Steven Gerrard hailed his “ruthless” Aston Villa side after they recorded an emphatic 4-0 victory over Southampton 4-0.
Ollie Watkins bagged an early opener to put the Villans in control before Douglas Luiz added a timely second just before the break.
Rampant Villa then took firm control of the encounter as they bagged twice in three minutes at the start of the second period, Philippe Coutinho and Danny Ings getting the goals their displays deserved.
On an afternoon when Villa could also have registered greater reward, they kept a second successive clean sheet to record back-to-back wins.
And Gerrard reserved plenty of praise for his charges.
“I thought we were really together, compact, difficult to play against,” he said.
“I think when the game demanded that we needed to be physical and work hard, we stuck together, put our bodies on the line; the players gave that and more.
“We thoroughly deserve our clean sheet and, as a manager, that’s always your base.
“We know we’ve got top players and talented players.
“I felt if we would have scored against Watford first then it could have been a similar scenario.
“It’s important you get the first goal.
“And then we built on that from there and really hurt Southampton at the right times; really ruthless and major quality in all our four goals.”
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