Dan Bardell hosts The Athletic's podcast all about Aston Villa with regular contributors, club correspondent Gregg Evans and Junior Editor Holly Percival.

Everyone's feeling much better about things after a win away on the south coast. It may not have been the most fluent performance, but Steven Gerrard's decision to refresh the squad this week looks to have had the desired effect.

Southampton are next and, while we are having nightmares about James Ward-Prowse, at least Danny Ings won't be trying to put the ball in the Villa net.

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