Aston Villa vs Crystal Palace Post-Match

[Matt C]

Sublime finish from Diaby for the goal that never was.

[UK Redsox]

Having now seen the penalty, why did it take so long to be confirmed?

[andyh]

Palace are horrible time-wasting negative wankers.
Referee was poor today.
Watkins and McGinn had poor games.
Cash had so much space down that right in the first half, needs to learn to whip one in first time.
Pau Torres needs a rocket up his arse some times, but man he can pass a ball.
Overall a 6/10 sort of performance. Would have settled for a point at 80 mins so chuffed with a win.

I agree about the ref. His decision not to give Dacoure a yellow card when he scythed down Dougie from behind was ludicrous. It was as blatant a booking as your ever likely to see. He did however redeem himself somewhat when he refused VARS attempt to disallow the penalty.

And Ayews assault on McGinn.
It seems karma was more effective than the ref in that instance.

[Toronto Villa]

Having now seen the penalty, why did it take so long to be confirmed?

The VAR team did everything they could to convince the ref his decision was wrong. Including bringing him over to the screen to see his mistake himself. Despite their best efforts the ref told them all to fuck off and went with his original decision.

[SoccerHQ]

Loads of time wasting by Sheffield United.

That it? I know they're clamping down on it to extreme levels but basically means every single delayed throw in/goal kick was accounted for and then some whereas in other games it will just get overlooked.

I just assumed there was an injury for 3-4 minutes and then the rest came from the goal, subs, stoppages.

Annoying as even with 7 minutes Spurs wouldn't even have drawn and we could do with them dropping points soon just to evaporate this feelgood factor they have under Postacoglu.

[garyellis]

Having had some time to reflect my observations as follows:
Should have had this game won at half time
Palace are one of the teams we need to be beating consistently at home and we did
Get used to it not always being electrifying
Torres will be something special when he gets used to this league
Dhuran will/can score goals at this level
We as a support base need to adapt to the Emery era, there are a lot of bed setters on here at times
I’m not there yet but I was 100% convinced we would score today as late as the first one was, the next two were a bonus 😀

[olaftab]

Was looking at the Palace fans forum and they seem to be accepting it because the rules have changed. News to me !?!

I am absolutely shocked that you didn't know that and had to learn it from another clubs fan forum. Not acceptable.


By the wy what's the new rule?

[olaftab]

I know one thing, I'm glad it's Luiz on pens. So much more relaxing.

I must say once the unnecessary VAR shenanigans had ended, and by the way well done to the Ref, I had no worries at all that Dougie will not score.

[rob_bridge]

Was looking at the Palace fans forum and they seem to be accepting it because the rules have changed. News to me !?!

I am absolutely shocked that you didn't know that and had to learn it from another clubs fan forum. Not acceptable.


By the wy what's the new rule?

To quote David Brent 'ooh, don't you know?'

[Somniloquism]

The last goal shows what would have happened if we had scored a lot earlier. Palace had to go forward for the point and we just opened them up easily.

[Ads]

I found myself really enjoying that at the end, but on reflection I was incredibly mardy during it, the 2nd half in  particular. It offended me that a low block gang of shithouse no marks would dare score at Villa Park. I was a bit whingy about Tielemans, who actually did really well in retrospect in the Doug role. Maybe I've become spoilt.

[Meanwood Villa]

Yeah I was slagging off Tielemans too but fair play to him

[Meanwood Villa]

Although doubt he heard me

[Risso]

I found myself really enjoying that at the end, but on reflection I was incredibly mardy during it, the 2nd half in  particular. It offended me that a low block gang of shithouse no marks would dare score at Villa Park. I was a bit whingy about Tielemans, who actually did really well in retrospect in the Doug role. Maybe I've become spoilt.

Tielemans seemed a bit off it when he came on, but then produced two moments of high quality. Hopefully the sign of better things to come from him. I don't know what's up with Kamara at the moment, but it's a bit concerning.

[martyn ellis]

What a pair (trio) of jokers they are on MOTD, claiming the pen was harsh and he got the ball (twice says our Gary) before he takes Watkins out. He definitely does not touch the ball before first contact with Ollie - then touches the ball. Even the Palace guys I was sitting with on the (delayed) train back to London were looking at it and admitting (good on them) that it was a pen. My only surprise was that it a) took so long for VAR not to see it, b) the ref taking so long to check it, and c) those partially sighted boys in the studio not seeing the bleedin obvious.