Fulham v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[nigel]

guzan 6 - commanding enough but a modern goalkeeper needs to be able to kick the ball. he is shocking with the ball at his feet

 
It has been a criticism of our keepers, of previous seasons, by hoofing the ball up field with us losing possession.
Guzan , prefers to play the short ball or throw to one of our players so we keep possession. Which seems to be the preferred choice of the modern keeper.
When the ball is passed back to him the defenders must make themselves available for a pass.

[tarzansbrother]

Just type shyte brontebilly. Oh and Paul winch you have shit in your eyes.
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Wind it in a bit please.

Sorry, but let's get some realism  our owner want to sell, we are shit,we still have overpaid players and our novice manager is sinking.  Let's play Ireland/Bentjust sums us up

[themossman]

Who would take settle for finishing  guaranteed 17th this season ?

We should have that on the club crest, in latin.

[eastie]

Midfield creativity is still woeful, defence weren't too bad but we create little and bent without service is useless, he is a finisher and nothing else.

Gabby has gone 27 premier games without a goal, give Weimann a chance , very worrying time with tough games ahead.

Lambert is not the problem, Lerner is the problem!

[claret and blue blood]

took the dogs a walk not having the bottle to listen to the match and took the one hit pill of listening to sports report on radio 5 to get the rsult only to hear "Aston Villa's miserable away form continues as they lose at Fulham"-sums it up really , and yes I am miserable as I type this !

[rutski]

after a defeat we dont half have some donuts on here who we never hear of from one week to the next!

[django]

I agree with the poster above that Weimann and Herd are unfortunate not to have been more involved. With Weimann in particular, he doesn't appear to have the threat of our other strikers on paper, he's not quick like Gabby, Big like Benteke or 'clinical' like Bent. But he's been on the pitch when we've picked up most of our meagre points tally in the last two seasons and I think it's down to his movement.

[PeterWithe]

Hold firm, we'll be OK

[Gareth]

Lets hope the head of scouting we got in summer is going to find us 2 or 3 in January.

We need a midfielder who can create something, Ireland's 4/5 good games in 2 years is nowhere near good enough.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Back from the game, waiting to drown my sorrows in a curry at Monty's on the Fulham Road.

The defence were fine, more or less, and Baker immense. Guzan was very good too.

Ireland was constantly trying to find space and receive the ball. When he got it, things got tricky as no other bugger was making runs or finding space.

We play far too narrow - their wide players could have eaten dinner and brushed their teeth while our cover got out to them.

When Baker was injured and Lambert called them over, they played much more quickly for a short while, and Ireland was trying to prompt them all to be quicker getting the ball to each other.

Too many in that midfield are neat, hard-working players, but the way they're set up there are so few options for them in terms of playing the ball forward.

Guzan punting it to Bent in the hope that Sod's Law would kick in and he'd flick it on to Gabby was fairly tiresome.

Gabby tried hard and had his moments.

[tarzansbrother]

after a defeat we dont half have some donuts on here who we never hear of from one week to the next!

Wind it in a bit please

[django]

Hold firm, we'll be OK

I think we will be as well, I don't think it will be the relaxing lower mid table anonymity that I was hoping for though.

[paulcomben]

We need a shake up in the team and the pattern. May as well play Given and Dunne ahead of Guzan and Clark to compensate for the otherwise huge inexperience. Gabby on left wing and Albrighton on right. Benteke with either Bent or probably better with Weimann up top. KEA and Holman centre mid. Ireland and Nzog as lazy subs. Get down the wings, get crosses in.

[claret and blue blood]

Midfield is the problem as previous posters have already said we really miss Stan's presence in there.

[preston28]

Still work in progress. No need to panic (yet). We'll get it together after Christmas and put in a good run and be safe!