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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: PeterWithesShin on February 07, 2026, 04:58:36 PM
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Not great.
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Only watched the 2nd half, poor.
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Utter turd of a performance. Lucky to get a point
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PWS, that's kind.
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Only saw the second half, but we were fucking abysmal.
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Atrocious second half. Played off the park by Bournemouth.
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5th is best we can do from here. I’d take it in a shot.
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Glad of the point. 6 wins from here gets us to 65
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Bailey. Fuck me he was shocking today.
Shit second half. And if you don’t score from 3 or 4 really good attacking positions in the first half, you always risk not winning games in the PL. Really pissed off with that. Yet again we miss the chance to put the other teams under a bit of pressure.
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Good result against decent opposition but we're missing our first-choice midfielders.
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Not good, take the point.
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Second half collapse.After an encouraging first. But we didn't lose.Which is what some were opining.
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Very much take a draw based on that performance. Win on Wednesday and we will be back on track.
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Considering three of our most important players are injured we just need to get through these few weeks
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An away point at Bournemouth isn’t that bad.
It more the fact we were shite.
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More points dropped, Man U and Chelsea both won, only hope is City beat Liverpool tomorrow otherwise it's been another car crash of a weekend.
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Flip side, Liverpool lost here 2 weeks ago.
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A fortunate point in the end.
That was quite a cameo from Bailey. Onana can stop wasting his time looking for houses in Madrid on Right Move.
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Garbage.
Watkins very poor.
Sancho did ok but so embarrassing when he bottles out of challenges.
What has happened to our Sharp passing...awful at times
The red filth will pass us this week and we cannot complain.
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A real poor second half no urgency at all
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An okay point. What will do for us is the home defeats to the likes of Everton and Brentford.
No evidence so far that the returnees have improved us.
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We’ve lost our mojo a bit of late, so in the round it’s a decent point. But we need to beat Brighton. Our structured play does struggle when Pau doesn’t play, but we’re going through a tricky patch generally.
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Bournemouth beat Liverpool the other week. It’s a great point in the end. Get a win next Wednesday and we will be back on track.
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Second half was weirdly crap.
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All season our midfield has been the best in the league, maybe Europe, but It’s going to be very hard to rally us without McGinn, Kamara and Tielemans, but we’ve got to keep trying.
That was tough and Martinez and our centre backs kept us in the game.
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Lucky point. Worryingly, we don’t look a top 4 team or anywhere near one. Bailey looks worse than before which is a difficult achievement.
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Digne's "defending" for their goal should see him docked 2 weeks wages
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Bournemouth beat Liverpool the other week. It’s a great point in the end. Get a win next Wednesday and we will be back on track.
That's the spirit! Was terrified Bournemouth would snatch it in injury time like they did against Liverpool!
Surely we can't lose 3 home league games in a row. Surely? Surely?
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Barely deserved a point woeful second half. Did Digne forget who he was playing for ?
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Bailey and Watkins were atrocious, to only give Abraham the last five minutes was a dreadful decision by the manager. I've played in Sunday League sides that would be screaming at each other for the defending for their goal, under 12 level at best. That was most certainly a point gained rather than 3 dropped.
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Physically out-muscled in the second half, they seemed to win every challenge and we kept giving away free-kicks whenever we did put a foot in.
Digne reverted to the soft as shite poser we bought from Everton four years ago, I thought we had beaten that out of him.
Badly missed McGinn. He would have won us free-kicks and stopped their momentum in the second half.
In isolation, not a bad point at a competitive team who are in good form.
Bournemouth played more football in the second half than Everton and Brentford did in four games against us this season, yet they only have a point to show for it.
Think our chances of winning the league are probably gone.
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Slim pickings for motm. Probably Onana, without him winning everthing in our box they very likely score from a corner or long throw.
Or Emi, but beaten at near post for the goal.
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Only watched the 2nd half
Sigh.
When will people learn?
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We look tired in the second half. Sancho and rogers were great in the first half. Ollie had a couple chances and on another day we would have been 2 up.
Bailey comically bad, and the midfield was overran in the last 30 mins.
Win the next 3 home games and all will be well again. Could be an important point.
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Poor performance. Relieved to get a point at the end.
Our injuries are killing us and this is reminiscent of two seasons ago.
Midfield was completely overrun and couldn’t get a grip. Without Kamara Onana is a Carlton Palmer figure. He has never really suited our style of play and without Kamara looks odd. Sticks a leg out occasionally and useful at set pieces.
