Aston Villa v Chelsea Match Thread

[dutchvilla]

Bailey and Watkins have been better. Buendia not.

Is there a bigger tosser in the league than Enzo Fernandez?

[TonyD]

I want to see the lines and all evidence for both of those goals. I'm not even joking. Not some fucking cartoon character dreamt up in the sky. His foot was off in the freeze frame.

Yep he was clearly offside. 

[PaulWinch again]

Let’s consign the myth that we look rock solid defensively with Mings in there to the bin. We don’t. How three players allowed Fernandez to make that pass is beyond me.

[Ianu]

Same old same old. One frame forward Ollie's off. One frame back and Pedro is on. Someone in control of var gets to choose which frame just by using a mouse on a computer. It's open to corruption. I say it every fucking week. I'm sick of saying it. It's the whole reason we have semi automated and not fully automated.

Exactly. They not only need to show us the final frame but the point they take that frame.

It looked off to me

[Ian.]

Enjoyed that. Far more energy.


If Ollie was offside so was Pedro. Too bloody close and how do they know where to draw the cartoons.

[Mister E]

Fucking margins of offside don't disguise the fact that we were operating with 9 men for most of the half: Buendia has been shite, Onana not good and Bailey just disappeared.

[PeterWithesShin]

Hopefully we bring on Rogers second half.

[PaulWinch again]

Bailey and Watkins have been better. Buendia not.

Is there a bigger tosser in the league than Enzo Fernandez?

Can’t stand the little prick.

[Proposition Joe]

We turned over a 1 goal deficit at theirs. And our first half then was way worse than this one today.

[andyh]

Buendia is a fucking disgrace.
Half hearted, half arsed. Watch him, he makes half attempts at tackles, invariably loses and just stands and watches as the opponent runs away.  He has done that consistently all through the game.

[JUAN PABLO]

Our midfield is shit.

Without our best 2 players and captain it is

onana is  a 50 million pound supposedly , Luis will cost up 20 million and Buendia is just lightweight ....  Id expect better thou.

[Rigadon]

Aside from the apparent corruption, WIN A FUCKING TACKLE IN MIDFIELD FFS!!

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Same old same old. One frame forward Ollie's off. One frame back and Pedro is on. Someone in control of var gets to choose which frame just by using a mouse on a computer. It's open to corruption. I say it every fucking week. I'm sick of saying it. It's the whole reason we have semi automated and not fully automated.

100% agree. If the watkins goal was offside, so was that.

[itmustbe_it is!]

All this pseudo-accuracy about some part of the body being millimetres on or offside, but just as critical is the timing of the pass being made - we never get to see that, do we? I mean, is it when the foot first brushes the ball? When the ball first deforms due to pressure? Or when it moves ?

I genuinely can't believe they are accurate enough about that to justify this micrometer measuring of the lines. It's bollocks, that's what it is.

[caster troy]

Crunch time for Emery. 
He needs to make the right decisions at HT.

Will be no changes. Then Digne Sancho and Barkley on after 65 mins, Tammy about 85. Maybe a 5 min cameo for Alysson to finish off when we’re 3-1 down.