Villa Park saw an attendance last night of 26,872 and for the ones that turned up a listless and uninspired (for uninspired read: no idea how to attack, create space and pass) display from the hometeam last night.

It can be summed up when you look at some of the stats. Three shots on target and only 7 attempts.

You don't have to be Albert Einstein to work this one out. The team that like to play attacking high tempo football managed to create a shooting opportunity once every twelve minutes and only every 30 minutes did that create a chance where they got it on target - possibly the reason why attendance has been so low this season?

Now, I'm not a football manager or football pundit but when you're playing a team treading water in a league lower than you surely you have to create more chances that that?

David O'Leary has his own team now and has been the manager for two previous seasons. What excuses are we going to hear from the London born Irishman this week?