Aston Villa’s survival chances took a huge blow on Saturday afternoon after Watford ran our 3-0 winners at Vicarage Road.
Despite facing 10 men, Villa went down 3-0 thanks to two Troy Deeney goals and a Ismalia Sarr finish.
Adrian Mariappa was sent off for the Hornets, but Villa were simply unable to get past Watford throughout the game.
Several Villa fans took to Twitter to voice their frustrations with the performance.
Twitter: Turgid. https://t.co/xHlujlqDUg (@mattlyynch)
Twitter: Villa fans, cherish every moment left in this season of watching Jack in our colours. He will not be wearing them next season. #avfc (@Mr_WillCarroll)
Twitter: People that said we were doing a Fulham were wrong.
We’re doing an Aston Villa 2016.
#avfc (@VillaViews_)
Twitter: We genuinely look like we’ve never met each other before and at the end of December that is massive concern.
#avfc #utv (@danbardell)
Twitter: Spineless, pathetic performance today #AVFC Not much more to say, some of the lack of effort & ease we gave the bal… https://t.co/8grFQMM1VN (@jeryapp87)
Read Aston Villa’s verdict
Despite the big win against Norwich on Boxing Day, it was very much back to reality for Villa this afternoon.
It doesn’t look good if they can’t trouble Watford, a team also in the bottom three.
Questions have got to be asked across the board as to where Villa go from here.
