Aston Villa kicked off the new year and decade with a 2-1 win against Burnley at Turf Moor yesterday, with goals from Wesley and Jack Grealish handing Dean Smith’s side important three points.

The victory was the Villans’ sixth league win of the campaign, and it was enough to take them out of the drop zone.

Villa now have 21 points in as many games, with only a point and a place between them and 18th-placed Bournemouth, and they have to improve significantly in the second-half of the campaign if they are to retain their top-flight status at the end of the season.

Wesley scored his first league goal since October, while Grealish grabbed his sixth of the campaign, and both players have to be on top of their games to rescue their side from relegating.

The midfielder thought he had put Villa ahead after nodding in Ezri Konsa’s cross 12 minutes into the game, but Wesley was deemed inches offside in the build-up.

The finest margins!

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