Bournemouth v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[CT Villan]

Second half was garbage. Mings and particularly Digne culpable for the goal. Our form is becoming a concern.

[frank black]

We no longer look like a team. Very disjointed, only standouts were Rogers, Martinez and Sancho. Bailey is a terrible player, it’s obvious why we loaned him out and begrudgingly recalled him.

[frank black]

Second half was garbage. Mings and particularly Digne culpable for the goal. Our form is becoming a concern.

I’d lay that blame firmly at Digne

[eamonn]

Digne for the goal was just inexplicably terrible. Mings too, just watched their guy run at the goal and shoot. It was like when your controller briefly loses connection while you're playing FIFA.

They both left it to each other. Shit happens, albeit this was explosive diarrhoea.

[PaulWinch again]

Bloody hell - we’re going through a tough patch of form, heavily influenced by injuries, but also just generally. It happens and it will happen to the teams behind us. A point at Bournemouth is a decent result, especially as we’re struggling a bit. We’ll get into better form soon and we’re very much still well placed for Champions League.

[JUAN PABLO]

This Alysson cant be any worse than Bailey. 

[garyellis]

We just have to tough out the next few weeks until we get most of our midfield back and firing.
A point at Bournemouth is a start, it is no easy place to visit.

[Crown Hill]

Not certain whether their scorer meant his shot. Strange finish at near post which fooled Emi.

He shanked it, wrong-footing Martínez but despite lil'Lee pointing it out, the commentator jizzed-on about how good it was.

Ah my commentary was German!

He sort of hit it with the outside of his foot but you never see a finish like that.

[Mister E]

... Bailey wouldnt get a game  at Harrogate playing like that Id prefer JJA coming on instead  ...

I'll let you know how he gets on at Whetherby Road.

[Mister E]

This Alysson cant be any worse than Bailey. 

KYoung also potentially offers more.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

All season our midfield has been the best in the league, maybe Europe, but It’s going to be very hard to rally us without McGinn, Kamara and Tielemans, but we’ve got to keep trying.

That was tough and Martinez and our centre backs kept us in the game.

We needed Onana to step up but he was mainly going through the motions and Dougie faded. Neither fill the boots of McGinn, Kamara or Tielemans. At least Bogaarde has a spring in his step and is very tidy. Bournemouth had a free rein in the centre of the park and used the flanks well. Both Cash and Digne had a tough afternoon with little help.

We're useless up front and Unai needs to take his watch in for a service bringing on Tammy for Watkins on 85 minutes was a joke. Sancho had his best 45 minutes first half, actually looked like a player, Buendia links up so beautifully with Rogers but his booking meant he was always on borrowed time. Rogers must be so frustrated playing in a team where he's our only real goal threat apart from the three balls into the six yard box in the first half where Watkins was caught in the wrong position every time. His greatest talent seems to be failing him. The thought of getting a decent fee for him in the summer are fading with every game. I think we need to see him coming off the bench in future, playing against tired defenders, it may suit him more.

Obviously Anthony **** Taylor was his usual pathetic self, once again the level of physicality wouldn't have been allowed last season. Bournemouth got away with murder from the first minute but he didn't seem to mind. Any time we mixed it up he was reaching for his cards, the tosser.

Overall, decent first half but piss poor second and that's without mentioning Leon Bailey except to say I wish we'd kept Young instead of sending him out on loan.

[Dante Lavelli]

Decent away point.  Performance sounds awful from the comments on here.  The BBC were a bit more complimentary.

Managed to rotate a few players so hopefully there’s some freshness in the legs versus Brighton.

[jwarry]

We were always going to win that until they scored and I’m sorry but WTF was Digne doing?? As soon as they scored our game plan went out of the window.  I imagine a certain manager won’t be happy

[Goldenballs]

This Alysson cant be any worse than Bailey. 

KYoung also potentially offers more.

Ashley Young offers more.

[taylorsworkrate]

It felt like Bournemouth were the team with something on the game and we were the team in midtable obscurity