Villa, winless in seven under Paul Lambert, lose for the second successive game as they continue their slide towards relegation.

Villa lose for the 10th time in 22 Premier League matches under Paul Lambert. 

Villa have failed to score in 13 of those 22 games.

Villa have won just two of their last 11 home games under Paul Lambert.

Since the start of 2013-14 Paul Lambert has led Villa to thirty defeats in sixty League matches, winning fifteen.

Villa have won just eight of thirty home fixtures under Paul Lambert

Lambert has now lost 53 of his 111 games in charge.

Yet those appalling figures are enough for an abject leadership to issue a counter-productive vote of confidence in Lambert. Almost a year since the unhelpful statements of Paul Faulkner in defending Lambert, his successor, Tom Fox, issues a similar reality bending missive. Rather than reassure there was a plan in place and there was a shared concern for the predicament Villa were in, the nonchalant commentary reinforced a view of a club sleepwalking to inevitable relegation. 

Winger Carles Gil makes his Villa debut aged 22 after joining from Valencia CF for a fee of £3,780,000 earlier this month to become the 873rd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football so far in his Villa career.

Jores Okore collects his 5th booking in a Villa shirt on his 16th appearance (14 Starts) to make it W4 D5 L7 and 5 Bookings at a rate of nearly 1 booking for every 3 matches played. Okore would later be accused of match fixing at Aalborg Boldspilklub so far in his Villa career.

Andreas Weimann suffers his 50th defeat in a Villa shirt on his 117th appearance (85 Starts) to make it W36 D31 L50, 23 Goals, 9 Assists and 11 Bookings so far in his Villa career.