Crystal Palace v Aston Villa post match thread

[cdbearsfan]

I think VAR can't be brought in because the free kick wasn't given for the goal. So if he thinks someone punches the ball in or scores a goal while pulling someone's shirt, he can send it to VAR. If it's off the ball, he can't.

Friend found the only way he could to deny us a goal.

If he'd refereed like that against Manchester United, he'd be relegated to the Championship. As it's Villa, nothing will happen. He'll probably be given the West Ham game.

[PeterWithesShin]

This is the 'dive' https://twitter.com/mattlyynch/status/1167829354514132992

[David_Nab]

Not great , for me physically couldn#t compete and gave away stupid fouls and ended up with a red

But my god that disallowed goal is an utter disgrace ..VAR what the point of it when something like that happens

[wince]

I really prefer the championship. The premier league just seems to be a circus. We were shit but the referee needs investigating for blatant bias. And what is the point of VAR if it doesn’t review decisions such as the disallowed goal? Pointless.

[Percy McCarthy]

The ref was shit. Seemed like a booking for every foul by us first half. As for our goal, fucking joke.

Many thanks to Villa in Denmark for the pm.

[Sexual Ealing]

Anyone know why our fans were singing"fuck the EFL"?

Also that Kinda song is grim in every aspect.

[PeterWithesShin]

Includes another angle https://twitter.com/it_is_elliott/status/1167828693827424257

[Villa in Denmark]

Surely the thread title should be Kevin Friend's Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Post Match Thread?

We didn't play well but we were stitched up by that ******.  They committed the worse fouls, but didn't get booked until it was too late to effect anything.  We'd got fullbacks dancing on eggshells from 10-15 minutes or earlier for nothing challenges.

[Toronto Villa]

This is the 'dive' https://twitter.com/mattlyynch/status/1167829354514132992

The reverse angle is even more damning. Friend had no desire to go to VAR. Cheating fuck.

[djbone]

We didn't play well, but certainly didn't think we played that badly either. It was a tight, physical game first half, which we were punished for far more than them.

Yes we didn't create enough, but we competed well, defended really well, and kept positive even with 10 men.  But we were cheated out of a draw by the worst refereeing I've seen for many years.

[themossman]

You can make all the excuses you want about Spurs and Bournemouth and this, but in all honesty we have a habit of losing and we look like relegation right now.

We do - our reliance on one suitable striker is starting to look stupidly naive and puts immense pressure on the team not to concede, which seems to be affecting them badly.

I agree it looks like its going to be a tough year in the league, with nobody cut adrift at the bottom. Even Newcastle haven’t been that bad. We’re looking like the most likely to go down at the moment.

[Toronto Villa]

Includes another angle https://twitter.com/it_is_elliott/status/1167828693827424257

At 30 seconds just look where Friend is. He simply could not have had a better view of BOTH fouls.

[Risso]

We were shite and Mings had his worst game in a Villa shirt, but that ref is the most appalling I've seen in 30 years.

[Hampshire Villa]

I hate this Premier league

[The Edge]

We played pretty poorly but that was a shocking decision by Friend.

Decision? Make that decisions. We weren't great obviously but he was fucking awful. When Chris Kamara says "he seemed to really enjoy gicvng that red card" it tells you something.There was something not right with that ref today. Just hope that anti villla twat Danny Murphy doesn't get to analyse it on MOTD as i'll probably boil over.