Academy: VILLA 1-1 Bristol City

By Dan Harrison

Tony McAndrew praised Samir Carruthers after the midfielder answered his coach's call for more goals to earn Villa a point.

Prior to the game, McAndrew had encouraged Carruthers to get himself into goalscoring positions more often.

And the midfielder responded in style by netting his first goal of the campaign.

The visitors had taken the lead before Carruthers won possession and skilfully executed a fine lob to equalise on the stroke of half-time.

McAndrew said: "Funnily enough, we were having a chat with young Samir about him not scoring this season because we didn't think he'd been getting into good positions enough.

"But he managed to take the ball off the midfielder, go ...