Tyrone Mings: Everyone at Aston Villa must stick together

Villa go to Stoke on Saturday desperately looking to improve a run of two wins in 13 games which has seen them slide nine points adrift of the Championship play-off places.

Bournemouth loanee Mings posted a message on Twitter urging unity in the wake of last weekend’s derby defeat to Albion.

And he explained: “That would be my message to everyone, whether it is management or players, loan players anybody.

“We all need to pull in the same direction and try and achieve the same goal at the end of it.

“Everyone who supports the team and everyone who works with the team has the same goals.

“It’s important whether things are going right or going wrong that we stick to those beliefs and keep the main goal in sight.”

Mings has put in four impressive performances since joining from the Cherries on deadline day but is yet to taste victory in a Villa shirt.

And he added: “I would have taken four average performances for four wins.

“Every player that steps onto the pitch has a responsibility to do as well as they can. It is a team game but it is made up of 11 individuals.

“If everyone takes responsibility for doing their own job and does it well, hopefully the team will benefit from that.

“As a player coming in, that’s all I can do. I don’t think we are that far away from turning negative results into positive ones but when you go through periods like this you have to work even harder to get out of it.”

Villa, with just one win from 10 games in all competitions, will face a Stoke team in even worse form, having recorded just one victory in 12.

Mings said: “We know it will be tough. I go into every game with the impression it is the biggest of my career because that is the only one you can influence. That will be the same this weekend.

“I don’t think we have been far away at all. I just think it needs a bit more ruthlessness, a bit more aggression and trying to start games the way we seem to finish them.”