Southgate frustration over penalty

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But Southgate was unhappy at the penalty awarded by referee Steve Bennett for alleged handball by Luke Young which allowed Villa skipper Gareth Barry to score a fortuitous second-half equaliser.

Southgate said: "We are maintaining our policy about not complaining about referees but I do question whether it is helping us."

He added: "I have seen the incident again and our lad (Luke Young) has got his back to the play. The shot is hit from only a couple of yards away and I don't see the handball is anything but involuntary.

"I'm bitterly disappointed for my players because we've done so well tonight. Yes, we should have wrapped the game up with a couple of chances we had but we are fighting for our lives and the penalty was a very difficult decision to take."

Villa manager Martin O'Neill was at a loss to explain his team's inept performance after they had performed so well at Arsenal in the previous game.

He said: "We didn't play well. We played very poorly and it was particularly disappointing in the first half. If was 40 minutes before we had a shot on goal."