John McGinn claims Aston Villa need to get ugly after throwing away more points against Burnley

For the second time in the space of a week Dean Smith’s men were unable to see the game out despite leading twice and McGinn fears he is beginning to sound “like a broken record.”

The Scot had netted his third goal of the season to put Villa 2-1 up in the 79th minute, only for Chris Wood to level things up for the visitors within 90 seconds.

McGinn said: “We didn't manage the game properly and we got punished.

“I know we are inexperienced at this level but we are learning the hard way. It is painful, you want to win.

“If you have just scored it is so important, everyone knows you are vulnerable.

“But we concede and it is a kick in the teeth because it is a game we deserve to win.

“We have said it so many times before it is just managing the game and doing what other teams do even if it is not pretty.

“Just boot it away or kick it as far high up in the stands as possible and re-group.

“I think personally that was the best performance of the season.

“As a team we pressed well and were organised and were a real threat.

“Maybe not so much in the second half but we got infront deservedly and it is frustrating because we deserved to win our home game.”

Anwar El Ghazi had earlier opened the scoring for Villa, before Jay Rodriguez equalised for Burnley midway through the second half.

McGinn actually thought he had broken the deadlock, only to see his 23rd minute correctly chalked off following a lengthy VAR check, due to Conor Hourihane having been offside in the build-up.

“The decisions that are marginal seem to be going against us at the minute,” he said.

“I believe it is offside so that is fair enough but it is the ones we have had over the past weeks that are frustrating us.

“VAR has been brought in to cut out the discussion and debate but it just seems to be adding to it.

“It is even worse when you celebrate it! You think you have scored infront of the Holte, I have only done that once, it was a long wait it really was.

“I knew because they hadn't taken kick off, it was longer than normal.

“But you can't change it. If I could change VAR being introduced I would.

“It is football and it happens but thankfully I managed to get a goal in the second half.

“I knew they couldn't check that one so I was glad to be able to celebrate it properly.”