Fulham v Aston Villa Match Thread

[Goldie.7]

all my keys are packing up on laptop by the way ;(

use on-screen keyboard like me

[berneboy]

not to worry, at home to mid-table opposition next weekend

... without Delph.

[PeterWithesShin]

Let's hope for one of our completely different second half performances.

[Stu]

Fulham are way more organised in both attack and defence. A nothing showing from Villa; two down, no ideas going forward, totally out-foxed in defence time and again (although we have our central defenders out tbf) and Delph out for the United game. What a load of shit.

[Tuscans]

If we had a 100 million (as if) to spend in the summer I would honestly replace every defender we have and Westwood and KEA.

I would buy 2 wide men of real quality, a number 10 and a holding midfielder

I'm building from the back....the Hansen way.

[Monty]

If we had a 100 million (as if) to spend in the summer I would honestly replace every defender we have and Westwood and KEA.

I would buy 2 wide men of real quality, a number 10 and a holding midfielder

I'm building from the back....the Hansen way.

And, incidentally, the McLeish way.

[curiousorange]

Karagounis is knocking on 37. Villa have to foul him to get near him. I often wonder if Lambert even watches football outside of match days.

[supertom]

Every time we get the ball, we are surrounded by Fulham players, hasselling and nipping at us, putting us under pressure.
When they get the ball, we stand off, stand back and let them play.
Westwood, and Kea, totally, utterly ineffective midfielders.
Tidy footballers, but ineffective midfielders.

They're not even that tidy at the moment. KEA is one of the poorest midfielders we've had. Westwood is Championship standard at best.
Westwood keeps playing Hollywoods. He's fast becoming the new Bannan. When he's not doing that he's pointing at which players the person on the ball should be passing too, but not showing any movement to receive the ball himself. He's hiding again. In fact he's been pretty fucking cowardly this season. Quite why I don't know because he looked quite assured from Feb- May.

[pauliewalnuts]

Fulham are way more organised in both attack and defence. A nothing showing from Villa; two down, no ideas going forward, totally out-foxed in defence time and again (although we have our central defenders out tbf) and Delph out for the United game. What a load of shit.

I also worry that this whole "counter attacking football" thing has sunk into their minds now, it's pretty fucking unimpressive watching a team fail to string more than two passes together, have no idea whatsoever when it comes to creativity, and to just lump it forward far too readily.

[Jockey Randall]

Not a lot in the game in general play for me. We've looked capable of scoring but dodgy defensively without Vlaar. Fulham have played well but have had things go their way. We completely gifted them that 1st goal but I can see why the pen was given. We're not half as bad as some of the doom merchants on here make out though.

[Dave Clark Five]

Most of this team just aren't good enough and never will be.  Every game is a major bloody struggle it's depressing watching this lot.

Its as bad as the late 80s except the beer down here now is far, far better.

[ez]

Oh well, we're due a defeat

[Matt Collins]

Goals change games. This performance isn't very good, but then we haven't played well very often this season in my view. But if we don't give away two soft goals, and stick one of our reasonable chances away, the perspective looks very different.

I find it frustrating that if anyone criticises a performance where we win (eg Southampton) they're accused of being negative.

The things to criticise today are the defending for both goals - from the same player each time. And that we've shown up again our deficiencies in passing in movement. But we've passed it better than we did v Southampton and we've created more chances than we did in the first half of that game (ie more than one).

[JUAN PABLO]

dodgy pen that

dont excuse our shitness

but very poor

[CJ]

Just saw the pen decision yet again but from a different angle - if anything it should have been a free kick to us