John McGinn felt Aston Villa didn’t capitalise on their opportunities during Wednesday night’s 2-1 loss to Manchester City.
The midfielder fired his side ahead after just 20 seconds as Villa unsettled the league leaders in the early stages.
City then took the lead before being reduced to ten men – a numerical advantage that the hosts held for only 13 minutes before Matty Cash was also sent-off.
McGinn said: “It was a strange night. The overall feeling is frustration. We all know we had an opportunity in the game to take it to City and we didn’t do that enough.
“We touched on it at half-time – to not let the ref level it out, but unfortunately that happened. Cashy’s been different class all season and he’ll learn from that.
“They’re a top team and they make it very, very difficult. I’m just glad we don’t need to play them again this season.”
His goal came as a relief to the Scotsman, who’d gone 26 league games without finding the net since his first goal of the campaign against Liverpool back in October.
However, McGinn admitted the strike didn’t mean as much given the end result.
He said: “It’s been bugging me. I’ve been trying so hard to get on the scoresheet. It’s been happening for Scotland but not for Villa.
“Ollie was fantastic for the goal down the left-hand side and it was something we worked on. We probably didn’t do it enough; we didn’t build on it and do the same thing.
“I’m glad to have ended the goal drought but I would have swapped it for a positive result.”
