Fulham v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[barrysleftfoot]

   A lot more positives today than negatives.

  When we got the ball, we looked a very good passing team, a bit naive sometimes, but played some lovely football.

  I must say, until the last minute, Dunne and Collins were back to their best, Bannan looks a lovely footballer, what a pass for the goal by the way.And i must hold my hands up about Clark, he has a lovely 1st touch, and always looks for a pass, looks a very good prospect.

  Delfunso is 19, so i will give him the benefit of the doubt, but he should have had a hat trick today.

[D.boy]

At this moment we are lucky the league is so close this season and a couple of wins will move you up to the top 5.

[KRS]

Another game where we pay the price for missed chances...or not having a fit proven goalscorer at the club. January cant come soon enough to fix this problem, so I hope GH has some plans to bring someone in.

5th bottom now.

We're 13th...not that it really matters. The only positive I can take from the result is theres only 3pts between 5th and 16th place (cant see Newcastle, Liverpool or Baggies gettin 3pts tomorrow).

[Holtenderinthesky]

Always said that Gérard Houllier was the wrong man for Villa he should resign 30% win percentage just isn't good enough! Should of had Kevin Mac!

That's the kind of logic that will make Sarah Palin president of America.

Agreed.  We may well go down under GH but we were certainly going down under KM.  I hope I'm wrong but I cannot see us getting 40 points to stay up this season.  Delfouneso is fuckin useless and if he is our hope up front then we might as well give up.

[Goldie.7]

Ash is not the villain i blame the defence for not holding out, why didn't Cuellar come on in stoppage time?

GH must of realised this when we kept missing easy chances it's time to sure up the win.

[KRS]

Always said that Gérard Houllier was the wrong man for Villa he should resign 30% win percentage just isn't good enough! Should of had Kevin Mac!

Shut up

[brontebilly]

We will hockey some team soon.

Friedel 7
Young 6
Dunne 8
Collins 6
Warnock 6
Albrighton 8
Bannan 7
Reo Coker 6, Clark 8
Downing 6
Young 4
Fonz 5

Ireland also showed some lovely touches and a decent workrate. Looking back I suppose we didnt play it on the floor as much as we should in the second half. One shitty offside trap apart, Fulham created zilch. I thought we were resolute until Albrighton's brain fart. But the Fonz missed 3 glorious chances, his heart wasnt in the last one. Young's header was a decent effort but he should have nailed the one after. Downing at the start and Albrighton aswell. 5 or 6 great chances missed isnt good enough. Fulham are shocking too. Dunne made an absolute fool out of Dembele. Dont know how he lasted the 94 mins.

[pauliewalnuts]

Isn't it a bit daft to be talking of going down? Or not getting 40 points?

Yes, we have to start scoring goals. Yes, we need to buy a striker in January. No, not getting the points our play deserve isn't good.

Had we hung on 10 more seconds today, we'd have been one of a clutch of teams in joint fifth place.

Somewhat premature to be talking of relegation.

[Dante Lavelli]

I would have taken a nervy 3 points. The big thing is what GH already knows. Yes, we have a problem up front, but the midfield players, namely Ash today, are not smart. They don't take advantage of opportunities. He had numerous chances today to make something happen, and for our "best" player, it isn't good enough. Maybe he isn't cut out to be the focal point of this team, because you cannot rely on him to be somthing we build around.

I completely agree with this.  Ash, for all his good points, is more of a "cherry on top" player rather than the guy you build your team around.

[Jimbo]

The MOST predictable thing in football. I should have put my life's fucking savings and anything else I could beg, borrow and pilfer on that happening. Just complete shit.

[Blackcountry Villa]

Ashley Young is shit.

[Karl Bridges]

Played well, passed the ball well,  Bazza was great.  Shame about the last minute goal.   I think the kids will do very well for us this season.  The Fonz will come good.

Fonz.  It's early and I don't want to be too harsh but he had a couple of chances today that a 'natural' goal scorer would've buried.  He doesn't appear to have any positional awareness or anything outstanding to his game.  Maybe that's why it takes every single other one of our players for him to get a game.

He's 19 though so what I said will come across as being a bit nasty.  I hope I'm wrong.

No positional awareness yet he was on the end of the chances you are talking about. Yeah right.

[PaulWinch again]

Right now I've calmed down, on the plus side our goal was brilliant and Ireland was sharp when he came on. However we have got to start taking our chances and stop conceding late goals.

[Disco01]

Disapointing, but when you do not put you chances away that is what happens.

Thought Bannan, Albrighton, Clarke and Dunne all played very well today. A Young didn't have the best of games but when you look at the lack of options around him whenever he had the ball it was a tough game for him.

A real kick in the teeth but it is how we bounce back on Wednesday night that will show the character of this team.
Big respect to the Villa fans today they sang loud and proud. 

[Dante Lavelli]

Clark looked very good again.  Does anyone know how much football he has played in CM?
Can we consider him a genuine midfielder?