Sky Sports pundits Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher disagreed on their confidence in Aston Villa's identity as a team after their 1-0 win over Southampton on Friday night.
Villa's next opponent is Leeds United at Elland Road on October 2nd due to the international break, with the Whites not having played a game since their 5-2 defeat to Brentford on September 3rd.
Speaking on Friday Night Football, Neville lashed out a Villa that 'lacked a pattern', saying that manager Steven Gerrard would be screaming for 'three or four' goals against teams like that in the future while Carragher was more positive and looked back to their recent 1-1 draw against Manchester City.
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“It’s very difficult to go from how they played against Man City to what Gary said about taking teams apart. It was a good performance because of the opposition, it wasn’t a good performance in terms of how they played, but the fact that they stayed in the game and defended really well, it was always going to be a different type of performance.
“I think on the back of the Man City game, even the team Stevie picked, you couldn’t continue to pick a team like that when you’ve got players like Buendia and Coutinho in the team. One of those has to play, maybe two of them, certainly when you’re playing teams at home.
“What you need to do is build their confidence so their confidence for the next couple of weeks as a club will be, ‘we got three points, can you build on the performance?’ Then maybe you’ll see more results and Aston Villa with the attacking players that they’ve got, scoring more goals,” Carragher added.
Neville continued to go after both side's attacking playstyles, saying: “It’s the first Premier League game I’ve watched this season where I felt both teams lacked a pattern and an identity.
"It was almost just trying to get through the game and win the points and usually when we’ve watched Premier League games this season they have that sort of pattern, that identity, what they’re trying to do.
“It felt like both these teams weren’t in great places tonight. They’ve obviously just resorted to, in some ways, one pass at a time, there was no rhythm in the game at all.”
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