Aston Villa aren't panicking after their thumping at Manchester City.

Defeat was a reality check for Villa, who had begun the season confidently with two wins and five draws in seven league games, but manager McLeish saw many positives.

McLeish said: "We're a team in transition, a squad in transition.

"We have a lot of young players and it is a learning curve.

"I'm disappointed we're not coming away with something and if we'd defended better at corner kicks I believe we could have.

"At 3-1 we were still in it and the next goal was very important, but we lost it and that was the only time in the game that the energy drained from the players.

"They gave everything and worked hard. We were bold in our approach, we tried to get Gabby [Gabriel Agbonlahor] and Benty [Darren Bent] into the last third and it worked for a while.

"But, if you lose goals like that, you can forget it. We'll be on the training ground this week trying to put that right.

"Teams will be saying, 'City cut Villa to ribbons' but they didn't and, when they see the goals, they'll see horrendous defending."