Bournemouth v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[saint13]

Just seen the goal for the first time. That is as poor a piece of "defending" that you wll ever see from Digne...pathetic. He just moved aside and let him run through unmolested.

[Hillbilly]

What happened in the first minute? The main camera wasn’t up with play and they didn’t show anything from another angle (on my feed anyway). I got the impression Olly Watkins was through and brought down.

Regardless, Watkins is painful to watch now.

[astonvilla82]

As normal teams like Bournemouth and Brentford will chase after the ball, while we intend to take a little jaunt around the pitch, one instance was when Watkins was running towards their goal with about 4 players after him on his own, while our lot took there time, which ended up him going to the corner flag without any support and fouling a Bournemouth player.we need to change the mindset that playing nice one two's don't always win you games

[tomd2103]

Didn't see the game earlier and waited for MOTD to see the goals.  Digne's effort to defend their goal was disgraceful.and Buendia's not much better.  It was almost like they had stopped as the whistle had been blown.

[ROBBO]

We started brightly enough and had chances to go two up but they dominated the second half and the question is why. We played like a tired side,Martinez long kick outs just went to their players and late in the game the times we gave the ball to them were numerous. I hope we hold out for the top five because miss out and Rogers will be off.

[Matt C]

Overly simplistic but thought  we were decent first half, not so much second. Bournemouth are a good side, particularly at their place.

We’ve had essentially the whole midfield wiped out in the space of a few weeks, it’s going to take a little time to adjust. We just need to get through this month intact - the next two home (league) games are absolutely pivotal.

[rooboy316]

Just saw the goal again. Absolutely bizarre from Digne.

I thought that initially… bizarre how easy it was. But then one of the replays showed Digne having a go at Buendia, and it seemed like the plan was Digne would take the outside while Buendia covered the cut back inside, which he didn’t.

Maybe I’m being too generous, but I can’t fathom why Digne would just watch him go past like that otherwise.