Bournemouth v Aston Villa Post Match Thread

[postal]

We should have grabbed a draw, but unfortunately they don't always come off, and the Watford win the other week was sweet.

On the positives, Samatta got his goal and Davies is back. Hope that is a partnership that will have more success in the next games (quickly please)

There are no easy games in this league, and at least we don't have West Ham's next 2 games - ManCity & Liverpool 

[villa `cross the mersey]

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.

I think many of us are in that camp ...as much as I am looking forward to Wembley the potential repeat of the Arsenal FA Cup Final result will have a terrible draining effect on the club and fans - conversely a win could be the catalyst to survival ....
Today's result doesn't define the season but coupled with the result earlier in the season against Bournemouth and it sends out a message that we are short of quality for the league but that should not excuse the lack of commitment or application

[ChicagoLion]

Tuesday our midfield allowed Leicester plenty of opportunities, the difference is that our goalkeeper made 3 brilliant saves, today the same happened and our goalkeeper parried the ball to thier player.
We allways give the opposition chances in fact we do this more than any other team.
So it’s no surprise why we lose so many games.

[itmustbe_it is!]

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.

Thanks Ads, always good to get a perspective from someone who’s there

Agree, a measured and informative post

[Uknowthescore]

Think grealish needs to start from the middle now. He’s our best player by a mile and needs more of the ball. He’s wasted on the left at times.

[Clark W Griswold]

Think grealish needs to start from the middle now. He’s our best player by a mile and needs more of the ball. He’s wasted on the left at times.

Played in behind two strikers in a 3-4-1-2 and scrap wingers? Yeah, I’d go with that. At a push the wide players we have could play more centrally anyway so they wouldn’t be wasted necessarily.

[rougegorge]

Tuesday our midfield allowed Leicester plenty of opportunities, the difference is that our goalkeeper made 3 brilliant saves, today the same happened and our goalkeeper parried the ball to thier player.
We allways give the opposition chances in fact we do this more than any other team.
So it’s no surprise why we lose so many games.

Yes, we are way ahead in the league for shots conceded and it's not good enough.

All the positivity from the last 2 matches evaporated in the first half. Most of the players don't appear to be able to string together more than one or two decent performances in a row.

I am fed up of our away performances in the league. Talk of blowing hot and cold in away games is generally misplaced as we rarely blow hot.

Apart from Norwich, we have probably only really had 4 decent halves away from home: Spurs, Arsenal, Man U and Burnley.  That leaves a big gap filled by a lot of mediocre or sub-standard football.

I really hope not, but maybe  the improved and more energetic displays against Watford and Leicester were a blip rather than a sign of better things to come.

[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.

How about disagreeing with them without calling them names?

grealish is shit comment doesn't deserve an ounce of respect the guy is a xxxx

[Uknowthescore]

Think grealish needs to start from the middle now. He’s our best player by a mile and needs more of the ball. He’s wasted on the left at times.

Played in behind two strikers in a 3-4-1-2 and scrap wingers? Yeah, I’d go with that. At a push the wide players we have could play more centrally anyway so they wouldn’t be wasted necessarily.

That’s the one mate

[PeterWithesShin]

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[ktvillan]

I only saw some of the second half and looking at the highlights it looked like Jack was very unlucky and Bournemouth very lucky with the one that brushed the post and even more so with the one that went through the keepers legs. 

Nakamba was asleep for the first goal allowing Billing to get to the ball before him, but also must call out Fred for a piss poor half cocked challenge on the header that sent it back into the box.  And Nakamba's two "shots" in the second half.  Comedy gold.

I think Reina, with his experience, has to do better than parry the ball back into the centre of the area like that, surely he should have pushed it wide?  Also I reckon on recent form Nyland saves both those goals.

For those calling Davis a non-scoring striker.  For God's sake he's about 22, and he's never had what I would call a decent run in the team - I'm talking 15-20 games minimum.  Any striker would struggle for goals when playing in bits and pieces, here and there, and mostly sub appearances, and often in a team that is playing shite.   To dismiss him as not a goalscorer is pig ignorant in my view until he's had a proper chance.  His hold up play is often excellent and you can see defenders don't like having to face him because of his strength. Plus he made Samatta's goal today.  I say give the kid a break.   

[Ads]

Now back in Brum and a few thoughts; Salisbury has some nice pubs, it's a definite and blatant push before their second goal and Engels is indeed smashed in the mush. 2nd goal should never have taken place and it's an obvious penalty.

[AsTallAsLions]

Now back in Brum and a few thoughts; Salisbury has some nice pubs, it's a definite and blatant push before their second goal and Engels is indeed smashed in the mush. 2nd goal should never have taken place and it's an obvious penalty.

Yes. But neither of those things excuse an otherwise shit performance.

[Des Little]

Not long in and not read the thread but today left me frustrated to say the least. Too many players off the pace, not enough brains used, especially when they went to ten men. We should be intelligent enough by now to make the man advantage count, yet time and time again, we are found wanting. Hate to say it, but we got what we deserved today - nothing.

Let’s hope we use this two week break to work on getting the basics right, notably creative passing and decent crossing because today there was little or none of both.

[Steve67]

We are infuriatingly and consistently inconsistent.  Very poor defensively for the goals.  I still cannot believe that we didn't use the market to bring in a defensive midfielder.  Still outside the bottom three thanks to other results.  We still seem to lack nous and a bit of motivation.  We have a couple of really tough months coming up and I honestly think that we will struggle as confidence is so variable.