Fulham 1-2 Aston Villa post match pint

[Rory]

Good win for Villa I thought the biggest difference was Ollie Watkins, plus your a team going for possible Champions League and a European trophy, were we are trying to get a top half finish for the second season running, I agree what you’ve saving about the referee, if you’re criticising when you’ve won he must been bad!!  I don’t think we played that bad, with a bit more luck we might have sneaked a draw but we came up against a good Villa side, now go on and get in the champions league , we’ll try and help you at Man Utd next week and get some revenge for our last season’s quarter final

Cheers LF, all the best for the rest of the season. 👍

The man's a polite legend.

Yep, Franky's a gentleman.

Good luck to Fulham for the rest of the season, one of the few clubs I don't have a problem with.

[ROBBO]

There can be disagrement about the offside decision but the tackle on Watkins was definately a penalty, how VAR can look at it and say otherwise needs to be looked into. Score from that and we would have cruised home. The commentator opinioned that as it was the young refs first game VAR didn't want to go against him.

[Villafirst]

Both pathetic decisions on Moreno's 'offside' goal and Ollie's blatant penalty. Will we be getting an apology from the clowns at PGMOL come Monday morning?

[Meanwood Villa]

There can be disagrement about the offside decision but the tackle on Watkins was definately a penalty, how VAR can look at it and say otherwise needs to be looked into. Score from that and we would have cruised home. The commentator opinioned that as it was the young refs first game VAR didn't want to go against him.

Given what we've heard from ex refs recently, that wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

[Hookeysmith]

Considering our injury list (only just being politely mentioned in the media) we are 4th in the prem and back in the driving seat to hold it.
I genuinely think without the in season injuries we were in a title battle.

Although not 100% perfect SUE is fucking genius.

Now we owe Forest a shoeing

[baddowvillans]

I've seen them given for less than that but equally I've seen them not with the dismissal Zouma "muscles" him off the ball.  Still sounds like a penalty but it's one where the likes of Dermot Gallagher hide behind word soup.

[Astnor]

Lenglet and Pau did work as a pair. Defence was good , didnt let them many chances. Second goal wonderful. We are at our best when we can stick passes through midfield to the attackers in a fluid movement. And Unai - what a man for us.

[paul_e]

I've seen them given for less than that but equally I've seen them not with the dismissal Zouma "muscles" him off the ball.  Still sounds like a penalty but it's one where the likes of Dermot Gallagher hide behind word soup.

Diop not Zouma and watch it again, the real offence is his leg across Ollie's thigh which is just a blatant penalty. I can't see anything to let the officials off with, it was a terrible decision.

[Mister E]

I've seen them given for less than that but equally I've seen them not with the dismissal Zouma "muscles" him off the ball.  Still sounds like a penalty but it's one where the likes of Dermot Gallagher hide behind word soup.

Diop not Zouma and watch it again, the real offence is his leg across Ollie's thigh which is just a blatant penalty. I can't see anything to let the officials off with, it was a terrible decision.

The only mitigation I saw was that Diop got to the ball and toed it back to the keeper. However, he stretched across and impeded Watkins as he did it.

[LeeB]

It was worse than the one they tried and failed to overturn against Palace.

[Brazilian Villain]

Great to get three points, top finishing from Ollie but really it was only squeeky bum time due to inept officials.

Just seen the betting to win the league, Spurs 100/1 Villa 150/1.

We're now 80/1 with PP, Spurs still 100/1. Seems about right.

[lovejoy]

Those odds are just pie in the sky. More relevant,y is top 4. Spurs are 2.12 and we are 2.4 with Manc U 6. We could have done with holding on against Man U last week and the spurs game in a few weeks is a big one.

[Brazilian Villain]

Agreed, for top 4 we're 10/11 with PP, Spurs Evens, and Yanited 11/2. For top 5 Villa and Spurs are 1/5, and Yanited 11/5.

[oldtimernow]

Can you see the dotted line right next to the 1 on Moreno?

I have now. If the dotted line is accurate, it looks like by the letter of the law, it is offside. I don't know why they don't just go by where player's feet are though, the game is called football.

You can’t score with your elbow last time I looked

[john e]

Best thing about that Torres performance yesterday was i always think sometimes it takes a couple of games for returning players to get up to speed but he was straight back to his superlative best