Ratings & Reactions: Bournemouth v Villa

[Dale]

That was poor. Terrible defending and Goalkeeping for both their goals. Need to get winning. There's still something about this team fortunately. 

[flashingqwerty]

Our January recruitment needed to be amazing to save us.

It wasn't.

We're going down for sure.  Too many passengers, and a head coach, who doesn't seem to know how to coach his team.

Same issues todays as we've had all season long.

Meh...

[RobSpain]

Normal service has again resumed

Tickets are cheaper in the championship though right?

[holteend1982]

Bournemouth done the double over us. Embarrassing really. 

[Ouchmefoot]

Just shite all the way through. Can't string more than two passes together in the final third. We are going down on that performance

[a m ole]

abysmal first half.

how does var not give a penalty for a keeper punching a player in the face?

[Davkaus]

1 minute ago, penguin said:

Burgled both games.

Fair result today. They battered us in the first half, then incredibly dodgy refereeing gave us a man advantage for a third of the game. 

Could have had a penalty, but we were nowhere near as hard done by as they were. 

[the_eristic]

Pressing? Who needs it when you also can't pass.

[MaVilla]

1 minute ago, penguin said:

**** double over us. Burgled both games.

They didn't burgle both games, they beat us twice, let's stop blaming bad luck, we are 25 games in to the season now, we are past the stage of "we are unlucky......ALL THE TIME"

We lost cus we played sh*t and deserved to lose.

[Dale]

Just now, a m ole said:

abysmal first half.

how does var not give a penalty for a keeper punching a player in the face?

Also the Davis incident was exactly the same foul as Douglas Luiz v Watford. 

We need to work out how to play against ten men. 

[Humanoid]

A performance worthy of relegation

[Robtaylor200]

Not good enough and not pushing hard enough. Some of them hardly panting at the end. that's not because they are fit, its because they dont work hard enough

[Davkaus]

1 minute ago, RobSpain said:

Normal service has again resumed

Tickets are cheaper in the championship though right?

Away tickets aren't, and I'm sure they'll put season tickets up to account for the "extra games" again (never go down when we come up, mind).

Don't forget to buy your premium Claret membership.

[Newry_Villan]

Think the ref bottled giving us a penalty even though Engels blatantly punched in the face. 

[Nigel]

Id love to know Smiths reasoning for taking off Anwar when Davis was bought on.

Surely playing a nervous relegation threatened team, who were never going to commit men forward, taking Hause off was the only option?

Love the bloke but you need to be more proactive in these situations!

 

[Ouchmefoot]

Officiating was awful. It was never a second yellow for them and since when is it OK to punch a player in the face. when the ball is 2 metres away

[MaVilla]

Just now, Nigel said:

Id love to know Smiths reasoning for taking off Anwar when Davis was bought on.

Surely playing a nervous relegation threatened team, who were never going to commit men forward, taking Hause off was the only option?

Love the bloke but you need to be more proactive in these situations!

 

Cus Ghazi was anonymous and wa*k.....???

[villalad21]

Copy of the game at VP.

Said this before. The formation was never the issue to begin with. The lack of desire and fight was always the issue.

Never liked 5 at the back because it removes a spot for an additional forward player or midfielder.

[Smartin]

Tactics way off today. Marv and Luiz back to being weak as in midfield. Looking for positives are that I think we will continue picking up points at home and I thought Davis did well when he came on, and Samatta is decent.

Guilbert had a shocker. Did he actually manage to get a cross in?

[Awol]

Normally reliable players had a stinker today (Mings and Guilbert especially) but too little quality and not enough desire all round - with exception of Jack who is keeping us alive almost singlehandedly. 

Bournemouth fought harder for the majority of the game and deserved the win. Pleased for Samatta but Luiz and Nakamba went from amazing in Leicester game to garbage today, against worse opposition. How?