Dougie was off the pace and we couldn’t retain possession. No craft or guile just breaks.
Probably worth giving Barkley a go. He can’t be worse.
mings and Martinez a little bit dodgy today. Digne weird for the goal.
Rogers peripheral.
Not certain whether their scorer meant his shot. Strange finish at near post which fooled Emi.
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I think we can safely say there’s no title coming to Villa this season so from now on we support C115 starting very much with tomorrow!
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Bournemouth beat Liverpool the other week. It’s a great point in the end. Get a win next Wednesday and we will be back on track.
That's the spirit! Was terrified Bournemouth would snatch it in injury time like they did against Liverpool!
Surely we can't lose 3 home league games in a row. Surely? Surely?
Hope not. And don't call me Shirley
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pretty meh
Awful goal to give away, Id prefer Lindelof in there too , watkins was on 80 mins too long , Bailey wouldnt get a game at Harrogate playing like that Id prefer JJA coming on instead of what I saw today , Buendia had one of those games and too many of them lately .
Emi kept us in it , Sancho is slowly getting better , most couldnt control the ball most the match , our goal was ace and the ref was bollocks.
We are missing players of course, but elite international players playing under Emery and for our club like ours should know how to control a ball.
very meh
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Glad for the point. Poor second half. That midfield without Kamara and Youri is just not doing enough. Bailey OMG that was bad. It just shows how fucked we were in Jan to sell Malen and bring him back. Surely Kaden Young would have been a better option. We just need to keep going and hope our winning form returns and that Chelsea and Man Utd start to falter.
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Okay result but dreadful in the second and not great in the first. Konsa and Martinez were superb, especially Ezra's clearance off the line. Bailey was just terrible. And of course the injuries are and excuse, daft to say otherwise.
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I'm afraid it's going to be a matter of damage limitation until McGinn and Tielemans are back.
Not a disastrous result today, by any means.
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Glad for the point. Poor second half. That midfield without Kamara and Youri is just not doing enough. Bailey OMG that was bad. It just shows how fucked we were in Jan to sell Malen and bring him back. Surely Kaden Young would have been a better option. We just need to keep going and hope our winning form returns and that Chelsea and Man Utd start to falter.
At least you can strut around Dorset without cruel jibes this weekend.
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Not a catastrophic result - Bournemouth are a decent side, but we were concerningly woeful. If we win Wednesday then it's been a broadly ok week. We'll presumably have to do it without Onana though, who I imagine will have picked up some form of a knock.
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Digne for the goal was just inexplicably terrible. Mings too, just watched their guy run at the goal and shoot. It was like when your controller briefly loses connection while you're playing FIFA.
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Not certain whether their scorer meant his shot. Strange finish at near post which fooled Emi.
He shanked it, wrong-footing Martínez but despite lil'Lee pointing it out, the commentator jizzed-on about how good it was.
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Second half was garbage. Mings and particularly Digne culpable for the goal. Our form is becoming a concern.
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We no longer look like a team. Very disjointed, only standouts were Rogers, Martinez and Sancho. Bailey is a terrible player, it’s obvious why we loaned him out and begrudgingly recalled him.
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Second half was garbage. Mings and particularly Digne culpable for the goal. Our form is becoming a concern.
I’d lay that blame firmly at Digne
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Digne for the goal was just inexplicably terrible. Mings too, just watched their guy run at the goal and shoot. It was like when your controller briefly loses connection while you're playing FIFA.
They both left it to each other. Shit happens, albeit this was explosive diarrhoea.
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Bloody hell - we’re going through a tough patch of form, heavily influenced by injuries, but also just generally. It happens and it will happen to the teams behind us. A point at Bournemouth is a decent result, especially as we’re struggling a bit. We’ll get into better form soon and we’re very much still well placed for Champions League.
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This Alysson cant be any worse than Bailey.
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We just have to tough out the next few weeks until we get most of our midfield back and firing.
A point at Bournemouth is a start, it is no easy place to visit.
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Not certain whether their scorer meant his shot. Strange finish at near post which fooled Emi.
He shanked it, wrong-footing Martínez but despite lil'Lee pointing it out, the commentator jizzed-on about how good it was.
Ah my commentary was German!
He sort of hit it with the outside of his foot but you never see a finish like that.
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... Bailey wouldnt get a game at Harrogate playing like that Id prefer JJA coming on instead ...
I'll let you know how he gets on at Whetherby Road.
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This Alysson cant be any worse than Bailey.
