Post match Villa 2 Burnley 1

[Max Villan]

"Quietest and flattest atmosphere in years"...really? Sounds like recency bias. There's been plenty of half-empty Villa Park nil-nils or defeats when we were shite with a mediocre manager and it's felt like a morgue.

Recency bias 🤣🤣  ?? Ok.
50 plus years of being a ST holder gives me memory of some very quiet matches and periods.
As for as today is concerned, I maintain, from where I sit, it felt subdued and flat until about 70 mins.

Still, when you get to my age, a bit of p&q can be quite welcome.

Sunday 2pm games have always been a bit a flat though, I find. Especially against teams yo're expecting to beat.

[paul_e]

He was too busy shoving one of their players, if he'd ignored him and watched the ball he'd easily have punched it clear.

Spot on!

Having just watched the highlights, I agree.

The Buendia incident looked far worse on TV than I'd initially thought too.

Big Emi - maybe but the guy was all over him the corner before so I can understand it and that doesn't change the fact that we let the guy have a free header in the middle of the goal. Rather than blaming anyone individually I think it just needs to go down as a lapse from the whole team in a game where we were otherwise dominant.

[olaftab]

Just seen the highlights and elbow in the face was definitely  a red card. If ref didn't see it what's the point of VAR?

[olaftab]

Bogarde looks like he’s gained a yard of pace to me, he runs away from players now.

Maybe he’s been coached?

[ROBBO]

Bogarde did very well, suprised with his agression he relly gets stuck in. Thought with the changes we went into preservation mode which gave them some encouragement. Whats with our two new players not getting a run? Rogers better but his lay offs especially to Watkins was awful. Three points against probably the weakest side we've seen for a while.

[Garyth]

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 Whats with our two new players not getting a run?
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Remember when Tielemans arrived, and it took him ages to get a good run in the team? I suspect it may be as simple as that.