Aston Villa v Bournemouth Post Match Thread.

[Proposition Joe]

I believe the phrase rhymes with "clucking bell".

We weren't quite on it today, and against teams like this that are organised and well coached this is what happens if you're not on it. We gave possession away too often after taking the lead. I wonder too if Unai would have made as many subs if it weren't for all the yellow cards.

[Smirker]

BTW that was definitely a handball from Bailey and we were so lucky that wasn't given as a pen.

[Olneythelonely]

Giving a team 3/4 free kicks in the same position, within 5 minutes, with our lack of ability to defend set pieces was asking for trouble. Our subs made us a lot worse for a change.

Massively frustrating and feels like a defeat.

[Goldenballs]

Grrrrrrr.

They're a good team but that's frustrating as fuck. Could see it coming when we stopped being able to keep possession and hacked them down at every opportunity.

[Jon Crofts]

Sooner Cash is sold the better.

[edgysatsuma89]

BTW that was definitely a handball from Bailey and we were so lucky that wasn't given as a pen.

It wasn't, as accidental as it gets.

[Olneythelonely]

BTW that was definitely a handball from Bailey and we were so lucky that wasn't given as a pen.

He wasn’t even looking at the ball and just missed his header. It’s never a pen.

[eamonn]

Needed a couple of wise heads in the last ten minutes to slow it down and win fouls, not concede them. Unfortunately McGinn was off the pitch, he's probably not a 90 minute player for us no more.

Bournemouth kept threatening and deserved it. Disappointing that Emery couldn't change the flow. As someone said, on here yesterday, Iraola is possibly our next manager. Decent audition from him.

[Risso]

Sooner Cash is sold the better.

What exactly did he do wrong?

The Bailey 'handball' was far more of a handball than Cash's, so feels like we got away with that. Overall that feels like two points absolutely thrown away.

[Percy McCarthy]

Every time they made a move to get a cross in from the right-hand side we seemed to foul them, thereby giving them a chance to get more men forward and more time to get a better cross in. We should have just let them get the crosses in from open play while under pressure from defenders.

[RichardBatchelor]

Sooner Cash is sold the better.

What exactly did he do wrong?

The Bailey 'handball' was far more of a handball than Cash's, so feels like we got away with that. Overall that feels like two points absolutely thrown away.

Quite. He had Semenyo in his pocket until needlessly fouling him. When that free kick came to nothing I thought we’d done it, but no.

[Beard82]

To be honest second half we werent great.  First half we were excellent at times, but didnt take our chances. 

Second half we struggled and the game got scrappy - but still should have scored at least 1 more. 

In the league we create plenty of chances, but miss too many of them, and are too easy to score against.   

[rooboy316]

We played some nice, sharp stuff today, albeit without the killer final ball or finish. On another day we’d be 2/3 up and coasting.

As good as some of our performances have been this season, we’ve also spent a lot of time looking like we aren’t getting out of 2nd gear.

[RichardBatchelor]

I believe the phrase rhymes with "clucking bell".

We weren't quite on it today, and against teams like this that are organised and well coached this is what happens if you're not on it. We gave possession away too often after taking the lead. I wonder too if Unai would have made as many subs if it weren't for all the yellow cards.

We deliberately gave it away as we elected to go long ball and sit on what we had. Not sure why we did that, but we lost our shape with all the subs on.

[dorsetvillian]

I find it really odd that we are a possession based team but once the goal went in we just went long giving the ball back to Bournemouth at every opportunity. Martinez never went short once after getting the lead. Same last week at Fulham. I'm assuming this is coming from the coaching team but for the life of me I can't understand the reasoning. Keep possession and we win that easily.