Bournemouth v Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[Aldridge Villa]

Dougie and Marvellous ,more so Dougie, don’t seem able to impose themselves for a full 90 mins . Sadly they have only 3 months to turn this ongoing flaw around before it’s too late, with only SJM to come in as a plausible replacement.

[PaulWinch again]

It’s not overly surprising that Luiz can’t impose himself for 90 mins, he’s a young player. He’s talented, but there’s too much reliance placed on him.

[Big Ming]

Disappointed not to have got a point out of that.

Thought it was a nervous and poor quality first half with both backlines recycling possession too easily. But after the quarter your mark I felt we took control and Grealish started to get on the ball around the box. They then score against the run of play and manage to score following a blatant as far as I'm concerned foul on Konsa while we were on the attack.

Second half we had more than enough chances to have equalised. They dropped off 20 yards and kept giving it us back. Davis played well, but his finishing let's him down, sadly it's the most important part of the game.

A poor result, saved by West Ham and Watford being poor.

I felt a few were off colour, Guilbert hit the first man too consistently, El Ghazi, beautiful through ball aside drifted out. Hause was his usual wasteful and slow self in possession. Dealing with those two second balls for the goals were poor.

Come the last five minutes we ran out of ideas and I think it would have been better to take Hause off for Trezuguet and push Dougie higher up.

A frustrating day, a poor result, but its tightened up further and we live to fight another day.

And how is a knockout punch by their keeper not a Penalty - a mistimed punch is no different to a mistimed tackle. penalty all day long!

2 awful decisions in the space of a minute with that second yellow card for their player. Amazingly var checked the penalty claim and agreed it was no penalty.

Probably, if Engels hadn't already got his header away it would have been a VAR penalty.

[Damo70]

Disappointing. I had us down for at least a point today.

[aj2k77]

Again we lacked the physical intensity to compete in midfield, as we knew we have all season and wanted it rectified in the January transfer window. Instead we signed Drinkwater, because, well, he was easy to sign, no one wanted him. It's another thing that will come back to haunt us in May.

Extremely poor today, for the umpteenth time this season. Very brittle away from home, no back bone, too easy to score against and not solid enough to cling on in games where we aren't at the races.

All in all it's a bad recipe for staying up.

[Villafirst]

Looking at the highlights, a terrible parry by Reina for the second goal. Nyland should've started after that brilliant display against Leicester.

[brontebilly]

The referee warned Lerna in the first half to srop.being a twat. Their captain got called over and told him to pull gus head in or he'd be off. He didn't and off he popped.

Didn't even look a foul in fairness for the second yellow. Only saw the highlights just now, two very poor goals to concede. Mings inability to use his right foot to clear the ball, Reina kindly tapping it out for Ake to score. Their keeper was dreadful for our goal too.

I did expect a struggle today after Tuesday. Leaving three centre backs on the pitch when they were down to 10 men does seem if there was fatigue on the sideline too. We should have had enough about us to get an equaliser, disappointing.

[Legion]

Plus a poor clearance by Mings after the free-kick block for their second.

[MalcolmP]

The only thing dafter than calling Grealish shit, is calling people noobs, aren't you 50 odd ffs.

so what would you call them. I could think of a lot of names but I can't repeat them on here.

[Legion]

Harsh sending off aswell.

[PeterWithesShin]

The only thing dafter than calling Grealish shit, is calling people noobs, aren't you 50 odd ffs.

so what would you call them. I could think of a lot of names but I can't repeat them on here.

How about disagreeing with them without calling them names?

[David_Nab]

3CB's when 2 who started where both poor with 10 mins to go was bewildering.

Twice JG made space to set up Nakamba on the edge of the box who shot miles over ,  a cb should of come off to allow Conner to come on to be in that position.

Us not scoring from a corner is now a damning stat , we win corner's 7/8 today and fail to do anything with them.At other end we are one of the worst teams for conceding them ..that is training ground failures as far as I am concerned.

Samatta scores with only chance he had , like Wes working on scraps.

Smith '' We talked about this before the game '' post match comments are wearing very thin.Clearly the half time talk did little better as we were  awful to start the 2nd half untill the red card

[Border villan]

Do we ever practice crossing the ball or corners? We could not beat an egg let alone the first man.

[Villafirst]

I'd rather have lost on Tuesday and got 3 points today. Premier League survival is paramount to keeping our best players and not having severe financial implications.

[wittonwarrior]

Seen worse and it two bad defensive mistakes. The second a poor one from Reina   Too much reliance on one player.