KYoung also potentially offers more.
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All season our midfield has been the best in the league, maybe Europe, but It’s going to be very hard to rally us without McGinn, Kamara and Tielemans, but we’ve got to keep trying.
That was tough and Martinez and our centre backs kept us in the game.
We needed Onana to step up but he was mainly going through the motions and Dougie faded. Neither fill the boots of McGinn, Kamara or Tielemans. At least Bogaarde has a spring in his step and is very tidy. Bournemouth had a free rein in the centre of the park and used the flanks well. Both Cash and Digne had a tough afternoon with little help.
We're useless up front and Unai needs to take his watch in for a service bringing on Tammy for Watkins on 85 minutes was a joke. Sancho had his best 45 minutes first half, actually looked like a player, Buendia links up so beautifully with Rogers but his booking meant he was always on borrowed time. Rogers must be so frustrated playing in a team where he's our only real goal threat apart from the three balls into the six yard box in the first half where Watkins was caught in the wrong position every time. His greatest talent seems to be failing him. The thought of getting a decent fee for him in the summer are fading with every game. I think we need to see him coming off the bench in future, playing against tired defenders, it may suit him more.
Obviously Anthony **** Taylor was his usual pathetic self, once again the level of physicality wouldn't have been allowed last season. Bournemouth got away with murder from the first minute but he didn't seem to mind. Any time we mixed it up he was reaching for his cards, the tosser.
Overall, decent first half but piss poor second and that's without mentioning Leon Bailey except to say I wish we'd kept Young instead of sending him out on loan.
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Decent away point. Performance sounds awful from the comments on here. The BBC were a bit more complimentary.
Managed to rotate a few players so hopefully there’s some freshness in the legs versus Brighton.
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We were always going to win that until they scored and I’m sorry but WTF was Digne doing?? As soon as they scored our game plan went out of the window. I imagine a certain manager won’t be happy
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This Alysson cant be any worse than Bailey.
KYoung also potentially offers more.
Ashley Young offers more.
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It felt like Bournemouth were the team with something on the game and we were the team in midtable obscurity
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This Alysson cant be any worse than Bailey.
KYoung also potentially offers more.
Ashley Young offers more.
Neil Young would offer more.
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Digne for the goal was just inexplicably terrible. Mings too, just watched their guy run at the goal and shoot. It was like when your controller briefly loses connection while you're playing FIFA.
Indeed, I couldn’t quite understand the comments on my stream praising Rayan for the goal. It was more a case of poor defending and it opening right up for him than any trickery on his part.
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Really shit. We've lost the midfield fluidity we had and we're too easy to out muscle and over power now. Our forms a big concern.
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Looking for some positives: we defended corners and the long throw ins very well. Martinez showing his best form their goal apart. Barkley is probably worth a start.
Negatives: too many to mention.
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This Alysson cant be any worse than Bailey.
KYoung also potentially offers more.
Ashley Young offers more.
Neil Young would offer more.
Jimmy Young would
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This Alysson cant be any worse than Bailey.
KYoung also potentially offers more.
and his dad Ashley :)
p.s I missed the earlier ash comment . Ill change it to Charlie Young .
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Decent away point that will look better in a few weeks' time, as Sunderland did. Hopefully it will prompt a similar improvement in results.
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Signed, Mings and Martinez all culpable for their goal. Signed should have just dealt with it, but then Mings doesn’t close-off the route to goal, and Martinez is beaten at his near post. We seem to concede a stupid goal in most games.
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Paul Young would be better than Bailey. Can't continue like this, Everything Must Change.
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Signed, Mings and Martinez all culpable for their goal. Signed should have just dealt with it, but then Mings doesn’t close-off the route to goal, and Martinez is beaten at his near post. We seem to concede a stupid goal in most games.
We signed Signed?
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Decent away point that will look better in a few weeks' time, as Sunderland did. Hopefully it will prompt a similar improvement in results.
Yup. We’re understandably going through a lull, our last two away results have been good. The last two home have been rubbish and that’s what we need to correct.
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This Alysson cant be any worse than Bailey.
KYoung also potentially offers more.
Ashley Young offers more.
Neil Young would offer more.
Jimmy Young would
Sean Young would have offered more.
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Paul Young would be better than Bailey. Can't continue like this, Everything Must Change.
In hindsight, we shouldn't have told him to come back and stay.
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Bailey back was panicky shit again in the market. He's so poor. Unless it was part of oiling the Abraham deal.
