Villa make it eight Premier League games without a win under Paul Lambert to leave them with four wins in twenty five League games as they concede late once again to draw with Everton.

Villa now have 4 wins in 25 games under Paul Lambert.

Villa concede 3 of more goals for the 8th time in 25 games under Paul Lambert.  

Villa conceded 3 of more goals on 4 occasions across the entire 38 game Premier League season under Alex McLeish in 2011-12.

Christian Benteke continues his remarkable start to his Villa career as he contributes his 21st goal involvement on his 25th start in a Villa shirt (27 Appearances) to make it W8 D8 L11, 14 Goals, 7 Assists and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Midfielder Yacouba Sylla makes his Villa debut aged 22 after joining from Clermont Foot in January 2013 for a fee of £2,160,000 to become the 854th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Brad Guzan concedes his 80th goal in a Villa shirt on his 54th appearance (52 Starts) to make it W20 D13 L21, 80 Goals Conceded, 14 Clean Sheets, 1.74 Goals per League Game and 4 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Charles N'Zogbia contributes his 10th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 51st appearance (36 Starts) to make it W14 D19 L18, 2 Goals, 9 Assists and 8 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Villa win for the first time since December and the fifth time in 26 Premier League games under Paul Lambert.

Forward Simon Dawkins makes his Villa debut aged 25 after joining on loan from Tottenham Hotspur until the end of the season to become the 855th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Ciaran Clark collects his 20th booking in a Villa shirt on his 75th appearance (69 Starts) to make it W24 D21 L30, 7 Goals, 3 Assists and 20 Bookings so far in his Villa career. Clark has now picked up a booking every 3.75 games he has played.

Matt Lowton secures his 10th win in a Villa shirt on his 33rd appearance to make it W10 D9 L14, 1 Goal and 7 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Villa win for the second time in 2013 and for the sixth Premier League game in twenty nine under Paul Lambert as they overcome second from bottom side Reading.

Christian Benteke secures his 10th win in a Villa shirt on his 31st appearances (29 Starts) to make it W10 D8 L13, 16 Goals, 7 Assists and 6 Bookings.

Nathan Baker secures his 10th win in a Villa shirt on his 34th appearance (31 Starts) to make it W10 D7 L17, 3 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

Ciaran Clark secures his 25th win in a Villa shirt on his 78th appearance (72 Starts) to make it W25 D21 L32, 7 Goals, 3 Assists and 20 Bookings so far in his Villa career. Clark has now picked up a booking every 3.90 games he has played.

Andreas Weimann contributes his 1st assist in a Villa shirt on his 46th appearance (27 Starts) to make it W17 D14 L15, 12 Goals, 1 Assist and 4 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Ashley Westwood collects his 1st booking in a Villa shirt on his 22nd appearance (20 Starts) to make it W6 D6 L10, 3 Assists and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.

Villa secure successive wins for the first time under Paul Lambert as Christian Benteke's goals once again prove crucial in keeping Villa afloat above the relegation places.

Andreas Weimann contributes his 15th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 47th appearance (28 Starts) to make it W18 D14 L15, 13 Goals, 2 Assists and 5 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Matt Lowton contributes his 1st assist in a Villa shirt on his 37th appearance to make it W12 D9 L16, 1 Goal, 1 Assist and 9 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Villa slump back into the relegation places as their two game winning run against fellow strugglers is ended with a visit from Liverpool to leave Paul Lambert with seven games to add to Villa's seven wins in thirty one Premier League games under his leadership.

Villa lose their 15th Premier League match of the season under Paul Lambert.

Villa's run of two consecutive victories against relegation rivals comes to an end with defeat to seventh placed Liverpool and they fall back to 18th in the table on goal difference with 7 games left to play.

Ron Vlaar loses for the 10th time in a Villa shirt on his 24th appearance to make it W8 D6 L10 and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Barry Bannan makes his 84th and final appearance in a Villa shirt (50 Starts) before moving on to Crystal Palace for £1,890,000 in September 2013. Another player to have left too prematurely Bannan left with a record of W24 D23 L36, 2 Goals, 5 Assists and 9 Bookings.

Villa secure their fourth win in seven to double their tally of wins from the previous twenty five Premier League games under Paul Lambert.

Darren Bent makes his 1st appearance in 2 months in a Villa shirt on his 60th appearance (50 Starts) and had now been substitute in 9 of his last 14 games, starting just twice in the League, having only been a sub once in his first 46. Bent's record now stood at W23 D16 L21, 24 Goals, 3 Assists and 1 Booking having scored 5 times in 20 games under Lambert - with 3 of those goals coming against lower league cup opposition - compared to 19 in 40 under his predecessors (1 Cup Goal against Premier League opposition).

