Fulham v Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[Stu]

63 years and counting.

[Nev]

I utterly hate it but the club didn't want to progress which is all very well if we get a result on Weds....

[Sexual Ealing]

Had it on the radio, sounded a lousy game. How did Nyland do? The goals sounded like there wasn't much he could do, so was his overall game decent?

He didn't have a lot to do except retrieve the ball from the net a couple of times. They were both excellent goals.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

My biggest problem is being so unorganized. Quite frankly, I don’t care who is playing where. Dean has drilled this god damn 4-3-3 into the players and no one knows what the hell is going on. Poor traps, poor defending out top of the box, no facilitator in the middle of the park.

I don’t know how we only play one formation yet we are so bad at it.

I think you've answered your own question.

[Pete3206]

I just hope at the end of this week we don’t look back at an FA cup exit followed by dickings by Leicester and Man City

Unfortunately, that looks likely.

[Villafirst]

We haven’t got the squad to fight on 3 fronts, especially following the horrendous injuries of late. New signings needed urgently.

[CT]

I put the blame firmly on the players today, a number of them looked like they couldn't give a shit about the game.

Absolutely. Kodjia literally just runs whenever he has to, otherwise he just stands still. The attitude of some of those players is disgusting.

[levico]

I just hope at the end of this week we don’t look back at an FA cup exit followed by dickings by Leicester and Man City

Almost unavoidable I would have thought unless there are some miraculous signings over the next few days.

[Stu]

4th consecutive 3rd round defeat

Absolute joke

[villadelph]

My biggest problem is being so unorganized. Quite frankly, I don’t care who is playing where. Dean has drilled this god damn 4-3-3 into the players and no one knows what the hell is going on. Poor traps, poor defending out top of the box, no facilitator in the middle of the park.

I don’t know how we only play one formation yet we are so bad at it.

I think you've answered your own question.

Huh?

[The Edge]

Harry Arter interview straight after the game "talk us through your goal Harry just minutes after you came on"
 Arter: "well i felt like there was a lot of room so i just hit it" Says it all really. Lack of quality, lack of effort,lack of desire. Some of our players today would not hold down a place in the Championship. Elmo, Lansbury, Jota, Kodja, Hourihane, El Ghazi. Piss poor.

[PaulWinch again]

Hardly surprising, but bloody hell shows how weak our squad is.

[Sexual Ealing]

Looking at the bigger picture, Southampton, Watford, Newcastle & Norwich are all still involved, which could work to our advantage because of fixture pile-ups.

We HAVE to stay up this season (FFP, Jack, John, etc)

(League Cup would still be nice though!)

They're probably thinking the same about our upcoming two-legged, morale-sapping semi against Leicester.

[GarTomas]

I put the blame firmly on the players today, a number of them looked like they couldn't give a shit about the game.

Realistically for Taylor, Elmo, Chester, Lansbury, Hourihane, El Ghazi, Jota and Kodjia there next move is down the football food chain and given their age it's going to be soon.
Outworked by Fulham throughout the game.

[PeterWithe]

Didn’t know Knockaert played for them until he scored. Always liked him