With the title race all but done and the relegation battle increasingly looking like a formality, the race for Europe is where the storylines are forming towards the latter stages of this Premier League campaign.
For Aston Villa, playing European football has taken its toll this season with Unai Emery’s side failing to win any of their previous seven games that came after a Champions League fixture.
Here at Brentford, they put an end to that dreadful statistic with an impressive victory that took them up to 7th and just two points behind Manchester City in fourth.