Aston Villa appear to be going through something of a goalscoring crisis at the moment. Danny Ings and Ollie Watkins have netted just three times between them all season, with Villa scoring only six times in the Premier League.

Steven Gerrard will now surely be regretting not bringing in another striker during the summer transfer window, and this could come back to haunt the 42-year-old if Villa’s form doesn’t pick up soon.

If the Englishman could turn back time, he might wish he could have a former Villa hitman leading the line in his current team…

Juan Pablo Angel would star under Gerrard

In December 2000, Villa manager John Gregory splashed out a then-club record transfer fee of £9.5m to bring Colombian striker Juan Pablo Angel to the Premier League.

He had shone at River Plate, scoring 36 goals for the Argentine club, and this prompted Gregory to make a move for the player.

Angel struggled initially in the Midlands, not scoring his first goal for the club until May 2001, but this proved to be the catalyst which endeared the striker to the Villa faithful over the next six years.

The Colombian eventually went on to score 62 times in a Villa shirt and became quite a fan favourite in his seven-year spell with the club.

He was extremely strong and clinical once he got into the penalty box and these attributes enabled him to shine in the Premier League. His best season was 2003/04, when he scored 23 goals and led the club to a sixth-place finish and a League Cup semi-final.

His later years at the club weren’t as prolific, and he moved to the MLS, playing for New York Red Bulls, LA Galaxy and Chivas USA before retiring at his first club Atletico Nacional in 2014.

A total of 72 goals during his time in MLS proved that he still had the finishing touch, and he will surely go down as one of the finest Villa strikers of the 21st century.

Angel would star in this current squad, especially with creative talents such as Philippe Coutinho and Emiliano Buendia supplying him with plenty of goalscoring opportunities.

Aston Villa's official Twitter channel still regularly posts videos of his goals and have dubbed the striker as “vintage” in one of their goal-of-the-day videos.

He would terrorise defences in the current top flight and who knows how many goals he would score. One thing seems for certain - if he were leading the line for them this season, Villa would have scored more than six league goals by now.