Jadon Sancho scored the winner on 25 minutes with a quality header to help Villa to a 1-0 triumph in Istanbul.
“I’m thankful to our 2,000 supporters who were helping us here from Birmingham, Aston Villa supporters,” said Emery afterwards.
“In this stadium, how they are pushing here with the supporters, really huge atmosphere.
“How we were feeling, our supporters supporting us and helping us, it was really fantastic. And then we played the match with discipline.
“We were defensively, getting a huge responsibility to stop them, to avoid getting in our box creating chances and we did.
“We had a lot of transition to score one more, one goal like we did and more.
“And when we could dominate with the ball as well, we were really getting good positions on the field with the players.
“Every player did a really huge effort and playing in the commitment we need, fantastic in our gameplan. We suffered a little bit in the second half for 15 mins, they scored one goal and were refused by VAR.
“But it was circumstantial because overall we created more chances, we had another goal as well refused by VAR and we deserved to win.”