Aston Villa v Bournemouth Post Match Thread.

[tomd2103]

McPhee will be in for another bollocking.

We just had to concentrate for a few more seconds. How Evanilson got to that header before any defender I'll never know.

Cash got a few for it and will get a roasting in the dressing room.  Emery and McPhee were going mad at him to get into position before they took that free kick, Konsa was having a go at him after it and then McPhee was after the final whistle.

[PaulWinch again]

Bournemouth looked a limited side who didn't lay a glove on us, until we gave them free kicks in the last 6 minutes, because we decided we no longer wanted to pass our way through their weak press as we had done for the previous 90.

Emery will strip fucking paint off the dressing room for that. You can't be dropping too many points at home like that.

Agree it was a sloppy conclusion to a game we should have won.

We’re in an interesting spot, we’re third but have only played 2 of the current top 10. The coming weeks will be big. You look at our squad and it’s fantastic we need to start delivering complete performances in the league, and getting rid of these sloppy phases.

[KRS]

Felt we pretty much dominated the whole game but we weren’t clinical in front of goal and paid the price for it at the end. At no point did I think Bournemouth were good enough to put us under any serious pressure and we were comfortable defending their token attempts at attacking throughout…until the last few seconds of the game.

Side note: that was in no way a dirty game, and the ref dishing out 13 yellow cards was pathetic.

[brontebilly]

Ceded control last ten minutes. Whether’s that fatigue or trying to defend what we had I don’t know. Not going to blame just Barkley as it was the third or fourth in a series of stupid fouls. Grrrrrr

Agreed, we were falling over the line last 10 mins or so. Duran and Bailey were a liability in that time when we needed them to hold the ball up. We gave away some amount of stupid freekicks in dangerous areas and no surprise the goal came for it. That last change from Emery didn't work either, Barkley was playing well in midfield but was lost further up. So frustrating, their keeper made some blinding saves, Duran missed a sitter. But Bournemouth were always in the game I thought. Motm was Ramsey, thought he was excellent.

[Beard82]

I wonder if this sees the end of the cash right back experiment.   

[Demitri_C]

We're one point worse off than last season.

We need to win the next two to be ahead at 11 games.

This and Ipswich were definitely two points dropped.

One point worse off but played harder games. The next four  are toughies

Keep clean sheets in the league ffs !! This is whats costing us dearly

[Villan82]

It feels to me like we have a much stronger squad this year compared to last season. Equally, however, I think our best eleven from September, October, November and December 2023 would beat us right now.

I don't know if it's a case of us not quite 'clicking' the same way we did 12 months ago or if, as some of us suspected, both Luiz and Diaby were real quality players to lose and possibly brought something to the pitch that has been difficult to replace. Edit, for example, it's the kind of game today where Luiz would pop up with a goal and maybe Diaby would have a burst of pace that could change the game.

I'm very happy overall, especially with us being so hard to beat, but it would be great to replicate that unbelievable form of 2023.

[Ads]

It doesn't matter how many points we had at this stage last season, we're fighting this campaign.

[VillaTim]

Awful finishing and atrocious game management last 15 mins have cost us dearly. Yes their keeper made saves but they were "TV camera" saves as we put efforts in his comfort zone instead of hitting either side of him . We will just have to go and win at Spurs now. Rest them all for palace and play the fringe players and kids .

[PaulTheVillan]

I thought their penalty shout could have gone either way. Always seems to be Cash.

[Demitri_C]

It feels to me like we have a much stronger squad this year compared to last season. Equally, however, I think our best eleven from September, October, November and December 2023 would beat us right now.

I don't know if it's a case of us not quite 'clicking' the same way we did 12 months ago or if, as some of us suspected, both Luiz and Diaby were real quality players to lose and possibly brought something to the pitch that has been difficult to replace. Edit, for example, it's the kind of game today where Luiz would pop up with a goal and maybe Diaby would have a burst of pace that could change the game.

I'm very happy overall, especially with us being so hard to beat, but it would be great to replicate that unbelievable form of 2023.

We look worse defensively than last year and i agree we are missing diaby and luizs goals/assists. Dont think we have really replaced diaby. Zero league goals for bidace so far and baileys the same.

[VillaTim]

Rogers finishing will be brought into question soon unless he starts converting .

[Proposition Joe]

I thought their penalty shout could have gone either way. Always seems to be Cash.

Cash always seems to frantic or hectic, and the fact that he was chugging a Red Bull in the tunnel before the game probably doesn't help. Cash the berserker.

[Smithy]

We were less than one inch from being deservedly 1-0 up and would likely have pushed on from that, and Duran missed the target when given a free hit by the penalty spot - these are things that on another day go our way and we win 3-0.  I'm disappointed, and a bit annoyed at the defending for their goal at the death, but I can also see it wasn't a bad performance.

We need to start being more clinical, hopefully starting with the next two games.

[Flamingo Lane]

I was furious, still am, that we used added time to give them set piece practice. Totally needless free kicks we were giving away.