Unai Emery hinted that Marcus Rashford and Marco Asensio will soon penetrate the start XI of Aston Villa while preparing for Liverpool on Wednesday.
Villas on-Loan-Paar has produced impressive cameies in their two replacement trips and Emery expects them to be ready to play from the coming weeks.
Asensio staggered in the FA Cup victory at Tottenham, while Rashford reached the bar and almost created a winner for Morgan Rogers in the 1-1 draw with Ipswich.
Emery said: 'They are in their individual process to get fit and to understand our idea tactically. Tactically we change a bit with those players and we have to try to practice a bit in the training session to try it in competitions.
'We did that in two games with Asensio and Marcus and with (on Chelsea Defender Loan) Axel Disasi in the last game.
'We worked here every day to try them to understand our idea and we also have some meetings. Now they get better, they understand more and get closer to playing in the start XI. '
At their best, Emery believes that the couple can inspire their teammates in the same way as Mohamed Salah brings the best of his Liverpool colleagues.
Salah has 23 goals and 14 assists alone in the Premier League and Emery knows that Villa has a huge task to stop the Egyptian.
The villa boss added: 'Salah is unique, he feels confident and comfortable and plays decent football at his best moment. Marcus did it (in the past) and Marco Asensio did it too. My challenge with them is to get the best of them. Everyone has their qualities. '
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