Young - Villa ready for fight

Winger insists 'character and strength' will come to the fore

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Young - Villa ready for fight

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Ashley Young insists Aston Villa have the stomach for the fight in the closing stages of the season after learning from their previous failures.

Martin O'Neill's side capitulated at the end of the 2008/09 campaign as they surrendered fourth spot in the Premier League on the back of only 11 points from their last 13 games.

But after Sunday's determined FA Cup quarter-final victory at Reading, where Villa came from two goals down to win 4-2, Young insists he and his team-mates are in a determined frame of mind as they again chase a top-four finish.

The winger is confident the mistakes from last season will not be repeated and thinks that reaching the FA Cup semi-finals was the perfect way to bounce back from the Carling Cup final defeat to Manchester United at the end of February.

Massive

Young, who scored Villa's first at the Madejski Stadium, said in the Daily Star: "Last season is last season. We are looking forward and concentrating on things this season.

"We had a great League Cup run and got to the final. It was disappointing to lose, but now we are in another semi-final, going back to Wembley and we are doing well in the league.

"To come back from two goals down shows the character and the strength we have got here as a team to come back from anything.

"We will learn from what happened last season. You always learn from things that didn't go so well.

"We know we have a massive couple of months ahead of us and we are ready."