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A good away point against a decent team on form, that seems to have extricated itself from the slump it had been in of late.
As for us, we need to work through our midfield issues. The three players out were central to our structure, our way of playing. We need to rebuild that structure with our new look midfield. You can see that it's going to come (I felt, and we will be very good when it does), but we're not quite there yet.
Had to smile at Leon today - made Sancho look like a club bouncer.
Digne was poor for the goal (though there seemed to be a miscommunication somewhere - was he expecting Buendia to cover inside?) and though the number of crosses into our box might have justified his selection, I wasn't that impressed with Mings.
Martinez man of the match for me, though Rogers looks head and shoulders above everyone in all that he does.
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Positives - we got a point from a game we have all seen us lose in the past, Martinez’s saves, our goal, Sancho, Barkley.
Negatives - too many.
Take the point and move on.
UTV
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Sean Young would have offered more.
Like Villa, she was great in the early 80s.
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Take an away point. On to the next
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In isolation a point isn’t bad, but after failing to beat 10 man Brentford and with Chelsea and Man United both winning four in a row it’s really not good.
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Only watched the 2nd half, poor.
Only daw 1stvhalf when we were good
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We have some great players. We also have some shite.
The shite players can be carried when we are at full strength. Unfortunately, they can’t when are not.
Buendia - one moment of magic every 3 or games masks the sea of diarrhoea he serves up the rest of the time.
Bailey - a clear reminder of why we couldn’t wait to get rid of him.
Sancho - lately he has been slightly less shit than usual. Not a great appraisal of him.
Watkins - a great servant but is closing in on being finished at the top level. Slow to react to chances in the box, and its getting very tiring watching him in one on one situations when he is so easily dispossessed or knocked over.
We have a big squad, unfortunately there is too much fluff in it
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Today laid bare how we miss those three midfielders and any side would suffer. We were good first half but couldn't contain Bournemouth in the second so I was glad of the point. "fucking hell Bailey" made an unwelcome return where I was watching, Watkins was not much better. Subs were a bit mad, particularly when Maatsen was in midfield for a wild ten minutes that nearly cost us a goal and nearly got us one. I thought Tammy deserved longer.
A hard fought point overall and it looks like a poor run now given the last few results but when you have the injuries, luck and bollocks decisions we have had to put up with it's not all that surprising.
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Take an away point. On to the next
Away draws aren't always good results, especially when you lose at home to some right blose in consecutive games. Given the battering we got in the second half, it's a decent point. Take that away, it's a bit meh.
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This Alysson cant be any worse than Bailey.
KYoung also potentially offers more.
So would my pet goldfish Tiddles and its been dead since 1968
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Where we going to finish then?
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4th.
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Where we going to finish then?
There’s not been one single second this season when I wouldn’t have snapped your hand off for a 5th place finish
I still think we’ll get there 3/4/5 it doesn’t matter to me as long as it brings CL football
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Draw at Bournemouth not the worst result maybe.
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This Alysson cant be any worse than Bailey.
KYoung also potentially offers more.
Ashley Young offers more.
Neil Young would offer more.
Jimmy Young would
Sean Young would have offered more.
Carl Jung would have offered more and also analysed where the others were going wrong.
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Where we going to finish then?
There’s not been one single second this season when I wouldn’t have snapped your hand off for a 5th place finish
I still think we’ll get there 3/4/5 it doesn’t matter to me as long as it brings CL football
Going to require a huge effort to win the 6/7 games (minimum) we'll prob need to get over the line from here on in.
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Sean Young would have offered more.
Seán Óg (Ó hAilpín) would definitely improve us.
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We have some great players. We also have some shite.
The shite players can be carried when we are at full strength. Unfortunately, they can’t when are not.
Buendia - one moment of magic every 3 or games masks the sea of diarrhoea he serves up the rest of the time.
Bailey - a clear reminder of why we couldn’t wait to get rid of him.
Sancho - lately he has been slightly less shit than usual. Not a great appraisal of him.
Watkins - a great servant but is closing in on being finished at the top level. Slow to react to chances in the box, and its getting very tiring watching him in one on one situations when he is so easily dispossessed or knocked over.
We have a big squad, unfortunately there is too much fluff in it
Really harsh on Buendia. He gets the most shit for losing the ball when all of our players do it. I think it's some confirmation bias thing where folk see that he's small and physically inferior so he has to make up for it by always keeping possession.
His pressing game is completely over-looked, only Watkins compares and his little passes and flicks turn our possession into dangerous attacks. He's got highly-impressive shooting technique and his ability at free-kicks is proven.
