Same old Villa

Aston Villa’s last result was a 1-0 win over Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea, so Paul Lambert’s men surely felt they were capable of taking the three points when Christian Benteke scored in the 5th minute.

But Stoke upped the pressure resulting in both a Peter Odemwingie goal to bring the tie level and then one from Peter Crouch less than four minutes later.

At the full-time whistle Mark Hughes’ men had won a convincing 4-1, leap frogging Villa to finish the weekend 10th.