Amadou Onana believes Aston Villa must strive for more consistency if they are to challenge for another top-four Premier League finish this season. Villa have followed up recent big wins at RB Leipzig and against Manchester City with defeats at Nottingham Forest and Newcastle to slip five points adrift of the top four.

"We stuck together as a team, tried to do as good as we could and I'm proud of the team for showing that mentality." "We've just got to try to be better - myself first - just try to get as many points as we can.

Newcastle United beat Aston Villa 3-0 on Boxing Day, but the game was overshadowed by a 20-man tunnel melee at St James' Park at half-time - where both sides' analysts were sent off