Aston Villa v Fulham Post-Match Thread

[Toronto Villa]

Not that we will, but on balance we deserve to go down. Every time we've had a chance to put some daylight between us and the arse end of the table we have bottled it. Bent will get us a few wins, three teams will be shitter than us and we'll be safe till next season, but it won't feel very good.

Crikey, we didn't lose by 5 did we? It's disappointing, but there's no way on earth we're getting relegated.

[johncvilla88]

Benjamin Siegrist for the next game?

[Ian.]

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

Don't be daft!

The bottom 3 at the end of the season deserve to go down, whoever they will be?

[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.

for the 1st 45 as he was at wigan

then he disappears

Disagree he didn't disappear he continued to pass pretty much faultlessly.

[placeforparks]

let's hope west ham and blues draw tomorrow.

[damon loves JT]

I would love, just once in a while, a routine 2-0 win.

[Toronto Villa]

I'm looking forward to seeing what Bradley can do. He likes to muck in, so it will help us defensively as much as he'll help up front. We need him to get up to speed as soon as possible.

[Toronto Villa]

I would love, just once in a while, a routine 2-0 win.

That's not very Aston Villa is it?

[ez]

Really frustrating. We take the lead twice and don't win. We can't afford to sit back when we're winning, the defence can't cope with it.

[bob]

Richard, please, stop putting ''....'' at the end of all of your posts! I enjoy reading them but there's no need to try and give them extra gravitas!

I like to finish the last line raising an eyebrow, slowly raising my pinky toward my mouth and grunting DUM DUM DUUUUUUUM.

[johncvilla88]

Guzan's been great for hull in the last few game's excluding the penalty he gave away in the last game

[villa for life]

useful point today. I'm happy with any return whilst Houllier is manager...another point nearer safety.

[damon loves JT]

I would love, just once in a while, a routine 2-0 win.

That's not very Aston Villa is it?

It's the football equivalent of coming home from work and finding your dinner on the table, and your socks all washed and paired and put away.

It never happens so it becomes the Holy Grail

[bob]

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

Disagree he didn't disappear he continued to pass pretty much faultlessly.

He gave the ball away a lot in the last twenty minutes.

[sfx412]

We never looked like winning, Fulham were always the better side on the ball and going forward, if anything we were lucky to come away with a point.
Sorry Houllier I see no point in a system that completely nullifies our 3 strikers. Why not play Bent on his own and replace Young and Gabby with midfield players like Bannan and Coker at least they would contribute to the game.
Awful tactics, and a waste of 2 points.
Friedel was abysmal apart from one save but the midfield was over run because Petrov and Makoun were often outnumbered.
Makoun, despite his one touch football, doesn't cover players he covers spaces and he gives the ball away at the wrong time. Still looks impressive, as did Petrov until he tired, but there was always one or two extra players in white.
They score 2 well engineered goals we scored 2 lucky ones, albeit a nice shot from Walker that 9/10 times would have gone wide.
You don't win matches if you don't give your strikers chances and today we didn't get enough balls into the danger area and created little else. Downing ran and ran but then ran out of ideas and then what happens we pass the ball back to Friedel and he kicks it up for it to come back, where is the player to hold the ball, to create the killing pass. Why are Bent and Gabby not played as twin strikers, as it stood neither contributed.

We need to pick up 3 points at home to survive, those tactics won't achieve them.