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Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayot Akimwalere.

At the end of January, Aston Villa were level on points with Manchester City,

seven points off leader's arsenal.

One winning six, though, has left them clinging onto a place in the top four. So are the wheels following off

for Unai Emery's side? All right, in with us today. We've got Stu James. We've also got our

Aston Villa correspondent, Jacob Tanswell, as well. All right, Jacob, let's start with you on this one.

Back-to-back defeat for Asden Villa now,

first Wolves, now Chelsea, last night. Can you just explain what on earth is going on to this team?

Yeah, we spoke before we came on about, I've been on here about three times, and the first time

Villa was in this right at the start of the season. Everything was going awfully. Then

second time, Villa could potentially push for a Premier League title and now it's kind of gone

back to how the early season was padding out. What's happening is it's pretty wild really because

Villa are a fourth still. If you asked Emory and you asked supporters that, you know, especially

back in September and that tumultuous summer when they were stifle of PSR, that they'd be fourth and still with a relatively good buffer from sick place, they are taking that.

But the mood at the moment is completely opposite.

It's pessimistic.

It's negative.

And especially in these last two games, the performances have been alarming.

Probably Chelsea, as we'll come onto, it was probably been as better attacking performances.

They created more chances.

They were a bit more dangerous.

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