Bournemouth - 2 Aston Villa - 2 Post-Match

[PaulWinch again]

The decision not to give Semenyo a second yellow was very poor.

[VillaTim]

We keep putting in sub-standard away performances because Emery keeps getting the starting line up bang wrong. I don’t expect to win every game but Emery keeps getting the team badly wrong in away games. It’s annoying because at home we’re almost perfect.

We've now failed to beat Wolves, Forest and Bournemouth away, three deeply shit teams.

Is this what drove the Arsenal fans mad ? Obviously their bar was very high when Emery was there and the wriggle room for him was non existent

[PaulWinch again]

A point away from home, against a side in form, leaving us 4th in the league is hardly an utter disaster.

[Risso]

A point away from home, against a side in form, leaving us 4th in the league is hardly an utter disaster.

Did you watch the game?

[Aldridge Villa]

We keep putting in sub-standard away performances because Emery keeps getting the starting line up bang wrong. I don’t expect to win every game but Emery keeps getting the team badly wrong in away games. It’s annoying because at home we’re almost perfect.

We've now failed to beat Wolves, Forest and Bournemouth away, three deeply shit teams.

Is this what drove the Arsenal fans mad ? Obviously their bar was very high when Emery was there and the wriggle room for him was non existent

[PaulWinch again]

A point away from home, against a side in form, leaving us 4th in the league is hardly an utter disaster.

Did you watch the game?

Some of it - did I miss the bit where we didn’t get a point away from home against a side in form?

[Flamingo Lane]

The decision not to give Semenyo a second yellow was very poor.

I've just this minute seen it.  I'd say it was outrageous.

[Clampy]

We've got something out of a game we should have lost. We need to learn from it but we're still handily placed.

[ChicagoLion]

We've got something out of a game we should have lost. We need to learn from it but we're still handily placed.

same as last week.

[Ads]

We missed Kamara too against these shithouses

[pauliewalnuts]

A point away from home, against a side in form, leaving us 4th in the league is hardly an utter disaster.

Did you watch the game?

Shit though we may have been for long spells, we took a point, so he’s right, it wasn’t an utter disaster.

We are going to have blips and knock backs, we are an improving team a year into a journey. We are not the finished article, and the manager is not infallible.

The away form is not great but I’m more than happy to be patient with that given that we’ve just won thirteen consecutive home league games.

A bit of perspective needed, really. Annoying but hey ho.

[PeterWithesShin]

While 2 point from those 3 can be viewed as disappointing in isolation, the fact they are during a run of W7 D2 L1 means it's anything but disappointing.

[Clampy]

A point away from home, against a side in form, leaving us 4th in the league is hardly an utter disaster.

Did you watch the game?

Shit though we may have been for long spells, we took a point, so he’s right, it wasn’t an utter disaster.

We are going to have blips and knock backs, we are an improving team a year into a journey. We are not the finished article, and the manager is not infallible.

The away form is not great but I’m more than happy to be patient with that given that we’ve just won thirteen consecutive home league games.

A bit of perspective needed, really. Annoying but hey ho.

This.

[Stinkin_Thinkin]

Emery's tinkering away from home cost us again. Zaniolo starting with Bailey seemed too ambitious to me but I then thought fuck it, it's only bournmouth.
However we might aswell had 10 men on the pitch first half. Zaniolo played like a competition winner.
Shoehorning Diego Carlos in and shoving Konsa out wide doesn't make sense to me. Look at that amazing tackle Konsa put in 2nd half in a central position! Thats where he should be playing. He's the bestcentre half at the club and is comfortable on the ball. Everything Bournmouth did was down the right hand side.

I don't understand why we don't start strong, square pegs in square holes then when we're comfortably in control he can tinker and bring on the likes of Carlos, shift players about.
If we don't take our chance this season, the likes of Man utd, chelsea and newcastle will almost certainly spend heavily next year.
Martinez made some crucial saves as usual and fantastic header by Watkins. He really used the muscles in his neck to generate the power, to rescure the point. Did feel like a defeat for me with big guns coming up, but come the end of the season might be a important point, who knows?

[Risso]

I wouldn’t mind if we played well, but that defensive display was atrocious. They could have scored 4 or 5. Every single away game Emery gets it all wrong from the start. Got away with it against Spurs but today was a really poor display.