It turns out Danny Ings and Ollie Watkins are a pretty good Villa pair

All this time playing just one of Danny Ings or Ollie Watkins. It turns out they're pretty good together.

Steven Gerrard had only selected one or the other in Aston Villa's last four Premier League games. Yet in a bid to get back to winning ways after one win in their last seven outings, Gerrard used Ings and Watkins as partners — two No 9s under orders to work hard for each other — in front of a No 10 in Philippe Coutinho.

They targeted the outside centre backs in Brighton's back-three system and it worked well with Gerrard's tactical tweaks helping Villa to victory.

'That is my job,' Gerrard said of trying to improve his goalscorers. 'My job is not to listen to outside noise. 

'My job is to analyse and judge what I see on a daily basis. And I see two top centre forwards who are capable of scoring goals at this level. 

'Of course they are a work in progress as a partnership, but they get on well off the pitch and they have got the talent to play together.

'I said to them, 'Look, I don't want to be in the position where I am playing one of you one week and one of you the next. I want goals. I want my goalscorers on the pitch'.

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