In this task, you will be shown a passage. You need to write a fill-in-the-gap question based on your understanding of the events that might be inferred from the passage. Your question should be answerable based on the passage and only have one correct answer. Show the gap in your question with a _ .

Failing footballers love an excuse, and right now it looks to me like the Aston Villa players are happy to stroll around or even stand still while Randy Lerner takes all the blame. The Aston Villa owner has slashed the budget, and lowered standards to the point where they are heading down and out from the Barclays Premier League, so his performance should be scrutinised. But take a look at the players too, some of them are cheating the fans. Just take a look at Alan Hutton's foul for Arsenal's penalty on Sunday – does he think man-handling Theo Walcott in the box like that is the best option?Aston Villa were beaten 2-0 by Arsenal in the Premier League on SundayTheir players looked happy to stroll around while others take the blamePot shots from range were taken to make them look better to their fansRemi Garde's team selection was off and his appointment seemed odd
_ have better players, but there is no excuse for not running.

It is not often you hear this said but the goalkeeper really should have scored. Deep in injury time, with Blackburn’s FA Cup journey about to end, Simon Eastwood appeared for a corner and found the ball at his feet as it dropped from a jumble of players 12 yards out. Eastwood, oddly, had time and, even more strangely given the melee in the area, he had space, too. He had the whole goal to aim at. He should have scored. As it happened, his right-foot shot on the turn was struck well enough but it was straight at Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet, who managed to parry the ball and then grab it as it threatened to spin over the line.Philippe Coutinho scored in the 70th minute for Liverpool at Ewood ParkThe Brazilian found the bottom corner of Simon Eastwood's goal in FA Cup quarter-final replayThe first tie between the two sides at Anfield last month ended in a goalless drawLiverpool to face Aston Villa in semi-final at Wembley on Sunday, April 19
_ goalkeeper Simon Eastwood almost scored a dramatic late equaliser when he went up for a stoppage-time corner.

Google has rebranded itself as Alphabet, a new umbrella company which will oversee eight firms, including the search engine Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced the surprise move in a blog post on Monday after stocks closed. It means the firm will be able to lend more focus on risky ventures at its 'moonshot factory' Google[x] - developing robots, self-driving cars and studying life sciences - while keeping investors happy. In the shake-up, Page will become the chief executive of Alphabet, while his fellow founder of the $367.6 billion company, Sergey Brin, will become the holding company's president. Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai, a rising star in Silicon Valley, will receive a long-awaited promotion to become CEO of Google, which will now solely be a search engine.Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced shake-up in blog post on MondayAlphabet will replace Google as the publicly-traded entity and all shares of will automatically convert into the same number of shares of AlphabetGoogle will remain a search engine, and the largest of Alphabet's 8 firmsIt means they can put more focus on moonshot factory Google[x] while allowing investors to have a detailed insight into how money is being spentPage is now Alphabet CEO, Brin is president, Sundar Pichai is Google CEOPage said it is a bid to spur innovation and growth as Google nears 20

Page told a group of shareholders in July that he saw Warren Buffett's multinational conglomerate holding company as a business model to aspire to - despite sharing barely anything in common with _.