Aston Villa lost 3-0 at home to Swansea City on Saturday afternoon.
Aston Villa crashed out of the FA Cup in the Third Round on Saturday afternoon as they were hammered 3-0 by Swansea City at Villa Park.
The Swans raced into an early lead as Courtney Baker-Richardson bundled the ball home from close range, giving Graham Potter’s side a platform to build on away from home.
Nathan Dyer slotted home a second from a superb Leroy Fer pass, before Jay Fulton tucked home a third to send Swansea into the Fourth Round of the competition.
It was a disappointing display from Villa, who didn’t really turn up and offered a fairly drab display, even with new signing Lovre Kalinic in the side.
The Croatian international has joined in a big-money move from Gent, and has been snapped up to be Villa’s new first-choice goalkeeper – even before Orjan Nyland suffered a significant injury.
Kalinic, 28, was handed a Villa debut on Saturday after being given international clearance, but it didn’t exactly go to plan for the giant shot-stopper.
Some Villa fans took to Twitter to criticise Kalinic, suggesting that he looks ‘ridiculously slow’ to get down to shots, and looked awful on his debut.
Others felt that the defence in front of him did him no favours, noting that they felt sorry for him that Dean Smith had put him into the side behind such a patchwork defence.
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