Aston Villa supervisor Steven Gerrard changed into essential of both himself and his gamers once they slumped to a 1-zero defeat in opposition to suffering Watford.
The recreation become scoreless at half of-time but Emmanuel Dennis headed home with 12 mins left at the clock. The victory gave new Hornets leader Roy Hodgson his first win as Watford manager and sees them in 18th spot inside the desk. They are nevertheless 4 factors adrift of Newcastle in seventeenth after the Magpies drew 1-1 at West Ham.
Villa loved a ‘jump’ after Gerrard replaced Dean Smith at the helm. They won four video games from six pinnacle-flight outings. But things have tailed off due to the fact then.
The West Midlanders have taken simplest five factors from their beyond seven suits. And a 1-zero loss to Watford accompanied a similar scoreline against Newcastle United.
And Gerrard pointed the finger of blame squarely at himself for the today's reverse.
“The end result is the equal, that’s the fact. We carried the frustration on from last week,” he advised BBC Sport. “That’s on me, we’ve best taken one point from our closing three games.
“It’s a terrible aggregate in soccer while you concede goals and don’t score many. I want to take that on my shoulders and the gamers want to as well. We want to paste collectively.”
And the former Rangers chief felt his costs have been no longer suitable sufficient within the commercial enterprise a part of the pitch.
“I’m now not going to grasp at straws, the fact is we in no way had sufficient fine inside the final third,” he added. “We didn’t innovative enough. Ben Foster didn’t have sufficient to do, especially at domestic.”
