“I did everything wrong.

"You are only as good as your last game - and my last game was that which doesn't merit a pub game for me. I was that poor.

”If you get a chance like me and blow it like I did, you can't go complaining when you don't get your chance. I'm going to have to go back into training and hopefully I will get the nod sooner rather than later and I can reveal the real Curtis Davies and not the evil twin that played against Leicester.

"I set my standards high and, for me, that was a poor performance. If I wasn't so poor, I wouldn't have been taken off. It is the first time I've been substituted in my life for playing reasons. I've just got to pick myself up and improve. I set my standards high. I've been talking myself up in the press, saying that I'm ready, and, by that performance against Leicester, I'm far from it. I'm hoping it is a one-off because I don't have many games like that. I [want to] prove to the Villa fans, if given the chance, that I am a good player.

"On this performance, I haven't given the manager any headaches. Martin Laursen is going to play against Tottenham and I'll be lucky to get on the bench. I've gone out there and done absolutely nothing for my chances. It is not the result I wanted and not the performance I wanted. I was awful, basically. No excuses at all.

"I've been training well, I feel fit, I've played well in the reserves - I know the reserves is different to the first team but I felt good. I just wasn't any good [on Wednesday]. Everything I did was wrong. It just didn't happen for me and I don't know why. At the end of the day I've got to impress these Villa fans better than I did against Leicester."

Curtis Davies on his debut.