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Stan Collymore reacts to Aston Villa draw with Birmingham City

Radio commentator and tv pundit Stan Collymore watches from media position at St James' Park (Reuters)
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Aston Villa and Birmingham City played out a 1-1 draw on Sunday afternoon.

Former Aston Villa star Stan Collymore has taken to Twitter to react to the draw with Birmingham City in the Midlands derby.

Birmingham hosted their fierce rivals at St Andrew’s in the first meeting between the two sides in the league in four years.

It proved to be an entertaining afternoon of football as Gary Gardner’s header put the visitors ahead in the first half.

Gary Gardner celebrates scoring the first goal for Aston Villa

They could not hold on to their lead, though, as David Davis fired home to level the scores and see the two teams end up taking a point apiece.

In truth, Villa were fortunate to get anything as Gary Rowett’s team enjoyed 60 per cent of the possession and registered 14 shots in total.

And Collymore criticised the Villans’ performance when reacting to the result on Twitter, singling out three men for criticism.

David Davis celebrates scoring the first goal for Birmingham City

While Collymore was disappointed by the result, it continues Villa’s solid turnaround since Bruce took over earlier this month.

They are now four games unbeaten under his leadership and have moved up to 15th place in the table.

That leaves them six points outside of the top six, although they are also only four outside the bottom four so perhaps attention should be spent on increasing that gap first.

Aston Villa Manager Steve Bruce