Aston Villa boss Alex McLeish was pleased to see Stiliyan Petrov on the scoresheet in the draw with Sunderland.

Petrov's finish belied the fact that it was only his sixth goal in 167 appearances for Villa, and boss Alex McLeish admitted he was a little surprised the Bulgarian has not got on the scoresheet more often.

McLeish said: "Stiliyan scored a lot of goals with Celtic but he was more of an attacking midfielder. He has had to modify his game a little bit and has been used in a different way.

"He's a great striker of the ball and he's also pretty accurate from distance, so if we can get him in those positions more often we should see him scoring more of those kinds of goals."