There can be no complaints, Aston Villa deserved to lose to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.
This is now becoming really worrying for Unai Emery because Villa haven’t won in eight matches in all competitions and they can’t keep a clean sheet in the Premier League to save their life.
That’s 13 matches, 22 conceded and only six other are worse off. The majority of them are sitting below 12th-placed Aston Villa.
From the leaky defence to the goal-shy attack, everywhere you look, the spark and quality is starting to drain out.
It should be a worry for Emery because, aside from the Champions League, there isn’t much to shout about and now ruthless calls need to be made.
The games are coming thick and fast for Villa now, starting with two home games next week – Thomas Frank’s free-scoring Brentford and newly-promoted Southampton.
Emery needs to make big changes and he needs to start with one man, in particular.
Ollie Watkins needs dropping after Aston Villa’s loss to Chelsea
When Ollie Watkins lacks that bite in front of goal, it really shows because he is very timid and weak in his play.
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I was in the unfortunate position to watch that against Chelsea, especially when he missed two guilt-edge chances in the first half, including one where he was practically one-v-one and had options to pass to the side of him.
This isn’t the case of Watkins is the issue here, but time to axe him from the XI for Brentford, bring in Jhon Duran, who scored in his last start and send out a message to the rest of the team.
There are certain players who are far too comfortable in the XI and Emery now needs to get the boot out, or else, the team will just continue to slide and slide.
Aston Villa's English striker #11 Ollie Watkins vies for the ball with Chelsea's Belgian midfielder #45 Romeo Lavia during the English Premier Leag...
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Watkins stats against Chelsea
Shots Key Passes Passes PA% Touches Dribbles Dispossessed Rating
2 1 9 88.9 20 1 1 6.21
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