Aston Villa v Burnley Post Match Thread

[VILLA MOLE]

Duran was still spinning when it when Doug was doing his run up😃

[ChicagoLion]

It's a pen. You don't have to clatter a player for it to be a foul. Their player was dumb as fuck to do that shirt pull while on a yellow. The only wrong decision was the handball, which was outside the box. I assume it would have been a yellow and a good free kick chance for them. Although a red appearing wouldn't shock me these days.

The contact was minimal, Duran earns the penalty. It has happened against us many times. I am grateful but it doesn’t make it right.

Duran goes down and does a richard Burton which wins the pen . I'd be annoyed if it's against us but it's a pen

The thing is , no one knows what constitutes a hand ball or a foul in the penalty area.
It’s a lottery, Duran came up with a winning ticket.

[Lastfootstamper]

Had it been one given against us, I think my feelings of injustice at any ease of opposition tumble would be far, far outweighed by my spleen-venting at the defender who seems to think he's got all ****ing day.

[ChicagoLion]

Had it been one given against us, I think my feelings of injustice at any ease of opposition tumble would be far, far outweighed by my spleen-venting at the defender who seems to think he's got all ****ing day.

explain?

[PeterWithesShin]

Ignoring the decision being in favour of us today, we as fans of the game may prefer a challenge like that to not be a pen, but the way the game is these days it is. Which is why both the ref and VAR gave a pen.

My issue is more that it is a pen, but an even more blatant one on Ollie recently wasn't. It's the inconsistencies that annoy me as it does at times feel like a lottery, and with VAR it shouldn't be.

[rob_bridge]

Ignoring the decision being in favour of us today, we as fans of the game may prefer a challenge like that to not be a pen, but the way the game is these days it is. Which is why both the ref and VAR gave a pen.

My issue is more that it is a pen, but an even more blatant one on Ollie recently wasn't. It's the inconsistencies that annoy me as it does at times feel like a lottery, and with VAR it shouldn't be.

The Watkins one last Friday is unfathonable when he was pulled over.

Today's was a pen. It isn't 1975 or 1985 or even 2015 anymore

[Lastfootstamper]

Their defender was totally unaware of what was around him. It's things like that which land them in the position they find themselves in the table.

[Skerra]

Considering we have 30,000 on the waiting list, does anyone know why the club don’t give out attendance figures anymore?

[Louzie0]

I’d really like to know that as well.

[ROBBO]

Players out of their prefered position, players coming back from injury and not up to the pace, the weakest subs bench for some time, no wonder we are off the pace. Lenglet and Carlos are two very slow centre backs and got caught out, we will get a couple in this coming month.

[ChicagoLion]

Ignoring the decision being in favour of us today, we as fans of the game may prefer a challenge like that to not be a pen, but the way the game is these days it is. Which is why both the ref and VAR gave a pen.

My issue is more that it is a pen, but an even more blatant one on Ollie recently wasn't. It's the inconsistencies that annoy me as it does at times feel like a lottery, and with VAR it shouldn't be.

Agree, we don’t know any more.
I am pretty sure that most refs have never played the game beyond under 11s.

[itbrvilla]

Considering we have 30,000 on the waiting list, does anyone know why the club don’t give out attendance figures anymore?

Because they have a narrative to instill with the fans.

[Legion]

I thought Foster was very good today to be honest, beat the offside trap a few times and generally gave Carlos and Lenglet a match.

i think it was more a case of Carlos / Lenglet being poor, he should have been handled with minimal fuss but we looked ragged defensively .
Not helped by Moreno having another absolute shocker

Moreno wasn't that bad, he's getting back up to speed. Do  you go to the matches?

Does that matter? I don't any more.

[Ian.]

They asked me the same? I thought it was odd as obviously I didn’t.

Fucking hell that was hard work. Not just us and not taking our chances but my stream was jumping forwards and backwards through time. I felt like I was in an episode of Lost and Desmond was about to turn up for tea.

UTV and Happy New Year!

So, you weren't at VP?

[Legion]

They asked me the same? I thought it was odd as obviously I didn’t.

Fucking hell that was hard work. Not just us and not taking our chances but my stream was jumping forwards and backwards through time. I felt like I was in an episode of Lost and Desmond was about to turn up for tea.

UTV and Happy New Year!

So, you weren't at VP?

We must be inferior fans in their eyes.