Fulham v Aston Villa post-match thread

[Ads]

Absolute nothing game. Abraham should have scored. A more distracted performance you'll seldom witness.

[PaulWinch again]

Absolute nothing game. Abraham should have scored. A more distracted performance you'll seldom witness.

Let’s hope that’s what it was and they are switched on in the next few.

[Crown Hill]

Well it is absolutely true the first half was deliberately played at a snail’s pace and the substitutions happened regardless of the game situation. So hopefully Unai did have one eye on the semi despite what he said before the game.

We are clearly at our best when we up tempo. We’ve seen that so many times this season. Hopefully the game plan will allow us spells to do this at Forest.

Their defence is weak and they are missing a key centre half. I suspect Mings will play and Maatsen.

[eye digress]

We are clearly at our best when we up tempo. We’ve seen that so many times this season. Hopefully the game plan will allow us spells to do this at Forest.

Think it’s more of a slow-slow-quick thing. For example, against Fulham, the Rogers chance in the first half and Watkins in the second, were both the product of very sudden accelerations (with McGinn at the heart of the change of pace).

That’s why I wasn’t terribly disheartened yesterday. Although we didn’t create loads of chances, the degree of thrust we had on those we did eek out was impressive, and (like at Forest), we had only ourselves to blame for not taking those gilt edged chances.

On a side note, I didn’t even feel excessively critical of Ollie’s wastefulness. Back in October when he could barely put one foot in front of the other, we’d have been overjoyed with wasteful.

[eamonn]

Silva was very complimentary in his post-match talking about how we are so strong at making a chance from nothing through quick passes through the middle.

[Crown Hill]

We had a twenty minute spell in the second half when the one touch passing was sublime and led to the Watkins chance them the Tammy chance.

But there was none of the usual Unai gesticulations to raise rhetorical tempo.

I think we had a go but deliberately played within ourselves.

I think the “clinical” remark was more about defending the game plan.

I hope we’ll be much brighter and more combative at Forest!