personally i think villa have been found out just recently and are really struggling to adapt to teams who have worked out how to play against them!
Somebody put on here about how pitiful Heskey and Agbonlahor were for england and they are completely right. Heskey is just Heskey half decent but put him against a top quality centre half and he is worse than useless, agbonlahor looks completely lost without the ability to run in behind players and as teams are learning to defend deeper against villa they have lost their main attacking threat and have yet to come up with a plan b will be interesting to see if O'Neill is the manager everyone thinks he is and he can come up with one