Aston Villa midfielder Nigel Reo-Coker has cited mistakes as the major factor for his sides loss to MSK Zilina in the Uefa Cup.

"I don't think we started well enough and we made silly mistakes and from then on it was going to be an uphill struggle," Reo-Coker said.

"The (changed) team was given a job to go out and perform and prove you deserve to play and we simply didn't play well enough in the first half.

"You never like to lose games but we can't let it affect us, we have an important league game on Sunday (against Everton)."