He's saved us buying Harvey Elliott, meaning that £30m can go elsewhere next July. And he has increased his value by close to double compared to last summer if we were to sell him next summer and try replace him with someone younger.
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Feel for Emery, there's not much more he can do, Onana was walking all second half, Watkins is a shadow of former self and those that were happy to see Bailey back will be sorely disappointed.
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Digne and Mings do so badly for that goal.
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Digne and Mings do so badly for that goal.
Digne was pathetic. Mings should probably have been sharper to get across but that non effort from Digne was unacceptable.
Only saw the highlights, Martinez very fortunate to get away with those two parries
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This Alysson cant be any worse than Bailey.
KYoung also potentially offers more.
Ashley Young offers more.
Neil Young would offer more.
Jimmy Young would
Sean Young would have offered more.
Carl Jung would have offered more and also analysed where the others were going wrong.
Carson Yeung would have offered more and sold millions of shirts in his Villa shops all across China.
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Digne for the goal was just inexplicably terrible. Mings too, just watched their guy run at the goal and shoot. It was like when your controller briefly loses connection while you're playing FIFA.
I can't really comprehend what happened, it was that shit.
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Anybody care to explain to me what Digne thought his job was there?
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I'll take a point.
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I'll take a point.
How longs left Daz?
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Didn't see the game, anybody play well at all?
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Digne for the goal was just inexplicably terrible. Mings too, just watched their guy run at the goal and shoot. It was like when your controller briefly loses connection while you're playing FIFA.
I can't really comprehend what happened, it was that shit.
When your coaching kids not to switch off this is the video to show them.
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Anybody care to explain to me what Digne thought his job was there?
Because his starting position was so bad, ( he was no where near the winger when he recieved the ball and made no attempt to get there), it was then too late to engage, it just took a bit of acceleration and he was in on goal.
It was the most passive piece of defending I can recall.
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A good point normally but not in the context of the last couple of weeks or in the current league table. Unai will continue to manage our expectations that we're punching so it will always feel good when we do.
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Regarding our midfield being over-run, I think there is some mitigation in that it was the first time Onana and Luiz have ever played together and neither of them are fully fit.
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One win in six is it now? I was feeling positive earlier.
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One win in six is it now? I was feeling positive earlier.
Yeah it’s a difficult run, did you expect we’d just cruise through to the end of the season? Especially with the injuries. Every other side has had tricky runs of results, and they will again.
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I hope so. I’ll be happy with fifth.
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Completely outplayed by Bournemouth once they scored. Lucky to get a point. Probably Sancho’s best game so fair play to him.
A word for the referee; abysmal. And then look at Chelsea’s second penalty with a push on their player and then the same thing on Buendia first half but because it’s Villa and Taylor; nothing. This is what we’re also up against on top of everything else.
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Poor performance today.
Bournemouth were just more lively than we were.
That's the sort of game we could have done with McGinn, Tielemans and Kamara.
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Terrible performance, but we got the point, personally I thought it was always a reality we would lose this, we didn't, even with McGinn, Tielemans and Kamara this end of the season would start to get very difficult, I always thought months ago that the best we could do is try to hang on to top 4, we've lost our midfield, over night, we have replaced them with Luiz and Onana, the latter being in a perpetual state of injury, they will never do the job of the aforementioned 3.
We got the point, I think we win the midweek game and we are back in the race despite this blip, we've got the wolves at the door, the whole world of football want Man Utd back in there, Liverpool will be and then of course Chelsea, we can't lose anymore games.
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I think we need to bring an extra body in midfield for the following games, the gulf in class between having McGinn, Tielemans and Kamara compared to Onana and Dougie was there for all to see. I'd probably bring in Bogaarde as at least he has the legs and knows how to keep it tidy.
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I think gap in class might be fair, but it’s a bit early to say gulf given Doug and Onana have never played together.
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I think we need to bring an extra body in midfield for the following games, the gulf in class between having McGinn, Tielemans and Kamara compared to Onana and Dougie was there for all to see. I'd probably bring in Bogaarde as at least he has the legs and knows how to keep it tidy.
Agreed - might be worth us dropping Sancho or Buendia and putting Barkley in the middle, or Bogarde.
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Barkley
Onana
Luiz
Rogers
Watkins
Sancho
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I think we need to bring an extra body in midfield for the following games, the gulf in class between having McGinn, Tielemans and Kamara compared to Onana and Dougie was there for all to see. I'd probably bring in Bogaarde as at least he has the legs and knows how to keep it tidy.
