Villa make it three wins in four days as they reach 26 wins in just 38 games (breaking the club record which has stood for 98 years) as Andy Lochhead scores his 23rd League goals of the season to open a six point lead over second placed Bournemouth. Villa though face an increasingly tough schedule of six games in the next seventeen days, five of which are away from home.

Vic Crowe's Villa make it three successive victories again to record twenty six wins, five draws and seven defeats in 38 division three games so far this campaign. As a result, Villa (played 38, points 57) opened up a six point lead over second placed Bournemouth (played 38, points 51) and a seven point gap to third place Brighton and Hove Albion (played 37, points 50).