Ashley Westwood makes his 25th appearance in a Villa shirt (23 Starts) to make it W8 D6 L11, 3 Assists and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Ron Vlaar makes his 25th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W9 D6 L10 and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Brad Guzan concedes his 90th goal in a Villa shirt on his 61st appearance (59 Starts) to make it W24 D13 L24, 90 Goals Conceded, 14 Clean Sheets, 1.68 Goals per League Game and 4 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Centre forward Jordan Bowery makes his 10th appearance in a Villa shirt (3 Starts) to make it W4 D1 L5, 0 Goal, 0 Assists and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.

Yacouba Sylla contributes his 1st assist in a Villa shirt on his 6th appearance (3 Starts) to make it W4 D1 L1, 1 Assist and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Villa can't manage to extend their strongest run of the season under Paul Lambert to four wins in five games against clubs around them in the relegation zone as they are held to a home draw by Fulham to leave them still deep in trouble.

Andreas Weimann makes his 50th appearance in a Villa shirt (31 Starts) to make it W19 D15 L16, 13 Goals, 2 Assists and 5 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Joe Bennett makes his 25th appearance in a Villa shirt (21 Starts) to make it W7 D6 L12, 2 Assists, 4 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

Brett Holman makes his 1st appearance for over a month, and has now made just one start in a Villa shirt in 2013 having done so 16 times in the first 4 months of the season as the winger continues to be the latest player to fall out of favour with Paul Lambert. Holman's 2012 record was 22 Appearances, 16 Starts, W6 D6 L10, 2 Goals, 4 Assists and 1 Booking. Holman's 2013 record by contrast was now 6 Appearances, 1 Start, W6 D10 L12, 0 Goals, 0 Assists and 0 Bookings.

Charles N'Zogbia contributes his 15th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 59th appearance (40 Starts) to make it W18 D20 L21, 5 Goals, 10 Assists and 8 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Villa record their biggest win under Paul Lambert and deliver one of the most important wins in their recent history as they score more than three goals in a game for the first time under Paul Lambert. 

The win built crucial breathing space above the relegation zone with three to play, but Villa should never have been allowed to be there in the first place but for boardroom stasis refusing to act on Lambert's awful tenure.

If Villa's victory at Stoke was their biggest in decades, the game against Sunderland was the biggest pressure release valve in B6 seen for many a year. Villa's win lifted them to 16th in the table five points clear of the relegation places with three games left to play. As a result the final relegation place was between Wigan, Newcastle, Sunderland and Villa.

Christian Benteke scores his 1st hat-trick in a Villa shirt on his 37th appearance (35 Starts) to make it W13 D9 L15, 22 Goals, 8 Assists and 6 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Christian Benteke became Villa's highest scorer in a single Premier League season with 18 goals. 

Ron Vlaar scores his 1st goal and secures his 10th win in a Villa shirt on his 28th appearance to make it W10 D7 L11, 1 Goal and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Andreas Weimann secures his 20th win in a Villa shirt on his 52nd appearance (33 Starts) to make it W20 D15 L17, 14 Goals, 2 Assists and 5 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Villa's crucial run of games against fellow strugglers - playing six of their last eight against such opposition - proves critical as Paul Lambert's side make it five wins across the period to all but guarantee Premier League safety with two games to play.

Paul Lambert's Villa record their second successive win for only the second time this season. 

Villa's tenth win of the season, with five having come in the last eight matches, almost guaranteed Premier League football at Villa Park for 2013-14 just weeks after that prospect looked a complete impossibility. 

Although Christian Benteke's goals had got Villa into a position to have a realistic chance of safety, it was the much maligned Gabriel Agbonlahor who had been equally crucial in recent matches and fittingly it was his brace that effectively saved Villa. 

Ashley Westwood contributes his 6th assist in a Villa shirt on his 29 appearances (27 Starts) to make it W10 D7 L12, 6 Assists and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Winger Brett Holman has to wait another month for an appearance - his last of 29 - for Villa aged 29 before moving on to Al-Nasr on a free transfer in July 2013. Holman had started the campaign with promise but disappeared from the starting line up at the turn of the year and was rarely seen thereafter. Holman had now made just 5 substitute appearances in the last four months under Lambert and had made just one start in a Villa shirt in 2013 having done so 16 times in the first 4 months of the season. Holman's 2012 record was 22 Appearances, 16 Starts, W6 D6 L10, 2 Goals, 4 Assists and 1 Booking. Holman's 2013 record by contrast was 7 Appearances, 1 Start, W7 D10 L12, 0 Goals, 0 Assists and 0 Bookings. Like many things under Paul Lambert it was unfathomable.

