Bournemouth - 2 Aston Villa - 2 Post-Match

[OCD]

It's not his position. I'd have put McGinn in there myself and had him further forward.

I hoped the second half against Spurs will have shown him how to set-up in away games. Tielemans off Watkins. Bailey on the right, Luiz and McGinn in the centre today. Left side, maybe Moreno in front of Digne with Ramsey able to replace Moreno once he tired.

[rougegorge]

It's always easier with hindsight to say Emery got the defensive line up wrong, but he did today. Also starting with Zaniolo was a mistake; he hasn't shown the form or the capability yet to be up to the pace of the game.

There seems to be quite a few dismissive and patronising views of the opponents today, almost verging on arrogance. It wasn't long ago that we would have been content with a comfortable lower half position in the table.

I know they didn't play in midweek, but Bournemouth played well and kept the pressing and energy going all game, and they were creative. They are much better than the teams that came up for example, and have improved recently.

Clearly, they aren't as good as teams in the top half, but they aren't as terrible as they are being made out to be.

 

[Ian.]

It’s not rocket science and Emery has even said what he’s doing. Some players need minutes, we have lots of games and they all need to be playing at some point. Cash was rested obviously so he can play against Man City and Arsenal.

I’m sure we’ll see our usual 11 start against these two.

[Risso]

It’s not rocket science and Emery has even said what he’s doing. Some players need minutes, we have lots of games and they all need to be playing at some point. Cash was rested obviously so he can play against Man City and Arsenal.

I’m sure we’ll see our usual 11 start against these two.

There have been similarly iffy decisions in just about every away game though. In any case, three points is three points, and I'd argue that Bournemouth away should be an easier game than Man City at home.

[LeeB]

Also, we need to be able to play in different ways so we don't become predictable.

[Risso]

Also, we need to be able to play in different ways so we don't become predictable.

These different ways, away from home, they're not working. The predictable home line ups are.

[LeeB]

Also, we need to be able to play in different ways so we don't become predictable.

These different ways, away from home, they're not working. The predictable home line ups are.

Yeah, but long term they will and we'll win more stuff because of it.

[PaulWinch again]

It’s not rocket science and Emery has even said what he’s doing. Some players need minutes, we have lots of games and they all need to be playing at some point. Cash was rested obviously so he can play against Man City and Arsenal.

I’m sure we’ll see our usual 11 start against these two.

There have been similarly iffy decisions in just about every away game though. In any case, three points is three points, and I'd argue that Bournemouth away should be an easier game than Man City at home.

Well yeah but that’s why you try to rotate in the Bournemouth game and hope you can still get the 3 points. It didn’t work out, but if we rotated against Citeh at home we’d likely massively struggle and fans would be very annoyed.

[Somniloquism]

Since we came back up, we have beaten Bournemouth exactly once in five games and never at their place. I'm not sure why it should have been an automatic win when a close rival in Newcastle lost there only two games ago.

Although Emery does need to stop handicapping us in matches going forward. Kamara missing didn't need wide-scale changes across the board. We know Tielemans hasn't worked sitting in front of the back 4 as well.

[LeonW]

I think there was a fair bit of load management today from Emery. I think we have to do it otherwise we’ll definitely be tiring out MON style by playing the same players every week. At the end of day we’ve got 4 points from two away games against Bournemouth and Spurs. Plenty of character shown in those two games. I’ll take that. Team and players still evolving, long term injuries coming back. I have total faith in Emery.

[Clampy]

People need to remember players are playing international games as well. He's doing absolutely the right thing shuffling it about. We might not like it but it needs to be done. I'm surprised some fans struggle or maybe just don't want to understand  that.

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We have the 6th best away form and best home form (Liverpool 1 more win from 1 extra game, but we've scored more). And we're 4th. Not getting much wrong are we?

Qualified in Europe, doing well in the league. Pretty good this Villa lark of late.

[VillaTim]

conceded early again in both halves , really is a bad habit and absolutely piss poor

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Two contrasting posts there. Not that I disagree with how annoying it is to concede bad goals and cheap goals. They'll always wind me up and they MUST BE ERADICATED...on our quest for absolute perfection it seems when taken into context with the post above.

[VillaBoy_23]

conceded early again in both halves , really is a bad habit and absolutely piss poor

You’re staggering boring