Crystal Palace v Aston Villa post match thread

[PeterWithe]

Appalling refereeing, if we have to suffer VAR why can’t these decisions not be looked at again?

That said we were second best and showed ambition only in very small passages of play. We again looked poorly matched physically and their movement off the ball was far superior to ours.

Plenty to do.

[SoccerHQ]

This is the 'dive' https://twitter.com/mattlyynch/status/1167829354514132992

Jack is running at full speed, gets nudge from Kouyate or whoever and starts losing his balance. Still manages to play perfectly waited pass to Lansbury before he falls and Cahill seemingly wipes him out anyway.

Surely if he's playing the pass he's not in the mindset of looking for the penalty and diving?

Ridiculous to rule that out. It was a really good finish from Lansbury aswell so frustrating for him as that could've got his Villa career finally going.

[hilts_coolerking]

There's undoubtedly contact, so it's a nailed on pen.  It has to be said Jack made the most of the contact.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

You can make all the excuses you want about Spurs and Bournemouth and this, but in all honesty we have a habit of losing and we look like relegation right now.

Whilst I thought we improved when Davis came on, play like that again with what appeared to be no bloody plan and you're sadly right. Neither Trez or Jota looked up to the mark and El Ghazi, unless coming off the bench against tired defenders, is not the answer. A rethink is needed.

[PeterWithe]

And Trezeguet needs a few words, really stupid second challenge.

[eamonn]

Corruption.

Oh for fuck's sake.  He's shit, we all know he's shit, he's always been shit, but that's all he is.

If we go down by a point/goal difference, he'll have had a deciding say.

[wolfman999]

What is the point of football if games can be destroyed by officials like Kevin Friend and the worse thing is knowing that nothing will be said or done to him. They are answerable to no one. VAR appears to be just an opportunity to get decisions wrong twice. He will go away thinking he's had a good game without a care in the world. If there was any justice, someone would deck him in the fucking car park.

[BoVillan esq]

Robbed, cheated, scammed, to many negatives to throw at this, absolute scandal, first half was okay, we know this is going to be hard, Villa are learning their trade and life back in the Premiership, to believe we are somehow going to out think and out play other Premiership side on mass is just delusional, the object of this season is to survive and that means some games will be just plain ugly lacking in skill and style, grinding out a result, deciding factor in the game, to many yellow cards in the first half making a sending of almost certain to happen, then the sending of. deserved but was it wholly deserved, Mings poor defending and decision making in the box needs to be looked at, finally, the disallowed goal, no words for that, we should have a point and on that basis this would overall been a decent result. awful game not just of our making or the dreadful Palace.   

[Davkaus]

Corruption.

Oh for fuck's sake.  He's shit, we all know he's shit, he's always been shit, but that's all he is.

I disagree. He booked out players every chance he got, one of theirs needed 6 fouls before he bothered booking him, and that goal? We were cheated.

[Richard E]

That’s a Maradona handball level of poor refereeing. Absolutely atrocious decision.

[VillaAlways]

And Trezeguet needs a few words, really stupid second challenge.

As I said in the match thread He shouldn’t have still been on the pitch

[RichardBatchelor]

Can’t be a dive, he’s already passed it! Ridiculous. It was a great run by Grealish.

[amfy]

Anyone know why our fans were singing"fuck the EFL"?

Also that Kinda song is grim in every aspect.

In support of Bury.

[Goldie.7]

We are now 18th having just played some of the worst "Premier League" football I've seen in a while. I honestly think we are in big trouble.

[OCD]

So if he thinks it's not a freekick/penalty, ok don't give it. In which case Lansbury scores anyway. How he gives them a freekick for a supposed dive, I don't know.