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Ayew looking up for it, but without the actual quality necessary.

All this long ball vs a Championship side... seems like a great idea. :^/

Half Tim, half ownership.

All the confidence we saw at the beginning of the season is being sapped out of him game by game, and that seed of doubt makes all the difference between success and failure. It's no longer "I'm going to take this guy on and beat him", but "Oh god, I have to make something happen, I hope I don't **** it up", which is doomed from the off. Familiar story with us, sadly.

Looked absolutely sick in the interview. At least good to see a player giving a ****.

Shoud've been taken off for Hutton as soon as we hit 2-0.

Quality.

Jog on, Tim. Either clueless or overconfident, probably both.

**** Sherwood. All we needed, yet again, were managerial decisions that weren't blatantly wrong. Charlatan.

What position is Ayew supposed to be playing? Get one of Gabby or Sinclair off and put an actual midfielder on ffs.

Carlos. Wat.

If any team could... ;^)

Somebody offering better movement in the box was what we were screaming for at the end there. Really should've been brought on.

Waste.

This whole 'Amavi wanted it' bit is also irrelevant to the question of whether it was the right or wrong option. Not it isn't. At all. Yes it is. Do you pass the ball to just anyone, in any position, just because they shout, or do you look to see if there are say, opposition players nearby? No it's not. You are posting a bad angled photo that shows less room than there really is. It also fails to show how wide open the 3 Villa players are in the middle. Here is an actual photo of when Amavi received the ball. Notice the 3 wide open players to his right that he could have easily passed to, but decided to dribble. How in the world this is Guzan's fault with evidence like this is beyond me. Well, yours is a fraction of a second before mine as well - he hasn't shaped onto his right foot yet, but whatever - but I don't need to quibble about camera angles. What happened is what happened, and we know the end result. Guzan rolled the ball out, Amavi made a poor touch and a bad decision, and the player who was bearing down on him robbed the ball off him. I've already said it's Amavi's fault that he chose to dribble, and that he made the wrong choice - I said so in the passage you've quoted above. Nothing's going to alter the fact that Dann was bearing down on him quickly and that, in this case, rolling the ball out was the wrong thing to do. I believe the facts clearly indicate the presence of a second shooter on the grassy knoll.

Would rather him take the shot himself more often at this point. Might as well with nobody making runs in front of him.

There were points in the second half where it was him trying to work the ball away from our box entirely by himself with three Palace players closing him down. Not one of our other players were coming anywhere near him to give him an outlet.

Doesn't look like he has the fitness to last 90 minutes at the moment. Didn't help that his strike partner supposed to be doing the running and playing off him... wasn't.

Once he actually got the ball, he tore their left side to pieces three times over. They couldn't even get close to him. If we'd had anybody else attacking the box properly, he probably would've created a second.

I detect a flaw in your premise. :^)

FTFM. We really do need a striker and another midfielder.

Gabby should never start again.

Why not for Gabby? :^/

Striker, Midfielder, Central Defender, in that order. Need for a goalscorer is obvious, midfielder perhaps less so, but for all the different guys we have, there isn't really depth to cover suspensions/injuries/fatigue without changing shape or shoehorning people into roles they don't really suit, defender would be nice but I think we're *probably* ok until Jan barring horrific luck. No idea who to consider for a striker, for mid Praet to me seems a no-brainer, he can play central, right, left, want to come here and 7M is nothing, would be ok with Lescott for a defender on a short term deal, Balanta long term if that interest was at all real.