... he scores two first-half goals, actually looks half-decent, and Hughton takes him off!
THEN Houghton complains the second-half was rubbish!
Chris Hughton: “I would be very surprised if he was pleased to come off when he’s already scored two goals, but it was the right decision.
“Marlon’s a lad that has got stronger and fitter in the time he has been here. He’d missed a big chunk of pre-season at Villa.
"He would have liked an opportunity to get a third, and that would probably have been fitting, but it’s about the team. I just felt we needed to freshen things up.
“We’ve got good momentum at the moment and that makes a big difference.
"Winning becomes a habit.
“You sometimes get a little bit disappointed because you want everything and at 3-0 up I felt we didn’t do well enough in the second half. On another occasion, we might not get away with it.
“But I generally feel that if the score is 0-0 at half-time, I don’t think we get that second-half performance.
"We’ve produced some really good finishes recently, and we’ve been helped by some really good delivery.
"That hasn’t always been the case.
"We’ve had periods of the season where we’d have liked to have made things a bit more comfortable for ourselves, but they’ve ended up being quite scrappy wins.
“If you ask anybody in my position, you want to win the game however you win it.”