The problem we have is Luiz and Onana (mainly because of his physicality) are for me squad strengtheners, the bench squad you bring on to give Mcginn, Kamara and Jouri a rest in the 70th minute, we are now depending on them to hold up the team in a vital area. Same with Tammy, anybody who thinks Tammy is going to be some sort of goal machine just isn't reality, however, we live in hopes.
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I think we need to bring an extra body in midfield for the following games, the gulf in class between having McGinn, Tielemans and Kamara compared to Onana and Dougie was there for all to see. I'd probably bring in Bogaarde as at least he has the legs and knows how to keep it tidy.
Agreed - might be worth us dropping Sancho or Buendia and putting Barkley in the middle, or Bogarde.
I agree, especially if we sit Onana and Bogarde pushing Dougie forward.
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I do wonder if the box midfield if Onana, Dougie, Barkley and Sancho behind Rogers and Watkins/Tammy might be tried. Barkley was a six at Luton. Unai sees him as an 8 or 10.
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Just saw the goal again. Absolutely bizarre from Digne.
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Just seen the goal for the first time. That is as poor a piece of "defending" that you wll ever see from Digne...pathetic. He just moved aside and let him run through unmolested.
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What happened in the first minute? The main camera wasn’t up with play and they didn’t show anything from another angle (on my feed anyway). I got the impression Olly Watkins was through and brought down.
Regardless, Watkins is painful to watch now.
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As normal teams like Bournemouth and Brentford will chase after the ball, while we intend to take a little jaunt around the pitch, one instance was when Watkins was running towards their goal with about 4 players after him on his own, while our lot took there time, which ended up him going to the corner flag without any support and fouling a Bournemouth player.we need to change the mindset that playing nice one two's don't always win you games
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Didn't see the game earlier and waited for MOTD to see the goals. Digne's effort to defend their goal was disgraceful.and Buendia's not much better. It was almost like they had stopped as the whistle had been blown.
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We started brightly enough and had chances to go two up but they dominated the second half and the question is why. We played like a tired side,Martinez long kick outs just went to their players and late in the game the times we gave the ball to them were numerous. I hope we hold out for the top five because miss out and Rogers will be off.
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Overly simplistic but thought we were decent first half, not so much second. Bournemouth are a good side, particularly at their place.
We’ve had essentially the whole midfield wiped out in the space of a few weeks, it’s going to take a little time to adjust. We just need to get through this month intact - the next two home (league) games are absolutely pivotal.
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Just saw the goal again. Absolutely bizarre from Digne.
I thought that initially… bizarre how easy it was. But then one of the replays showed Digne having a go at Buendia, and it seemed like the plan was Digne would take the outside while Buendia covered the cut back inside, which he didn’t.
Maybe I’m being too generous, but I can’t fathom why Digne would just watch him go past like that otherwise.
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The commentator mentioned yesterday that the last 7 times Bournemouth had played at home to a team in the top three, Bournemouth had won five. That made me feel a bit better but our second half performance was still abysmal. We were very lucky to get a point.
Solid performances from defence. Bournemouth are fifth highest scorers in league. Their one goal a shambles though.
As we all know, midfield currently our massive problem. Onana put in a great shift but alas Dougie is not match fit. Intelligent on the ball but currently not up to the fitness required for a team challenging for the top four.
Game was very open which is Bournemouth's preferred way. This season their matches have seen the most goals scored. For this reason Rogers, Buendia and Sancho were too easy to play through.
Sorry but Ollie is playing like he has aged 10 years in the last year. He barely won a challenge, has lost half a yard in pace and looks unlikely to score or hold the ball up. He needs a good rest. Tammy to start next matches.
Grateful we got a point but does not bode well until Tielemans and McGinn return this season. :(
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Digne's defending for their goal was probably the worst defending I have ever seen. I've seen some people mention match fixing, and in all honesty that defending was so bad you have to wonder if they have a point?
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Sorry but Ollie is playing like he has aged 10 years in the last year. He barely won a challenge, has lost half a yard in pace and looks unlikely to score or hold the ball up. He needs a good rest. Tammy to start next matches.
Grateful we got a point but does not bode well until Tielemans and McGinn return this season. :(
Didn't think Ollie was that poor, personally (not like in October-November), and think we can improve before the returnees get back - especially if, as you point out, Dougie hones his fitness.
