Fulham v Aston Villa post-match thread

[ajmant]

Haha!!

[RamboandBruno]

It’s the Villa way since seemingly forever. Anybody else realky worried about Wood on Thursday?

Im a turf man

[eye digress]

This was a similar performance to the Forest away game, I felt, with the same fine margins falling this time against us and the same lack of clinicalness in our finishing. Perhaps one difference was in the centre of the park, where we were weakened by Onana's absence.

[PaulWinch again]

This was a similar performance to the Forest away game, I felt, with the same fine margins falling this time against us and the same lack of clinicalness in our finishing. Perhaps one difference was in the centre of the park, where we were weakened by Onana's absence.

I think that one difference was fundamental thought. We looked disjointed and passive - whereas for good chunks of the game against Forest we battered them, we just didn’t have a clinical edge.

[KevinGage]

Onana has played in games where the opposition snapped at us like Fulham did today - most of the Palace games in recent memory.  And hasn't made a whole pile of difference. His passing tends to be even more erratic in those scenarios.

So not sure his absence is the reason why we phoned it in this afternoon.

[Matt C]

Felt like several of the Europa League group games where we played in first and second gear and did just enough to get the result without overly extending ourselves. Tougher to pull off that routine in the PL.