Ratings & Reactions: Fulham v Villa

[Tomaszk]

20 hours ago, Hank Scorpio said:

He's injured and playing very badly with injections.

FTFY

[El Segundo]

I'd rate that a very calm and professional performance.  Didn't fall apart when we fell behind, calmly played our way into it and into a position where we were dominating and creating plenty of chances. 

Gave MOTM to Digne, with Ramsey close behind -  they were running Fulham ragged down the left while not allowing Traore to be much of a threat and putting some excellent balls across.   

Rogers finishing let him down again, he got lucky with the one he scored, but missed a sitter.  Great header from Olie.   Pau was far too weak for their goal.  Bailey got fouled twice in the first few minutes and didn't get the foul.  They were also doubling up on him a lot.

I sometimes despair of Cash and his propensity to do stupid things in our area - will he ever learn not to dive into unnecessary risky challenges or run around arms akimbo giving the officials a decision to make?  Yes the ball hit him from close range but he had no need or right to have his arms out like that.  I think that's something like 5 or 6 penalties he's now conceded for us, including our only two this season.  He's either very unlucky or has some bad habits.  

The ref: I think the pen was fair enough given where Cash's arms were, and the Fulham red card looked fair enough.  But the second yellow for Jaden was harsh.  We're told there is meant to be a higher threshold for second yellows and we've seen Rashford, Morsy and Upemacano do much worse against us and be let off in recent games.  No consistency again.

Edited October 20 by El Segundo

[BleedClaretAndBlue]

This is what Saturday 3pms were made for

Entertaining and open game, early goals, 2 red cards, penalty saves, the lot.

Massive win, keeps us with the pacesetters and further cementing ourselves as top 4 material. Arsenal and Chelsea losing will do nicely too.

3 comeback wins already now this season, something we haven’t excelled in for a long time.

Tielemans was just sublime, knits everything together as smoothly as you like. Thought Carlos was excellent for a 3rd straight game. Lucas Digne just keeps going from strength to strength.. I see a lot of players realising they have strong competition breathing down their neck's- and they’re all responding exactly how you want- with confident, solid performances.
 

Watkins goal was brilliant, 5 in 8 in the league for him now. Rogers, Ramsey looked dynamic and dangerous most the afternoon. Bailey was the obvious concern, just not been at it at all this season but hopefully he’ll click back into form at the right time with the tough games we have coming up on the horizon. Great to have everyone getting back now, the squad is as strong as ive ever seen it, really exciting times because we should have plenty more gears to go up yet.

Unai Emery continues to be a God, just an unbelievable time to be a Villan.

YT8 MOTM

[TRO]

20 hours ago, El Segundo said:

I'd rate that a very calm and professional performance.  Didn't fall apart when we fell behind, calmly played our way into it and into a position where we were dominating and creating plenty of chances. 

Gave MOTM to Digne, with Ramsey close behind -  they were running Fulham ragged down the left while not allowing Traore to be much of a threat and putting some excellent balls across.   

Rogers finishing let him down again, he got lucky with the one he scored, but missed a sitter.  Great header from Olie.   Pau was far too weak for their goal.  Bailey got fouled twice in the first few minutes and didn't get the foul.  They were also doubling up on him a lot.

I sometimes despair of Cash and his propensity to do stupid things in our area - will he ever learn not to dive into unnecessary risky challenges or run around arms akimbo giving the officials a decision to make?  Yes the ball hit him from close range but he had no need or right to have his arms out like that.  I think that's something like 5 or 6 penalties he's now conceded for us, including our only two this season.  He's either very unlucky or has some bad habits.  

The ref: I think the pen was fair enough given where Cash's arms were, and the Fulham red card looked fair enough.  But the second yellow for Jaden was harsh.  We're told there is meant to be a higher threshold for second yellows and we've seen Rashford, Morsy and Upemacano do much worse against us and be let off in recent games.  No consistency again.

clumsy and naive....doesn't seem to me, to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.

However, the rest of his game was ok.

Edited October 21 by TRO

[Vive_La_Villa]

On 19/10/2024 at 21:12, Jas10 said:

 

I love this guy. Hopefully continue to see him shouting that many times this season! 

[TRO]

On 20/10/2024 at 13:27, TRO said:

Me too, when I get my bloomin tickets.

Finally arrived today.

[TRO]

33 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

I love this guy. Hopefully continue to see him shouting that many times this season! 

Seems to love playing for us and determined to keep his shirt, love the attitude.

Shows what a bit of competition does.

Great against Fulham.

Edited October 21 by TRO

[Honest bunch of lads]

Great result, especially considering the injuries. Craven Cottage is underrated as far as difficult away games go, I think.