Otherwise, think your summary is spot on.
Just wanted to add that in the 10 minutes after half time, Onana completely ran the show. But we could not keep it up.
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Digne's defending for their goal was probably the worst defending I have ever seen. I've seen some people mention match fixing, and in all honesty that defending was so bad you have to wonder if they have a point?
They're the type that phone into Talksport and talk shite.
There was a mix-up in Buendia and Digne both thinking each other had it covered, and Mings and Martínez were left reacting slowly too.
If you reckon Lucas has gone rogue/Ivan Toney on this, maybe a quiet word with a Constable on the front desk at whicever Brum cop shop hasn't yet shut down, could yield an interesting conversation. Careful that you don't get done for wasting police time, though.
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Bournemouth not a easy place to go - but man that second half was pretty bad. We were kucky to escape witha point. Martinez was exceptional without him we would have lost that easy.
1 point against Everton brentford and Bournemouth is pretty poor tbh
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Bournemouth not a easy place to go - but man that second half was pretty bad. We were kucky to escape witha point. Martinez was exceptional without him we would have lost that easy.
1 point against Everton brentford and Bournemouth is pretty poor tbh
Bit unfortunate to only get one point from those three games though. Struggling to break well organised defences down. Can't keep relying on Rogers.
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Digne's defending for their goal was probably the worst defending I have ever seen. I've seen some people mention match fixing, and in all honesty that defending was so bad you have to wonder if they have a point?
That's one helluva accusation to level at a player.
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It was utter and complete shit defending though wasn't it? I think we can agree on that?
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It was utter and complete shit defending though wasn't it? I think we can agree on that?
It was horrendous but out of character to be fair. Blaming others made him look even more ridiculous.
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Agree
Along with Emi who dd not chase back and no charge down from Mings, crap all around.
On the other hand they had many other efforts that were well defended.
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How did Mings do yesterday?
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Digne's defending for their goal was probably the worst defending I have ever seen. I've seen some people mention match fixing, and in all honesty that defending was so bad you have to wonder if they have a point?
Awful connection you have made there Rico. And by the way where were you when we had Richards and Lescott in the team?
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Just saw footage of the handball incident. It's 100% a penalty and the referee is looking straight at it. There's no need for var. He either needs to go to Specsavers or explain why he didn't give us a penalty. It's so blatant.
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Digne's defending for their goal was probably the worst defending I have ever seen. I've seen some people mention match fixing, and in all honesty that defending was so bad you have to wonder if they have a point?
Awful connection you have made there Rico. And by the way where were you when we had Richards and Lescott in the team?
I've been going to the Villa since 1977 if that answers your question
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Bournemouth not a easy place to go - but man that second half was pretty bad. We were kucky to escape witha point. Martinez was exceptional without him we would have lost that easy.
1 point against Everton brentford and Bournemouth is pretty poor tbh
Bit unfortunate to only get one point from those three games though. Struggling to break well organised defences down. Can't keep relying on Rogers.
I agree we rely too heavily on rogers. The likes of sancho dougie and bailey need to help in the creativity department
Buendia has been disappointing in last few games as well
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Bournemouth not a easy place to go - but man that second half was pretty bad. We were kucky to escape witha point. Martinez was exceptional without him we would have lost that easy.
1 point against Everton brentford and Bournemouth is pretty poor tbh
Bit unfortunate to only get one point from those three games though. Struggling to break well organised defences down. Can't keep relying on Rogers.
I agree we rely too heavily on rogers. The likes of sancho dougie and bailey need to help in the creativity department
Buendia has been disappointing in last few games as well
Id be tempted to get Barkley in on wednesday with Tammy , Sancho and Rogers . .
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Bournemouth not a easy place to go - but man that second half was pretty bad. We were kucky to escape witha point. Martinez was exceptional without him we would have lost that easy.
1 point against Everton brentford and Bournemouth is pretty poor tbh
Bit unfortunate to only get one point from those three games though. Struggling to break well organised defences down. Can't keep relying on Rogers.
I agree we rely too heavily on rogers. The likes of sancho dougie and bailey need to help in the creativity department
Buendia has been disappointing in last few games as well
He scored a belter in our last away game, where we won.
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And personally, I though the barge on him yesterday was a peno. The ball was miles away.
On a side note, am I mistaken in saying we've had not league penos so far this season?
We usually average 3 or 4 I think, and got 6 last season.
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You're correct.
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At least we've got a specialist in Dougie back to slot home the overdue ones we get this Spring.
