Brentford vs Aston Villa Post Match.

[eamonn]

He deservedly gets stick, but fair play to Digne. Positive in his play from when he came on. That was a nasty boot to the face that could have rattled him given his, er, at times, physical shirking but he was great. GOt into good positions on the left and his quick cross caused the confusion in the box which led to our equaliser.

[LeeB]

He deservedly gets stick, but fair play to Digne. Positive in his play from when he came on. That was a nasty boot to the face that could have rattled him given his, er, at times, physical shirking but he was great. GOt into good positions on the left and his quick cross caused the confusion in the box which led to our equaliser.

Yeah, credit where it's due

[clash city rocker]

If we hadn't have got Unai in when we did we could now be in Evertons shoes. Thank you Mr. Emery. Thank you.

[OCD]

He deservedly gets stick, but fair play to Digne. Positive in his play from when he came on. That was a nasty boot to the face that could have rattled him given his, er, at times, physical shirking but he was great. GOt into good positions on the left and his quick cross caused the confusion in the box which led to our equaliser.

How did we not get a free-kick for that?!

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Losing our best player at half time didn't help. They'd never have scored with Emi in goal. Overall a poor performance where we looked leggy and not up for a fight, no more demonstrated with almost every single 50/50 ball won by Brentford. They had our number for most of the game, pretty much controlled the midfield, starved Watkins of any real chances, put Moreno in his shell and always looked a threat on the break.

Happy with the point, the chance of taking all three in the dying minutes is something I'm trying to forget about. Thought the ref was poor, the booking for Young was a joke compared to what he let go.  Still, a Saudi win against Spurs and the table won't look to bad. 6th to 8th is where we're at. Hopefully Tuesday we're back firing but we really could do with a bigger (healthy) squad right now.

[RamboandBruno]

Honestly got away with that, the worst half hour or so I can remember us playing. The subs helped so well done Unai on that one, but otherwise Frank had them doing to us something like what we did to Newcastle last week - disrupting our flow, denying the forwards space, all that jazz.

One thing - it's amazing how much we rely on Martinez, not just as a keeper but as a sweeper. His distribution gets us going and his anticipation lets us play higher up the pitch. With the best will in the world, Olsen's lack of both was amazingly apparent.

We powered back, could've won in the end which is honestly a near-miracle, but we should be grateful for the point because, my God, we were weak as fuck for a good spell there.

Im not sure I agree it was miraculous. It was a scrappy, poor but even 1st half, they never looked like scoring, nor did we.
Second half they upped the tempo and we looked a bit shell shocked that Martinez was off and Olsens distribution was so poor, we just kept giving it back to them. But the three subs completely changed the flow of the game in our favour and its just a shame we couldn’t get them on as planned, before their goal. They battered us for 20 mins at the start of the second half, but i thought we largely controlled the last 20.
A draw was a fair point.
If we want Europe beating Fulham is a must and we now probably need to get some kind of result against Man United or Liverpool away.

[Risso]

With Martinez we get a brilliant shot stopper, somebody who commands his area, distributes the ball well and acts as a sweeper. With Olsen we get a keeper who can't do a single aspect of goalkeeping to an even reasonably competent level. He's horrific, I'd rather one of the youth lads play for the expereince.

[Toronto Villa]

Not a foul apparently

[four fornicholl]

With Martinez we get a brilliant shot stopper, somebody who commands his area, distributes the ball well and acts as a sweeper. With Olsen we get a keeper who can't do a single aspect of goalkeeping to an even reasonably competent level. He's horrific, I'd rather one of the youth lads play for the expereince.

I noticed our defence passed it back to him once in the second half, that tells its own story

[pauliewalnuts]

No way Martinez concedes from that shot.

Olsen is truly awful and I thought his awfulness rippled out and freaked out the rest of the team.

Still, play badly, still get points. That’s the name of the game.

[Toronto Villa]

Said during the match I don't think another club has a disparity in quality at any position as large as we do between first team keeper and back up.

[Chris_Jephcott]

Re. Martinez, sounds like he has a stomach bug. I hope it doesn’t spread to rest of the camp with the week ahead

[Beard82]

With Martinez we get a brilliant shot stopper, somebody who commands his area, distributes the ball well and acts as a sweeper. With Olsen we get a keeper who can't do a single aspect of goalkeeping to an even reasonably competent level. He's horrific, I'd rather one of the youth lads play for the expereince.

I think this is exactly it, he cant do anything - he has no redeemable features.

[RichardBatchelor]

First half we were poor on the ball but thought the back five all played well. That changed when Olsen came on. Ash and Moreno went to pieces. The first half of the second half was really bad, couldn’t get hold of the ball and the whole side jittery because of Olsen, who again was awful. I feel for the guy and hope to god he doesn’t come on websites like this! After the goal and subs I thought we were miles better, with Buendia, Doug and Ramsey running directly at the defence. We caused them some problems. Chambers did well. Overall a fortunate point. I’ll take it!

[curiousorange]

That's the problem with Olsen: he's not just a safe pair of hands unimaginative veteran, he's negatively impactful on how we set up and perform.