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BRUCE BLASTS HIS ‘FRAGILE’ VILLA FLOPS

By Alex Bywater

ASTON VILLA manager Steve Bruce admitted his team had been embarrassed in their drubbing by Cardiff City.
Nathaniel Mendez-Laing scored in either half and Junior Hoilett was also on target as Neil Warnock’s Bluebirds moved top of the Championship.
Villa were woeful in the Welsh capital and lacked a cutting edge in attack as they went down to a deserved defeat just a week after their opening-day draw with Hull.
Bruce said: “Everything went wrong apart from the first 20 minutes. We made a bad mistake for the first goal and after that it was on the verge of embar...

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