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# Aston Villa manager Grard Houllier admits team are facing a survival battle
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after Manchester City defeat
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## Gerard Houllier has admitted that Aston Villa are facing a battle for
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Premier League survival after the 4-0 defeat at Manchester City left the club
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just two points above the relegation zone.
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![Aston Villa manager Grard Houllier admits team are facing a survival battle
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after Manchester City defeat][1]
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Troubled expression: Grard Houllier knows his team must start winning or his
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job will be on the line Photo: REUTERS
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By [Mark Ogden][4] 9:24PM GMT 28 Dec 2010
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The former Liverpool manager, who has overseen eight defeats and five
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victories since arriving as successor to Martin O'Neill at Villa Park in
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September, was subjected to chants calling for him to leave the club by
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disgruntled supporters as Villa slumped to their sixth defeat in seven games.
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And with champions Chelsea next up for Villa this weekend, Houllier conceded
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that the club - who achieved three successive top-six finishes under O'Neill -
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must now accept that avoiding relegation is the objective in the second half
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of the campaign.
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"We are in a relegation battle, definitely." Houllier said. "But we knew that
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we would have a difficult run of games over Christmas with Tottenham,
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Manchester City and Chelsea.
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"Before this game, three points more would have put us in the top half, but
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another way to look at it is the drop zone behind and we are in the fight for
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that and we have to acknowledge that.
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"Confidence is something that we need to address. We can't look too much at
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this game - it's a missed game because we didn't play at the level that we
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can. We need to turn the corner."
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* [Man City 4 Aston Villa 0][7]
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28 Dec 2010
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* [Houllier not to blame, says Petrov][8]
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27 Dec 2010
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* [Aston Villa 1 Tottenham 2][9]
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26 Dec 2010
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* [Woodgate's 'make or break' move][10]
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Villa's problems at Eastlands were exacerbated by the absence of Norwegian
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forward John Carew, who missed the game,telling Houllier he was unfit after
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getting stranded in Norway due to the recent adverse weather.
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Houllier said: "He would have been in the squad, but he came to me and said he
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was not fit enough.
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"We gave the players two days off after the Wigan game [on Dec 18] and he went
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to Norway and he was stuck. I have to accept that there was snow everywhere."
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Also absent were former City players Richard Dunne and Stephen Ireland.
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Dunne has been left out of Houllier's squad since allegedly clashing with
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assistant manager Gary McAllister earlier this month, while Ireland, who has
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fallen out of favour with Houllier, was cited as having a knee problem.
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Despite the disaffection of some of his senior players and the negativity from
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the terraces, Houllier insists he has identified the root of Villa's problems.
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He said: "I didn't hear [the chanting], but the problem is in the team and the
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problems I have to deal with are in the team. There are reasons."
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Meanwhile, City manager Roberto Mancini has claimed in an interview in
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_Gazzetta dello Sport_ that referees are "prejudiced" against his team.
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City started Tuesday Dec 28 at the foot of the Premier League's disciplinary
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table, and Mancini said: "I have the impression that referees are prejudiced,
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to say the least, with City and I do not understand why.
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"At least two of the cautions [against Newcastle on Boxing Day] were
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excessive. We do not play a hard game and, every time, we try to play good
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