Paul Lambert's New Years' Resolution to make himself even more unpopular gets off to a great start as he throws away a Cup run to leave Villa with eleven defeats in twenty three games including losses to two League One sides one of whom was one only justpromoted from the fourth tier of English football.

Paul Lambert’s Villa lose for the seventh time in ten home games to crash out of the FA Cup to League One Sheffield United. 

Hardly helping Lambert’s cause was his Houllier-esque idiotic comments about the value of the FA Cup that he had to speedily backtrack.

Nicklas Helenius scores his first goal on his 6th and final appearance in a Villa shirt (0 Starts). Having only joined in July 2013 for £1,350,000 from Aalborg, like so many of Paul Lambert's signings, Helenius was completely out of this depth in the Premier League and would be released on a free to Aalborg in July 2015 with a record of W2 D0 L4, 0 Goals, 0 Assists

Ashley Westwood makes his 50th appearance in a Villa shirt (48 Starts) to make it W15 D13 L22, 1 Goal, 7 Assists and 8 Bookings so far in his Villa career.