Aston Villa fell to yet another all too familiar away defeat when they went down 1-0 to Cardiff City at the Cardiff City Stadium. This defeat leaves them seven points behind Sheffield Wednesday in 6th place – the final play-off position.
The first half was as bad a performance from Villa that you could have witnessed, which, considering just how bad we have been over the past few years, goes to show just how poor a performance it really was. The main reason for this abject first half was our CM pairing of Westwood and Gardner. They offered nothing in the center of the park and, as a result, the Cardiff City players found it all too easy to break forward and put pressure on the Villa defence. If it wasn’t for some luck and some last ditch defending, Villa could have gone in 2 or 3 down at the break.
Westwood and Gardner were hauled off at half time and replaced with Agbonlahor and Tshibola, and in the second half Villa had a lot more stability in the midfield. They piled the pressure on the Cardiff defence in the second half, but they could not get that vital goal and left Wales with nothing.
Here are four things we learnt from today’s game:
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