Aston Villa skipper Stiliyan Petrov says Molineux's narrow pitch was no excuse for their 1-1 draw at Wolves.

Wolves have reduced the size of their pitch this season by five metres in length and four metres in width, and it helped nullify the impact made by Villa wingers Ashley Young and James Milner.

But Villa skipper Petrov refused to use that as an excuse for his side's poor performance in contrast to when they defeated Chelsea the previous week.

He said: "Some pitches are getting smaller and smaller but we just need to adapt and make no excuses.

"When the big teams like Manchester United and Liverpool come here to Molineux, they won't have that excuse.

"They will try to adapt and win the game and that's what we tried to do. We were on the back foot. We were under pressure from the start. We couldn't keep the ball. Sometimes in games like that we need to take the sting out of the game and make the opposition chase the ball more.

"We are working on that and I hope in the future we will get wins from games like that."

Petrov added: "The manager said at half-time that he has never seen us play so bad this season - and that was right. We knew that without him even saying that. We knew it was not happening for us. He told us what we needed to change to make things better in the second half and we took his advice and we looked better in the second half.

"It's a long season. We will play different opposition, face different styles of football, and we just need to learn from that. We need to learn quick and maybe one or two season we would have lost that game.

"But we got the point we needed and, as long as we don't lose games, and keep adding points, for us it is great."