting, sending them this message.

“I won some titles in different cups in France with PSG and I was asking for some players’ experiences in different cup competitions when they’ve been successful.

“We are here trying to build a new way with Aston Villa and the players we have here. We are going to try to do one way in this competition because it’s a very prestigious competition here in England.

“We have to be focused to build and create a strong structure with the players we have, thinking in our mentality about doing something important.

“We want to be contenders to play in the next round. We are respecting Middlesbrough; they are going to be excited to play against us.”

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Boubacar Kamara is available after suspension but Bertrand Traore is at the African Nations Cup with Burkina Faso, while Youri Tielemans, Lucas Digne, Emi Buendia and Tyrone Mings are all out.

Emery added: “We need to keep being consistent and be demanding in our work every day.

“We have to remember everything tactically about how we want to defend, how we want to build our structure with and without ball possession and how we can keep being consistent in our mentality.

“We will try to be competitive in each match, adapt to the opponent and be respectful of them. I think football is very, very, very difficult.”