Fulham 1-2 Aston Villa post match pint

[Martyn Smith]

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.

Big mistake from Lenglet for their goal unfortunately. Playing out of position so lost his bearings a bit I'd say but he simply  has to block off the forward getting anywhere near Martinez or the ball. Martinez would usually be a bit more decisive and Cash should be blocking the cross in the first place.  Thought Torres was at fault for that Traore chance at end watching it end, got caught behind his defensive line and played Traore on. Brilliant from Martinez.

I guess if you were told pre game Fulham would only score one goal you would have fancied us to win. We create plenty of chances to score nearly every game.

Lenglet was in a position to clear the ball, so must have got a call from Martinez to leave it.  Think Emi probably just misjudged it and didn't get there in time.

For me he has to block off the forward regardless of what Martinez was at.

Yeah you clear the danger and just take an earful from the keeper if you have to. You don't leave a mess that you can clear up on someone else's promise

[Martyn Smith]

Just watched the app highlights after having seen MOTD last night (had been on Extreme Score Avoidance up to then). The latter didn't show either of the first two offside goals (one each).Ollie's offside is immensely frustrating after such a great build up. He is a mile off. I thought he'd cut that out of his game since growing a football brain...

[PaulWinch again]

Just watched the app highlights after having seen MOTD last night (had been on Extreme Score Avoidance up to then). The latter didn't show either of the first two offside goals (one each).Ollie's offside is immensely frustrating after such a great build up. He is a mile off. I thought he'd cut that out of his game since growing a football brain...

Weird to pick that out given what else he did, and the quality he did exhibit with the two goals he did score. Everyone has a lapse occasionally.

[baddowvillans]

Just watched the app highlights after having seen MOTD last night (had been on Extreme Score Avoidance up to then). The latter didn't show either of the first two offside goals (one each).Ollie's offside is immensely frustrating after such a great build up. He is a mile off. I thought he'd cut that out of his game since growing a football brain...

You do realise he scored two fantastic goals don't you? 

[Clampy]

By the sound of it, I dont think he even realises we won.

[Ian.]

It would be like moaning about Emi being at fault for their goal, or Dougie not taking a shot when he should have, or Tielemans not burying his chance made by Ollie.

In every game there’s always something, however we won and it was great performance and they all dug in deep and worked hard and played some really good football. Ollie was fantastic and played a blinder.

[LeonW]

Ollie was excellent yesterday. A very good performance indeed - by both him and the team. Was important to get the win but how we did it was impressive too.

[Risso]

Ollie’s second was absolutely thunder twatted into the net, brilliant finish. He made it look much easier than it was.

[Beard82]

Ollie Watkins was the difference yesterday.  He’s very good and keeps getting better.  He’s not perfect - But if he was much better he wouldn’t be at Villa. 

Behind the world class strikers of which there are very few - he’s there with the Isaks ,  Wilson and Toney and is probably the best suited of all of them to the way we play. 

Are main issue in that position isn’t him - it’s that we only have him

[stevo_st]

Ollie also finished off the offside chance well as well.
Was particularly impressed with Ollie yesterday, especially towards the end of the game when started playing it long to him, he was excellent

[Nunkin1965]

Just watched the app highlights after having seen MOTD last night (had been on Extreme Score Avoidance up to then). The latter didn't show either of the first two offside goals (one each).Ollie's offside is immensely frustrating after such a great build up. He is a mile off. I thought he'd cut that out of his game since growing a football brain...

You do realise he scored two fantastic goals don't you?

To be honest I was going to post about this earlier, but then thought what's the point?
If you have issues with one of the best strikers in the league and the amount he contributes to us then I'm baffled.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

By the sound of it, I dont think he even realises we won.

If he thinks Ollie was less than perfect yesterday then what about that carthorse Haaland ?
Missed at least three good chances, scored two less, and they didn't win.

[VillaTim]

Tough Crowd.

[Dogtanian]

I had the Villa TV full replay on this morning while I worked, and I had to laugh when Taylor said something like “can you believe some people knock Ollie Watkins”.

He’s literally the best bloody striker we’ve had in a long time, our third highest scorer in the Premier League in less than four seasons, and on almost 20 goals this campaign with still at least 15 games left to play.

If he ain’t good enough for you, fuck knows what would be, and that’s all your problem, not his.

[VILLA MOLE]

He is also getting better and i think that will continue