Aston Villa vs Fulham Match Thread

[ez]

Traore is just diving all the time now

He's crap isn't he.

Absolutely useless, can't stand him

I don't want him to get the ball he's so bad.

[Dave]

Benitez, please.

Stick him in for El Ghazi.

[Toronto Villa]

Pathetic from Tyrone. Pathetic from them all really.

I’m sorry but I’m not buying that at all. The defence who have magnificent all season is being asked to make no mistakes and keep clean sheets every game because we cannot score a goal. It’s inevitable that they will slip up in games. We’ve seen it with Emi, now Tyrone. Both players who have brilliant the past few months.

That’s not a slip up though TV, it’s a total fuckup under no pressure whatsoever

I get it Andy. Tyrone Mings makes the odd error. He’s been great the last while but he can make those errors. But the fact that we need him to be perfect is unfair. Our inability to even get a fucking shot on target anymore outs incredible pressure on the defence to be perfect.

[BC Villain]

How much pressure must there be on our backline when our attack is about as much use as a spare dick at an orgy?

[Taylor]

Benitez, please.

Oh be quiet.

[Chris_Jephcott]

Our form in the last 7-8 games is shocking. Really stuttering. I’m glad we have some points on the board because this is becoming really frustrating

[TopDeck113]

My concern is increasingly that teams who plummet at the back end of a season almost invariably continue with that "form" the following campaign. Sheffield United are the latest example.

[SoccerHQ]

Utter fucking wank. I don’t blame the defence at all. Asking them to not concede to give us a chance at a point is really unfair. They have been superb. But this is beyond shit now. We’ve spent way too much money to be this bad. And as good as we thought Dean Smith was or was becoming it is now being proven without a shadow of a doubt it was all Jack.

The defence were at fault for the two Spurs goals, the Sheff Utd goal and the Newcastle goal. so hardly been superb all the time.  Agree about lack of goals putting pressure on them though.

Exactly. That was entirely on Mings. Played Mitrovic needlessly into acres of space.

Bad defensive errors will always happen to every side over a season, our defence is still what 4th or 5th best in the league?

It's looking like it will be 3 goals in 7 games since Jack got injured so I'd say that's far more alarming.

[ktvillan]

Pathetic from Tyrone. Pathetic from them all really.

I’m sorry but I’m not buying that at all. The defence who have magnificent all season is being asked to make no mistakes and keep clean sheets every game because we cannot score a goal. It’s inevitable that they will slip up in games. We’ve seen it with Emi, now Tyrone. Both players who have brilliant the past few months.

I'm only talking about today.

My point is about today. Players make mistakes. You cannot expect them to keep playing perfectly to give us a chance to get a pathetic point let alone win games at this level when we cannot score a goal.

Sorry you can't defend Mings on that or blame the rest of the team, that's 100% his fault, under zero pressure, plenty of time just lack of concentration.  And it's not the first time either.

[mrfuse]

This is like the England game obviously Mings is at fault but we should be 3 or 4 goals up against Opposition like this. If we make a mistake at the back or a give away a penalty it doesnt cost us so much.

[Risso]

I get it Andy. Tyrone Mings makes the odd error. He’s been great the last while but he can make those errors. But the fact that we need him to be perfect is unfair. Our inability to even get a fucking shot on target anymore outs incredible pressure on the defence to be perfect.

I understand the point you're making, but that was truly pathetic from Mings. There are mistakes, then there's literally giving the opposition a goal on a plate which that was.

[Stinkin_Thinkin]

luiz thinks he's on copacabana  beach

[Bobby Boy]

How much pressure must there be on our backline when our attack is about as much use as a spare dick at an orgy?

It would be a fair point except that Fulham have done little in this game. You'd need to travel a long way down the divisions to see a goal as bad as that.

[Jon Crofts]

From the form team in Europe for weeks on end to this absolute dross.

[Damo70]

Can we restart the game? We clearly weren't ready.