Brentford vs Aston Villa Post Match.

[oldtimernow]

Rather have Sinisalo in goal than Olsen

[Pete3206]

Rather have a lampstand in goal than Olsen

[Drummond]

Olsen just doesn't inspire confidence in anyone. I'd rather have Steer when he's fit. Or perhaps Sinisalo. I suspect that's what will happen come the summer.

Our options from the bench were limited, we're missing Coutinho and Bailey to provide options, and Kamara for strengrh too. Which means we need reinforcements to cope next season. Of Ramsey A and Archer join, perhaps that would be enough but to really push on we need a bit more.

Our form is still Top 4 under this manager, with these players.

They did well yesterday and I think they showed that we need another option as an attacking outlet on the right.

[LeeB]

Watch the replay and you see Ash trying to put the ball behind for a corner to them and completely misses the ball. Plaudits to the subs, thought Digne played well but for most of the game their wingers had a day out.

Yep, not sure where all the "Ash was caught napping" or "he made a bad decision" stuff comes from. He tried to put the ball out for a corner, like defenders often do at the far post when under pressure and facing their own goal, but he just missed the ball completely. He puts that out 99 times out of a 100, so it was a poor goal to concede.

A good point considering the open goal they missed and being one-down with so little time left.  There is no way Ollie doesn't try that header at the end, but little Emi behind him would have had a free header without stretching, and I'm sure he would have scored.

If little Emi had made the call, maybe (just maybe) Ollie would have left it for him and attacked the goal, in anticipation of Emi's header possibly being saved.
Small margins but big decisions, and would not be surprised if this is not discussed during the after match briefing.

I think he had called, you could here him going batshit at Ollie afterwards

[Nunkin1965]

Rather have a lampstand in goal than Olsen

Bet there is a Swedish or Danish keeper called Lampstand somewhere!

[9fingers]

isnt he the chelsea manager?

[Risso]

In The Times today they describe Olsen as “radiating uncertainty” which sums him up quite nicely.

[Pete3206]

I wonder if Tom Heaton would be tempted to warm our bench next season instead of at Man U.

[oldtimernow]

Sam Johnstone could be good back up....knows the club and where we are headed better than sitting on a Palace bench

[Villa in Denmark]

I wonder if part of Olsen's problem is that he knows he's no.2 to one of the best goalkeepers in the world and that has brought it's own pressure on him? Just a thought.

He was shit at FCK as well. Just less noticeable there due to the generally shite standard of the Supaliga.

[Goldenballs]

Watch the replay and you see Ash trying to put the ball behind for a corner to them and completely misses the ball. Plaudits to the subs, thought Digne played well but for most of the game their wingers had a day out.

Yep, not sure where all the "Ash was caught napping" or "he made a bad decision" stuff comes from. He tried to put the ball out for a corner, like defenders often do at the far post when under pressure and facing their own goal, but he just missed the ball completely. He puts that out 99 times out of a 100, so it was a poor goal to concede.

A good point considering the open goal they missed and being one-down with so little time left.  There is no way Ollie doesn't try that header at the end, but little Emi behind him would have had a free header without stretching, and I'm sure he would have scored.

If little Emi had made the call, maybe (just maybe) Ollie would have left it for him and attacked the goal, in anticipation of Emi's header possibly being saved.
Small margins but big decisions, and would not be surprised if this is not discussed during the after match briefing.

I think he had called, you could here him going batshit at Ollie afterwards

Yeah he went apeshit, booted the post as well I think.

[LeonW]

A few players were noticeably off it yesterday, namely Moreno and Young. Watkins also was back to running the channels as we were just not getting any decent balls to him. I think overall Frank outthought Emery a bit and they imposed their style on us, rather than the other way found as has been the case lately in our other games.

Still, all part of the development. It was a good point in the end and we move on to hopefully smash Fulham.

I agree with this. Quite possibly for the first time since he's been here Unai didn't surprise his opposite number enough - they anticipated us and we didn't respond until much later on.

I do think their spell of dominance was a mix of this and the loss of Emi, though.

Agree with both comments but all I would add is that Emery didn’t have much on the bench that he could use to change things up. Traore and that was pretty much it.

[LeonW]

Sam Johnstone could be good back up....knows the club and where we are headed better than sitting on a Palace bench

Good shout.

[ez]

I liked how McGinn cut the celebrating short and got them back to our half to get the game restarted.

[Toronto Villa]

Sam Johnstone could be good back up....knows the club and where we are headed better than sitting on a Palace bench

Good shout.

Do we have any idea who competent he would be at receiving the ball under pressure and playing it out calmly to one of our players? That's going to be a prerequisite under Emery.