​Aston Villa boss Gerrard: We can build on Man City draw

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5 Sep 2022 • 2:15 PM MYT
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Aston Villa boss Steven Gerrard has urged his side to build on their draw against Manchester City.

The Midlands club secured a valuable Premier League point, holding the reigning champions to a draw at home on Saturday.

A late Leon Bailey goal was enough for Villa to share the spoils, despite City's second half domination of the ball.

Post-game, Gerrard said: "The game at this level is very dangerous. If we go into Leicester next week and think just because we've performed well this week it guarantees us anything next week, it doesn't.

"We've got to reset and remember what we had to put into Saturday collectively to get a decent outcome. Hopefully we can get the same or better come next week. We have that base now.

"It's important we build, we take the positives and the confidence and the belief from the performance."

He added: "Outside of Aston Villa there would have been very few who believed we could take something from the game. That is probably understandable if you look at our recent results.

"But sometimes in my position as a player and in the short time I've been coaching, that can be a help, where you can use that as motivation to galvanise your group, stick together.

"That's the reason the point feels nice right now because everyone on the outside didn't give us a chance. The players showed when we are at it and when we get a lot of things right we can cause any teams problems."