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Four of those five defeats have come through the course of the sides’ last five meetings and I can not see Garde’s side getting any kind of result from this match.

Ashley Westwood summed up Villa’s habit of shooting themselves in the foot when he conceded a needless penalty with a crude barge into Phil Bardsley and Arnautovic stepped up to send Bunn the wrong way from the spot.

Marko Arnautovic’s second half double put Stoke firmly in control after their failure to break through in the first 45 minutes, but while Mark Hughes may have wanted to see more from his team in the opening half, Villa did little to trouble the home defence for the most part.

And the winger scored from close range soon after as Villa again showed their fragility against a backdrop of audible anger from the travelling faithful. It was more a question of quality, rather than putting in more effort.

“As a football player and the situation we are in, if you respect everybody and respect the club normally you should be committed by yourself if you are a normal person you should be committed as well”.

“The way the team performs today gives me reason not to make too many changes”.

Cameron has missed nine games with an ankle problem but is now back in training and could provide an option at the back this weekend at a time when the Potters have a host of defenders unavailable.

Writing in his column for the Daily Star, Merson said: “There’s always one team who end up on the glass mountain with moccasin slippers on, and it could be Swansea”.

“I thought we took time to get going but in the first half I was pleased with what we produced, although we perhaps needed more intensity and a bit more dynamism”, said Hughes.

Villa have scored the highest proportion of second half goals of any team in the Premier League this season (70%).

Austria global Arnautovic marked his 100th game for Stoke with his ninth and 10th goals of the season in the space of five minutes in the second half at the Britannia Stadium.

“At 2-0 we were quite comfortable and cruising to a conclusion”.