Bournemouth v Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[Oscar Arce]

This was our most important game of the season and Smith and the players did not respond.
Why on earth are we playing against ten men with 20 minutes to go needing a goal, and we're playing with three central defenders and two defensive midfielders.
Hause should've been off and Hourihane on, positive change plus the ones he made, would've given us more attacking options and maybe we could have rescued our pathetic first half performance.
I can't see how we're going to get out of this now.We'll need wins against the likes of Spurs, Sheffield United, Chelsea to survive.
Poor all round. Pissed off with Smith's negativity.

[Bad English]

Fuck me! What a depressing weekend!

[The Edge]

Davis a positive?  The man can't finish, his control is ropey and hes constantly injured.  If that's our silver lining we really are fucked.

Davis did well.

No he didn't. Only a hat trick Thierry Henri-esque in the 37 minutes game time he got would satisfy some of our supporters.

I think him scoring once in a while would satisfy most of us.

The time to slag him off will be when he's had a decent run of games and done nothing.

[hilts_coolerking]

You can have the best strikers in the league, but if can't give them decent service........

Not necessarily.  Benteke used to create chances for himself out of nowhere.

[The Edge]

You can have the best strikers in the league, but if can't give them decent service........

This

[passport1]

I think we have Smith for the remainder of the season after he miraculously got us to Wemberly. I am firmly of the opinion  we are going down interspersed  with a spanking in the League Cup final. Happy days.

[mr underhill]

Davis is never going to cut it. Holding up the ball to bring others into play is fine but as a striker, you have to score yourself and he can't.

[Legion]

D-

[Ads]

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.

[Villafirst]

We're still a point above the drop zone. Results will be up and down. We played so well against Leicester so it's not all gloom. Good job there's a 2 week break now to try and regroup. 2 weeks closer to SJM returning; him coming back could prove to be the difference to enable us to scrape out of it.

[Scovilla]

I hate these Saturdays! I was hopeful after Tuesday's game but our lack of consistency will kill us eventually.

[hilts_coolerking]

Out of the bottom six I think I'm right in saying it's only us and Watford who didn't pick up points today.  Not a good day.

[Demitri_C]

At least we are not in the bottom 3.  That’s about all you can say.

We will be. A absolutely pathetic result. Ten men against one kf the worsf teams in the league yet we should ahve lost 3-1.

Too many shit performances.  Worst player on the pitch was guilbert. All of his  crosses didnt beat the first man.

Hause mings were also pathetic.  Luiz was shit and grealish was shit.

Samatta davis targett only ones who walk out with any pride today.

Why the fuck ws grealish playing so Deep???  Smith has alot ti answr for fir that garbage today.

[cdbearsfan]

The hope is that today's result proves a fatal blow to Watford's confidence and they go on a disastrous run. Would only need to find one more team to finish above then.

[MalcolmP]

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!