Aston Villa v Fulham Post-Match Thread

[eamonn]

Oh and Blose have three games in hand over us, we're far from out of danger yet.

[madirishvillain]

i havent rated Friedel for a very long time, but with what we have as backup, we have to go with him


30 million spent on that team last month?

im fitter than Makoun and i smoke 20 a day


very very annoyed tonight

[Fergal]

Not that we will, but on balance we deserve to go down.

Don't be daft!

I agree, daftest thing posted on this forum today.

[richard moore]

One does fear/hope (depending on your opinion) that Gabby and Young might well be gone come the summer

You just get the feeling, rightly or wrongly, that their time at Villa has run its course. As one does with Petrov...

[PaulWinch again]

i havent rated Friedel for a very long time, but with what we have as backup, we have to go with him


30 million spent on that team last month?

im fitter than Makoun and i smoke 20 a day


very very annoyed tonight

Makoun was excellent.

[Holtenderinthesky]

Ashley Young is fuckin useless. 

Makoun is absolute quality. 

Friedel should hang up his gloves. 

Gutted, but at least they didn't nick a winner. 

Oh and how many points is it now that we''ve  thrown away in the last 15 minutes this season???

[Reuben]

If we'd kept going as we were up to the first goal we could have had the game won by half time.  Why do we let teams get back into it?

As a result, Fulham didn't do much but deserved the draw as we offered little too.

[Jockey Randall]

I think we were just unlucky to meet a side in their best form of the season. Our next few fixtures are a different matter though and I expect us to climb the table over the next month. Thought Fulham were impressive today, their confidence is clearly sky high so I'm not as pissed off with a draw as I would have been against other mid table sides. Defence is definitely the priority in the summer though.

[Shrek]

Petrov was shocking today, we had no legs in midfield, we were crying out for NRC.

Does Bent ever make a goal for himself?

[BedsVillain]

We're playing good football. Good enough to stay up! We just need to sort our defence out. Friedel will be dissapointed with him self when he watches the game back.

Without being reactionary, I still think if Liverpool or whoever offer £18m+ for Ashley I'd accept and invest elsewhere. Downing looked good today, we know what Albrighton can do, but I'm sure we could find 2 decent winger/playmakers abroad for the money we'd get from Young and still have change to spare!

[D.boy]

So frustrating this afternoon.
Petrov should have been subbed early second half.
Young needs to be out on the wing, Gabby up front with Bent,
Makoun had a poor 2nd half as the midfield went missing and Dunne/Collins reverted to hoof ball.
2 costly errors by Brad.
2 points dropped.

[Toronto Villa]

Your next project Mr.Houllier is to fix the defence. It isn't good enough. Very disappointing not to take 3 points today.

In fairness to the defence, it was two individual errors by the goalkeeper that cost us today. Friedel has had some good games this season, but we need to have a replacement ready in the summer.

Makoun was decent considering he's not been here long. Reo Coker must be wondering what he has to do to get in the team ahead of Petrov who can't run after the first half an hour.

Gabby and Young, who, a couple of years ago, looked like the jewels of our best team in years, were shit yet again. Hopefully we'll replace them too.

Freidel is part of that defence. It was him today, but it's been the fault of other defenders this season. Games where Friedel has bailed them out. I just think as a group we are not composed enough. Much of that is down to the keeper, and much of that is down to the players who make mental errors or aren't comfortable enough on the ball and give it away more than they should.

[PaulWinch again]

We play a lot of good stuff, but we need to created more chances for Bent.

[madirishvillain]

i havent rated Friedel for a very long time, but with what we have as backup, we have to go with him


30 million spent on that team last month?

im fitter than Makoun and i smoke 20 a day


very very annoyed tonight

Makoun was excellent.

for the 1st 45 as he was at wigan

then he disappears

[brontebilly]

We scored two fluke goals and Friedel helped them to their two. A really poor performance. Bent but particularly Young and Gabby were hopeless. When Young was moved to the left very early on he drew two yellow cards but how he was left hiding up his own hole for 75mins plus beggars belief. I really think Gabby is a lone centre forward or nothing. Short of confidence and fitness he is nothing at the moment. Cannot see Bent and himself working together long term either for those reasons. Downing actually had a decent game. I felt sorry for our two midfielders as they tried to do the right thing but there was zero ahead of them today. That is a poor Fulham side but if we had taken 3 points it would have been undeserved.

Poor formation and tactics from the outset compounded by substitutions made far too late. Moving Downing to centre was a nonsense aswell as we were wide open totally after that.

That was really poor.