Fabian Delph collects his 20th booking in a Villa shirt on his 64th appearance (48 Starts) at a rate of a card every 3.20 games he has played and makes it W24 D17 L23, 2 Goals and 20 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Joe Bennett collects his 5th booking in a Villa shirt on his 28th appearance (24 Starts) to make it W9 D6 L13, 2 Assists, 5 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

Meanwhile in bittersweet news, Stiliyan Petrov announces his retirement following his recovery from acute leukaemia.

Villa lose their 16th game of the Premier League season under Paul Lambert.

Thanks to results elsewhere, Villa remain a Premier League side for another season, something that had seemed an impossibility two months earlier when they sat 18th with fourteen defeats in 28 games. 

Defender Eric Lichaj makes his 42nd and final appearance for Villa (30 Starts) aged 24 before moving on to Nottingham Forest on a free transfer in July 2013. Lichaj would leave with a record of W15 D13 L14, 1 Goals, 4 Assists and 10 Bookings.

Nathan Baker suffers his 20th defeat in a Villa shirt on his 42nd appearance (39 Starts) to make it W14 D8 L20, 4 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

Joe Bennett makes his 25th start in a Villa shirt (29 Appearances) to make it W9 D6 L14, 2 Assists, 5 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

Christian Benteke is sent of on his 39th appearance in a Villa shirt (37 Starts) to make it W14 D9 L16, 23 Goals, 8 Assists, 9 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

Villa end the season safe from relegation as ‘Petrov day’ celebrates the career and retirement of Villa great Stiliyan Petrov.

Villa end this most difficult of campaigns with a draw at relegated Wigan to leave them with a stack of unwanted records and with a host of players either exiled or underperforming by this most bewildering of regimes. 

It would be difficult to imagine that a season without relegation could have been much worse. 

Off the pitch there was chaos and recrimination with the infamous Bomb Squad of first team players not to be considered for duty robbing Villa of crucial experience, whilst players and systems were constantly changed leaving an incoherent manager presiding over an incoherent style of play. 

Record defeats, lower league humiliation, sub par players and performances, the banishment of effective first teamers and a malevolent discontent meant that in normal circumstances Paul Lambert would have been another one term manager consigned to the dustbin of failure. 

These weren’t normal times however as a distracted and disconnected Chairman seemed to accept and encourage this most bewildering of management regimes. 

In truth Villa’s form throughout the season meant they should have been relegated. Villa though avoid relegation under Paul Lambert at the last thanks to the goals of Christian Benteke and latterly Gabriel Agbonlahor without which a first relegation since 1986 was inevitable. 

Perhaps that end to the season bred over confidence, if true it’s difficult to understand the chutzpah of forgetting the other 40 odd games of mostly ineptitude. 

Whatever it was, this most undeserving of managers got an apparently emboldened endorsement for a second season. 

Consider the statistics: 

Paul Lambert has now led Villa to 16 defeats in 38 games in the 2012-13 season. 

Much maligned Alex McLeish delivered 14 defeats across the entire 2011-12 season. 

Lambert had hit that total in just 28 games. 

Villa have conceded 3 or more goals on 9 occasions across 38 Premier League under Paul Lambert.

McLeish had suffered four such games over the 38 game 2011-23 season. 

In his first season as manager of the club, Paul Lambert delivered the biggest defeat in Villa’s history, 0-8 to Chelsea.

In his first season as manager of the club, Paul Lambert set the record for the most goals conceded in successive games in Premier League history. 

Villa secured 5 wins in 25 League games under Paul Lambert. The five wins in the final ten games that effectively saved Villa came against Reading (19th, relegated), Queens Park Rangers (20th, relegated), Stoke City (13th, one point above Villa), Sunderland (17th) and Norwich. 

McLeish had delivered that many by New Years Eve 2011. 

Villa were never out of the bottom five under Paul Lambert in 2012-13, spending most of the season in 17th and 18th until the six-pointers against relegation rivals at the end of the season lifted them to a barely believable 15th placed finish.

McLeish’s Villa never dropped lower than 15th until the final two games of the season when they fell to 16th after finishing without a win in ten. 

Yet Lambert was not only still feted by a section of the support to the same degree as McLeish was hated, he was confirmed as manager of the club for 2013-14 even before the final placings had been realised. 

Darren Bent scores his 25th goal in a Villa shirt on his 63rd appearance (51 Starts) and had now been substitute in 11 of his last 17 games, starting just three League games, having only been a sub once in his first 46. Bent's record now stood at W24 D18 L21, 25 Goals, 3 Assists and 2 Bookings having scored 6 times in 23 games under Lambert - with 3 of those goals coming against lower league cup opposition - compared to 19 in 40 under his predecessors (1 Cup Goal against Premier League opposition). This would prove to be Bent’s last game in a Villa shirt for 43 games as Lambert would exclude the player from selection for the entirety of the 2013-14 season for no apparent reason.

