I must be the odd one out because I really enjoyed the game - until the red card I thought we were chasing shadows largely but fortunate that they picked two pests up front in maupay & Connolly rather than Murray who is an actual goal threat/finisher. Dale Stephens, If I remember correctly was first choice when we signed Westwood I thought ran the game again until the red card.
Hourihane’s yellow was comedy gold - the incompetent one missed the Brighton player handball, then let Targett off a foul because he’d missed the handball & booked hourihane for a clean tackle? All within 10 seconds :-)
Liked seeing Mings laughing at the Brighton fans singing ‘just a shit Lewis Dunk’ - good lad
Thought Jack was excellent, Heaton very good, the rest weren’t at it for me - McGinn in particular looked shattered. Targett is sooo slow, he made one or two good interceptions but when he goes forward he is 100% not getting back to stop any break & there seemed a lot of uncertainty betw him & Mings over who attacks the ball.
We beat 10 men 2-0....shame we lost 1-0 to the 11 :-)
Like everyone else this VAR is becoming a farce - until they actually get some independence in the VAR chair it simply will not work, they are protecting each other rather than trying to get the correct answers....& it doesn’t take much to actually tell those of us in the ground what is happening ie announcement that says ‘Aston Villa number 9 fouled the goalkeeper’ - at the moment it is utterly pathetic