Aston Villa 2-1 Fulham Post match thread

[Chris Smith]

One final point. I was in the North Stand for the first time in ages ( great to see Aftab again) and the Holte seemed very quiet.

It was. A very subdued atmosphere all round I thought, I sit in the Lower Holte and didn’t hear anything from either the North Stand or away fans either.

[SoccerHQ]

The acoustics at VP have never been great. It's just a stadium where the noise from any part of the crowd just dosen't carry well.

[brian green]

Because I was not there (no transport).  I account for 44.3% of the noise from the Holte Lower and 77.6% of the swearing.

South Cambridgeshire was noiser than usual though.

[tomd2103]

Onamah allowed Whelan to have his best game for us. Whelan was being asked to do too much and Onamah in a 4-5-1 allows Whelan to be the clean up man as opposed to creator and clean up which he just doesn’t have the legs for.

Him and Hourihane played with Onomah more advanced really.  Whelan did get caught out a couple of times, including when he gave away the free kick for their goal.  I think he would be fine in a genuine holding role with two players in front of him, but if we continue with the system we played yesterday then I wonder if Onomah and Hourihane might be better together with Grealish. O'Hare or maybe even Snodgrass in front of them.

[Ads]

I'd said mid week that I thought Onomah and Hourihane were our best two centrally and that we need Onomah's pace in particular.

Both were excellent and we really should have had a few more. Excellent save from Johnstone, although Hutton wanted shooting for drifting so high up and failing to commit with a challenge.

We pressed well, played at a tempo and forced errors as well as created plenty of chances.

We look very strong at home.

Very pleased.

[Matt Collins]

Need to be winning matches like that by more than 1 goal.

Is it four points if we win by more than one?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

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[darren woolley]

Happy with the win a good day out I also thought we played well Albert on top form again.

[cdbearsfan]

Happy with the win, not so happy about that poor squirrel by the Holte End.

[Pat McMahon]

One final point. I was in the North Stand for the first time in ages ( great to see Aftab again) and the Holte seemed very quiet.

It was. A very subdued atmosphere all round I thought, I sit in the Lower Holte and didn’t hear anything from either the North Stand or away fans either.

Fulham support was decent in the first half. The North stand lower was occasionally noisy, more so in the 2nd half.

Agree re not hearing away fans from the Holte. I usually sit upstairs and rarely hear them or the Villa fans next to them. It's like watching tv
with the sound tuned off.

[Legion]

Happy with the win, not so happy about that poor squirrel by the Holte End.

I didn't know Hogan was playing.

[JUAN PABLO]

I thought Snodgrass was useful today. And it was Conor that should have shot, not Snodgrass. Can see us doing Blues quite easily if we hunt the ball down like that again. It's been ages since we've gone hunting in packs.

Yeah I agree. Hourihane could have even put Snodgrass in as another option rather than the pass to Kodija.

thats the one I meant .. should have played snodgrass in then .

[Comrade Blitz]

Need to be winning matches like that by more than 1 goal.

Is it four points if we win by more than one?

No smart arse, but teams that get promoted and stay successful tend to win matches by more than a one goal margin.

[VillaAlways]

Need to be winning matches like that by more than 1 goal.

Is it four points if we win by more than one?

No smart arse, but teams that get promoted and stay successful tend to win matches by more than a one goal margin.

So its unacceptable to win a game 2-1 against a very good Fulham side.it was an excellent result no two ways about it

[Clampy]

Need to be winning matches like that by more than 1 goal.

Is it four points if we win by more than one?

No smart arse, but teams that get promoted and stay successful tend to win matches by more than a one goal margin.

So it won't be good enough if we win every game from now on by a one goal margin?