Dean Smith will be waking up this morning, knowing there is a big task ahead of him at Aston Villa, following a 2-1 defeat to in-form Norwich City at Carrow Road last night.

Having taken the lead through a 19th minute James Chester goal, Villa fell foul of a Jordan Rhodes second half double that saw then drop to 16th in the table.

With a trip to a resurgent QPR facing Smith on Friday night, he will need to rally his troops is they are not to fall further off the pace in the Championship.

But what went wrong for Villa last night?

We discuss.....

Jacob Potter

The manager's substitutions, Dean Smith got them very wrong.

The new Villa boss chose to bring on Scott Hogan early on instead of the club’s top goalscorer, Jonathan Kodjia which was a huge mistake.

Hogan is still building up his match fitness levels, having not featured much in recent years and Kodjia was only given nine minutes to make an impact, as Villa fell to defeat to the Canaries.

Alfie Burns

A goalkeeping error and poor substitutions.

Orjan Nyland will never convince me, whilst losing Tammy Abraham and Albert Adomah didn’t help.

Dean Smith is an excellent manager and he will get it right at Villa Park, but his decisions last night cost his side a result.

Gary Hutchinson

Nothing went wrong, they got beat by a better side.

Norwich have had a manager in place for enough time to get his messages across and recruit players he feels will push his side on.

Dean Smith is two games in and was playing a top six side.

His side, right now, are not top six.

Jay Taylor

Aston Villa are still in transition, so there will be there's bumps and those kinds of results until Dean Smith has ingrained what he wants from his side.

Saturday’s home win was the perfect start but there’s a lot of work to do at Villa and that once again came to the fore in last night’s defeat.

It will take time for Smith to get the team playing how he wants them on a consistent basis.