Aston Villa’s season is continuing to unravel after a second successive defeat was handed to them against rivals West Bromwich Albion.

Darren Moore’s Baggies went to Villa Park and thanks to two goals in four minutes just before the break was the difference between the sides.

Hal Robson-Kanu gave the visitors the lead on 41 minutes before Jay Rodriguez doubled their advantage on the stroke of the interval.

That put Dean Smith’s side two the sword to compound them to extend their winless run to four matches – and move to just one win in their last nine.

West Brom did a job on their hosts and in doing that, stifled their creativity in the midfield.

With Jack Grealish still out injured, the burden was placed on the shoulders of the players involved instead, in particular, John McGinn who has been influential this season – more so earlier on.

The Baggies dominance put pay to any such influence the 24-year-old who struggled to put his mark on the game.

McGinn had two shots all game – one was on target with the other being blocked.

That was all he could muster with attempts on goal, with his efforts instead, a little deeper on the pitch.

The Scotland international managed just 5.1 per cent possession for his side during the game and had only 68 touches of the ball.

Glenn Whelan, Tyrone Mings, Kortney Hause, Alana Hutton and Tommy Elphick all had more touches than the man trusted with creating for Smith’s side.

There was not much time on the ball for the midfielder who instead was forced to be on the back foot more.

McGinn attempted four tackles and won them, the most in the game – showing his job was doing the dirty side of the work than maybe first imagined.

Passing wise, McGinn failed to feature in top five in the majority of passing statistics, with passes made (37) and completed passes (31).

It’s under what the midfielder usually posts in a game, and that was down to the effectiveness of Moore’s side.

McGinn did manage three key passes, which was the most in the game – so the Baggies were unable to fully supress the dynamic midfielder.

He only managed one dribble throughout the whole game and one accurate corner from the four he took during the 90 minutes.

When on the ball, McGinn was dispossessed four times – the most from the Villa side and second out of both teams.

With that, he also got booked and struggled to assert his dominance into the game which would ultimately see Villa fail to score and fail to win from two shots on target all game.

West Brom’s dominance affected the ability of the club’s better players to place their influence on the game throughout.