TRO Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Richards can't play CB Ooops 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godders Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Good result. Happy with the fact that we look like we've now got players capable of playing football. As it stands, looks like Sherwood's first transfer window has been a success. Looking forward to what this team can do after they've played a few more games together and with Gil & Grealish playing as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Can't wait for carles eel to be fit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Get the **** in you little beauties! Up The Villa xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivilla Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Can't read too much into today, touch of luck as well. See how we perform against our Manc nemesis come Friday night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted August 8, 2015 Author Administrator Share Posted August 8, 2015 For those that don't know. You can vote for man of the match in the other thread even though it's locked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NulliSecundus Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Beamin' :-DBeamin' :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macandally Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Dropped into the match thread at half time, there are some right drama queens in there. Anyone would think we were relegated at half time. This team will take time to bed in. Not sure about Gabby central, think Sinclair would have done a better job in there. Ayew struggled a bit and first half we were a little lethargic which was disappointing. We did look pretty good at the back although still desperate at times. We knew it would take a while for this team to gel, good to get a result when we are still early in that process 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poitier Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 When we played Bournemouth the other year they completely outplayed us for the first 45 mins, that didn't really happen at any point today even though we were fortunate to go in level. Good performances from several players, I think the only real disappointments were Ayew and Sinclair, although he did well defensively first half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponky Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Gueye was brilliant in the second half. Was everywhere. Amavi looked fabulous also but probably needs to settle a bit and learn when to take the obvious option. That goal from Rudy was written in the stars. We lacked a link between midfield and forward today, but that will come when Grealish and/or Gil return. That defence will get absolutely slaughtered against Man Utd next week. Richards and Clark are brilliant in the air but as soon as it hits the deck we look like headless chickens in the box. Bacuna was badly exposed by Gradel when he came on and given neither he nor Richards is particularly sound position-wise it could be an achilles heel for us. Great start to the season though and I can't wait to see this lot carve up Sunderland's geriatric incompetent defence in a few weeks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onmeedson Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Richards Motm , clark looks ok when babysat and this could be a pair for the future. that Rudy bloke will do for me, left back looked ok and midfield reasonable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedClaretAndBlue Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Sinclair slowed play up too much, had chances to beat his man at pace but kept bottling it allowing himself to get crowded out. Think with a run in the side though he will get a few this season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 32% thought that was a poor performance and 16% very poor! Christ knows how you would have marked it if we'd lost. And I'm assuming this 48% have had brainfades and totally forgotten just how dire we were last season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villadude Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Crap first half, much better second half. Up the Villa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
82Villan Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Well for a newly molded team to get the win away at the best side in the championship is exceptional. Erm, clam down mate. Without getting carried away (we won away on the opening day of the last couple of seasons too) I think that as the season progresses and Bournemouth start to pick up some scalps at home, we will look back at this result and think yeah, we've done pretty well there. Especially considering the work-in-progress nature of the current rebuild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Literally every prediction I saw in the media had us down to lose this one. Very satisfying response! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a m ole Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Richards can't play CB Ooops Not sure if you realise that was my point or not! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 Literally every prediction I saw in the media had us down to lose this one. Very satisfying response! So did most on here. Apart from me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 32% thought that was a poor performance and 16% very poor! Christ knows how you would have marked it if we'd lost. And I'm assuming this 48% have had brainfades and totally forgotten just how dire we were last season. Overall it was a poor performance which is even more satisfying that we won. We can only get better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobler Posted August 8, 2015 Share Posted August 8, 2015 (edited) I think it's obvious that Sherwood told the players to sit back in the first half. We all expected Bournemouth to fly out the traps, really being on a high from their promotion but it never really happened and I think it was right for us to be cautious and slow the pace of the game. By half time we could see that Bournemouth weren't particularly doing what we thought, so it was time to turn it on and in the end we got it right. I'm positive because looking at the lack of quality in the teams around us (Norwich, Sunderland etc) we've brought in a much higher quality of players than the Lambert era and if we keep a fairly fit squad together we should have enough this season to win these sort of games and have a fairly comfortable season. Edited August 8, 2015 by nobler 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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