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Especially when followed by the Chelsea performance. 2 brilliant performances on the bounce shows that we are capable of producing some fantastic high paced football and give any team something to think about. It's no coincidence that 2 of our worst performances (well, 1 and a half, excluding the second half of Liverpool) were our home games, and our best showings were away. We're more than capable of bossing this one, but it really depends on how we hold up defensively.

I'm still wondering what Lambert is gonna do with him in terms of what his position will be, and I really wanna see him get more game time. I was really excited when we signed him to see what sort of impact he was gonna make and I've yet to really understand where he will play. Give him a go Lambo!

Saturday's game will have given them a kick up the arse. I'm sure they were aware that it wasn't good enough, and now that Lambo has pointed out how ridiculously slowly we start, hopefully they will pummel the living daylights out of Norwich from the first whistle to make up for it. None of this passing back to Guzan and hoofing it up to Benteke business, just keep running forward and don't give Norwich too much space. 

If we don't get something out of this, then I'm afraid that it will be a rather large blow to the optimism. 

Absolutely devastated. Feel so sorry for him, just as he was getting the season up and running.

Unfortunately, I really can't see Lambert signing anyone to cover him. I reckon he'll say that he has enough faith in Clark and Baker to cover him and that he's not worried. It'd be really helpful if we did get someone in. If Clark and/or Baker picks up a knock then we're in the poo, as I think it'd be too much pressure on Donacien and I'd prefer Bacuna to actually start to become comfortable in a position so that he can progress.

I guess we'll see.

Finally, Redskins TD. Enough time to bring it back.......

Very disappointing first half for the Redskins. We're gonna need one hell of a comeback. Sloppy sloppy sloppy 

Bloody hell 'Skins, wake up!

He left an unholy amount of space yesterday. Towards the end of the game Ben Arfa was just toying with him and making us look daft. I've noticed it in every game but his handy ability to get forward so well has made up for it. Unfortunately that wasn't the case yesterday so that's all that I kept noticing. The missed goal opportunity was another "ffs" moment. He had a very similar chance when we played Liverpool in the game previous; attempting a pass rather than having a go. It's nice to see that he's unselfish but when a chance like that comes along and he's in the best position to have a go, he needs to just trust his foot and have a shot.

He's had more good games than bad so far, in my opinion, so hopefully he was just (along with most of the squad) having a bad one and will shake it off and do better next week.

Very hard game to watch. It's a shame because this was one of the games that we had down as one that we'd get something from, and it's a kick in the shaft when it's been crossed off of the calendar and we don't have anything to show for it. That's what makes a defeat so hard to take. I can't say that the team didn't put the effort in today as they worked their socks off like they usually do, but we really need to sharpen up. There were so many misplaced passes and bad decisions made that cost us, and a lot of them were when we were building up to something positive. 

Starting games is something we really need to sort out. We now have the opposite problem to what we had last season (when we used to start strongly and then throw it away), and we're taking far too long to settle down. Every league match so far has seen us take the damage within 20 minutes, and now it's at the point where we almost wait for the opposition to score the opener just to get it out of the way. Chasing the game so early is just adding to the pressure and tiring us out quicker. 

Kozak for El Ahmadi was a bit confusing. It would have made a sense a little later on, but it felt as though Lambo just had that one corner in mind and was desperate to get the equaliser. After that, it just took the shape out of the midfield. It seemed as though, as we got closer to their box, nobody really knew what to do, which showed because it often ended up with us needlessly giving the ball away.

We just looked very off of it today. Nothing was really happening. All of that said, I'm not gonna panic and assume that we're doomed and that there's been no change, because there has, and hopefully this will just be one of those off games that we can forget about. It's just a shame that it happened to be this one.

Just hope that Newcastle don't do any damage during our 15-20 minute 'settling in' period that we always have at the start. It'd be nice if we scored during that time for a change!

Apart from Zigic, I could not name 1 of their player's. Shit team, shit club.

Yet I'm sure they could name all of ours, and our reserves, and all of our upcoming fixtures for this season. It's quite hilarious

They really struggled to beat Yeovil the last 2 times that they met. They're gonna need some sort of miracle in order to stay up, but knowing them 3 other teams will somehow have a worse run of form and go down instead. They deserve to go down, at the very best they're a League 1 side at the moment. It all looks very gloomy down the sty.....

Doesn't really help when we don't really have a squad full of likeable characters. So many bad attitudes in there.

Fair play to him!

Not a great start for the Redskins. 3rd and 4th quarters much more encouraging though. Threw that one away.

Oops, apologies. I'd just heard that he'd been dropped and assumed that it was true (probably because I expected something like that to end up happening if, god forbid, a top 6 team gets beaten on the opening day haha!).

It's still a shame that Lambo was punished when Wenger also criticised the refereeing after the Arsenal game. Like Lambo said himself, they're game changing decisions, especially when they're as obvious as that, it's frustrating. Regardless of the fine though, the fact that he drew attention to it in the first place might make Kevin Friend be a bit nicer to us next time 

Not really followed the NFL much, but I've been wanting to get into it a little more so I'm gonna try and do that this season. Redskins fan from now on 

Definitely one of the buys this summer that's had the most immediate and significant impact. The fact that he's so composed makes me feel very confident that he'll deal with any dangers. Obviously, he's not gonna be able to deal with every single ball in our half, but I feel a hell of a lot more relaxed when he's on the pitch, which is massively important to get from a defender.

Utterly brilliant 

Exactly. I would be willing to bet that if a top 6 club would have signed him, the papers would have been obsessed with that statistic. Oh well, it makes it a lot sweeter if we defy everyone's expectations of us this season and really give them something to write about.

I don't really understand the exclusion of VP. It's not like we're a small-time club with a small stadium, Villa Park is an important stadium with an important history. Come on FIFA ffs

Lower league clubs/anyone outside of the top 6 just aren't fashionable enough for Sky.

However, speaking of more media crap, the Daily Mail have added a lovely little tag on the end of the title to their latest Villa article.

"Aston Villa sign Lazio Striker Kozak (who failed to score a single goal in Italy last year)"

There really is no need.

We have a lot more options now, something we didn't have so much last season, and it's nice to have the chance to rest players if we need to. I assume that Lambo will see how this lot does for a couple of months before making a few more tweaks to it in January. If by then he feels that a midfielder is priority, then I'm sure he'll find one.

According to twitter, West Ham are in for Boudebouz...