Irish Sunday Mirror

SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 2

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It’s now one win in Bruce’s last eight games, including the Carabao Cup embarrassm­ent against League One Burton, and Bruce (above) admitted: “We were poor.

“We got lifted by a wonderful John Mcginn goal to put us level, but how long did that last? Fifteen minutes?

“That’s not good enough. We didn’t play well enough. A huge disappoint­ment. We had five, six, seven players below par and it turned into one of those awful afternoons.”

Boos echoed around the ground from Villa fans in the 35,572 crowd, while Wednesday supporters danced with delight.

Bruce has been taking stick on social media but is asking for more time. It was his 100th game in charge of Villa and he said: “That was my sixth home defeat, two of

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