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It was utter and complete shit defending though wasn't it? I think we can agree on that?
It was horrendous but out of character to be fair. Blaming others made him look even more ridiculous.
It’s not like Digne at all to have let the player through like that. It has to be some kind of confusion in terms of positioning when the player cut inside that a CB moves across into that space. Otherwise he’s making a tackle in or around the penalty area on his weaker side risking a free kick or penalty. It obviously looks really bad but he’s a top pro. He either made a genuine mistake or something didn’t quite go to plan in the defensive set up and assignment.
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most fouled team yet no pens .
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At least we've got a specialist in Dougie back to slot home the overdue ones we get this Spring.
That's just given me the Olympiakos cold sweats over again.
Was so pissed off with Dougie that night!
To be fair, he's a decent peno taker - though not a specialist, I don't think. He doesn't have the coldness of a killer.
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Digne's defending for their goal was probably the worst defending I have ever seen. I've seen some people mention match fixing, and in all honesty that defending was so bad you have to wonder if they have a point?
Awful connection you have made there Rico. And by the way where were you when we had Richards and Lescott in the team?
I've been going to the Villa since 1977 if that answers your question
Pffft Johny come lately
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Bournemouth not a easy place to go - but man that second half was pretty bad. We were kucky to escape witha point. Martinez was exceptional without him we would have lost that easy.
1 point against Everton brentford and Bournemouth is pretty poor tbh
Bit unfortunate to only get one point from those three games though. Struggling to break well organised defences down. Can't keep relying on Rogers.
I agree we rely too heavily on rogers. The likes of sancho dougie and bailey need to help in the creativity department
Buendia has been disappointing in last few games as well
He scored a belter in our last away game, where we won.
Agreed, wouldn't be criticising Buendia too much. He's had a great season so far. Need likes of Sancho, Luiz, Bailey, Tammy to step up and quickly.
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Digne's defending for their goal was probably the worst defending I have ever seen. I've seen some people mention match fixing, and in all honesty that defending was so bad you have to wonder if they have a point?
Awful connection you have made there Rico. And by the way where were you when we had Richards and Lescott in the team?
I've been going to the Villa since 1977 if that answers your question
No it does not as I didn't question your Villa fan longevity, my point is you have surely seen enough to know what you said (worst defending ever seen) is probably not correct.
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Digne's defending for their goal was probably the worst defending I have ever seen. I've seen some people mention match fixing, and in all honesty that defending was so bad you have to wonder if they have a point?
Awful connection you have made there Rico. And by the way where were you when we had Richards and Lescott in the team?
I've been going to the Villa since 1977 if that answers your question
No it does not as I didn't question your Villa fan longevity, my point is you have surely seen enough to know what you said (worst defending ever seen) is probably not correct.
As a moment of defending it was bizarre from a very consistent player
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Digne's defending for their goal was probably the worst defending I have ever seen. I've seen some people mention match fixing, and in all honesty that defending was so bad you have to wonder if they have a point?
Awful connection you have made there Rico. And by the way where were you when we had Richards and Lescott in the team?
I've been going to the Villa since 1977 if that answers your question
No it does not as I didn't question your Villa fan longevity, my point is you have surely seen enough to know what you said (worst defending ever seen) is probably not correct.
As a moment of defending it was bizarre from a very consistent player
It was up there in terms of totally inept defending by a Villa player.
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Bournemouth not a easy place to go - but man that second half was pretty bad. We were kucky to escape witha point. Martinez was exceptional without him we would have lost that easy.
1 point against Everton brentford and Bournemouth is pretty poor tbh
Bit unfortunate to only get one point from those three games though. Struggling to break well organised defences down. Can't keep relying on Rogers.
I agree we rely too heavily on rogers. The likes of sancho dougie and bailey need to help in the creativity department
Buendia has been disappointing in last few games as well
He scored a belter in our last away game, where we won.
Still think his game is massively lacking in the creative area
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You want the moon on a stick.
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You want the moon on a stick.
Might as well bring Tony Moon back if we’re getting the band together again.
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Managed to catch most of the game whilst sat outside a bar in Verona (which was nice). Really well taken goal by Rogers but the defending for their goal was unbelievably poor and that's being kind. Not sure what Digne was playing at but letting a player run from nearly the half way line to score was just awful all round. Just glad it didn't go on to cost us the game.
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Unlike Clampy I was at home in a wet and miserable West Yorkshire! The defending was still crap.
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Defending looks different in Verona to Wetherby.