Forward Simon Dawkins makes his 4th and final appearance for Villa (0 Starts) aged 25 before returning to Tottenham Hotspur at the end of his loan spell. Dawkins, never looking a Premier League player during his 5 months with Villa, left with a record of W1 D1 L1, 0 Goal, 0 Assists and 0 Bookings from his 71 minutes on the field for Villa.

Brad Guzan concedes his 100th goal in a Villa shirt on his 67th appearance (65 Starts) to make it W26 D15 L26, 100 Goals Conceded, 14 Clean Sheets, 1.68 Goals per League Game and 4 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Fabian Delph makes his 50th start in a Villa shirt (66 Appearances) to make it W24 D18 L24, 2 Goals and 20 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Villa see off newly promoted League One side Rotherham in the 2nd round of the League Cup.

Following the giant killings suffered at the hands of League Two Doncaster and Championship side Millwall in 2012-13, Paul Lambert's Villa make short work of League One Rotherham in more signs that the season could prove far better than the last.

Jed Steer makes his debut in a Villa shirt after his move from Norwich in July to become the 861st player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Joe Bennett secures his 10th win in a Villa shirt on his 31st appearance (27 Starts) to make it W10 D7 L14, 3 Assists, 5 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

Villa record their first Premier League win since the opening day of the season after three consecutive losses under Paul Lambert.

Villa keep their first clean sheet in 26 Premier League matches under Paul Lambert.

Libor Kozák scores his first goal in a Villa shirt on his 2nd appearance (0 Starts) to make it W1 D0 L1 and 1 Goal so far in his Villa career.

Ciaran Clark makes his 75th start in a Villa shirt on his 84th appearance to make it W28 D21 L35, 7 Goals, 3 Assists and 20 Bookings. Clark has now picked up a booking every 4.20 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

Brad Guzan keeps his first clean sheet in a Villa shirt since December 2012 - 27 appearances previously - to make it W28 D15 L29, 106 Goals Conceded, 15 Clean Sheets, 1.63 Goals per League Game and 5 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Villa suffer a chastening and worrying defeat as they are hammered at home by Spurs in the League Cup to leave them with four defeats in seven games in all competitions under Paul Lambert.

Yet it was the decision making of the notorious referee Jonathan Moss that grabbed the headlines. 

That aside there was much to concern about Villa's second half capitulation of Lambert's much changed side.

Joe Bennett suffers his 15th defeat in a Villa shirt on his 32nd appearance (28 Starts) to make it W10 D7 L15, 3 Assists, 5 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

Callum Robinson makes his Villa debut after coming through the youth team to become the 863rd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Villa bounce back from their Tottenham hammering to secure a win as thrilling as it was unexpected to give rise to an iconic image of celebrating in front of the Holte.

Paul Lambert’s Villa arguably deliver their third great result in 54 games under his stewardship with this backs to the wall victory against an expensively assembled outfit. 

The win showed a hitherto absent steel in Lambert's side, doubly so given the team was troubled with injuries to key players. 

As a result the game proved a source of hope that it could kickstart form for Villa in a way their previous victories (over Liverpool in December 2012 and Arsenal on the opening day of this season) had not. 

Villa climb to 9th in the Premier League table after six games as they had now won three and lost three of their opening matches.

Leandro Bacuna scores his first goal in a Villa shirt on his 6th appearance (5 Starts) to make it W4 D0 L2 and 1 Goal so far in his Villa career.

Brad Guzan contributes his 1st assist in a Villa shirt on his 73rd appearance (71 Starts) to make it W29 D15 L29, 1 Assist, 108 Goals Conceded, 15 Clean Sheets, 1.64 Goals per League Game and 5 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Ron Vlaar secures his 15th win in a Villa shirt on his 39th appearance to make it W15 D8 L16, 2 Goals and 3 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Andreas Weimann secures his 25th win in a Villa shirt on his 62nd appearance (43 Starts) to make it W25 D16 L21, 16 Goals, 3 Assists and 5 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Villa lose at home to Tottenham for the second time in four games as they are beaten for the first time in four to leave them with three wins in eight under Paul Lambert.

Fabian Delph makes his 75th appearance in a Villa shirt (59 Starts) to make it W28 D19 L28, 3 Goals and 24 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Brad Guzan concedes his 110th goal in a Villa shirt on his 75th appearance (73 Starts) to make it W29 D16 L30, 1 Assist, 110 Goals Conceded, 16 Clean Sheets, 1.62 Goals per League Game and 5 Bookings so far in his Villa career.