Ratings & Reactions: Villa v Bournemouth

[Ouchmefoot]

FFS That was like old Villa, conceding at the end. What a **** joke, 2 seconds to go

[ianifratti]

Bournemouth deserved a point . We failed to keep possession and kill the game off after we scored 

[jimmygreaves]

Their keeper MOTM.

[villa4europe]

1 minute ago, Keyblade said:

Who would be delighted with that and why?

Because we don't all agree that every ref every week is the worst ref in the history of football

[ozvillafan]

Last minute of the game. Tavernier going nowhere and covered by Cash.

What in the living hell was Barkley thinking giving away an obvious foul?

And that what kind of marking was that in the box?

Frustrating.

[Digavilla]

The last 6-8 mins , why can’t we play out from the back , instead of Martinez hoofing his goal kick & everytime they win the ball drived down our right , I count at least 3-4 times that happens..

[VillaChris]

Bad dropping of two points there.

Probably all the yellows today meant we got sucked into just fouling players instead of trying to keep the ball but we had a let off with the free kick they took just before the 1-1.

Not winning enough home games currently to be confident of replicating last season currently.

[the_eristic]

Completely switched off after the goal. Got too readily caught up in the fouling game.

[Khizzy]

Load of absolute crap. Spent too long trying to thread the ball through a needle and gave away too many soft fouls and yellows. Should have ran away with that but luck finally ran out there. Have to beat the likes of Bournemouth with their poor away record. 

[Lerner's Driver]

Just now, ianifratti said:

Bournemouth deserved a point . We failed to keep possession and kill the game off after we scored 

Absolutely correct. Spread cheeks. Not okay.

[villa4europe]

3 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

They're underrated for sure 

Dropping points Vs Ipswich is one thing but Bournemouth are a decent top ten chasing team 

Should add, this whole won't get top four dropping points to Bournemouth stuff....they beat arsenal last week!

[UpTheVilla26]

Should of buried them with the chances we had. 

These games happen though. 

After scoring we totally lost our shape. We'd have been better getting Carlos on and going 5-4-1 to see it out. 

Bailey is adding nothing to our team at the moment, Barkley shouldn't have to be out on the right making tackles with a minute to go. 

As for the ref, literally every foul resulted in a yellow. Didn't let anything go at all. 

[foreveryoung]

Just now, allani said:

You mean Bournemouth who beat Arsenal last weekend.  It's going to be interesting which teams finish Top 4 if both they and us are ruled out of doing so...

We run 3 quarters of the game, missed 4 good chances. You gotta be better than this if you wanna stay up with the big boys.

[Pongo Waring]

What a missed opportunity. Spurs and Liverpool next 

[Farlz]

Only ourselves to blame. Final ball was atrocious and the Maatsen/Barkley double sub killed is, completely lost all control.

Not good enough. 

[Leeroy]

I'm sorry but regardless of whether Bournemouth beat 10 man Arsenal this isn't a good result at home. Bournemouth will finish probably 11th or 12th so we're droppoing points at home to a bottom half team. And then dropping points to teams like Ipswich who will probably go down.

 

It basically means we'll need to win one of our three tough away games next month as well as beating Palace at home to stay on track IMO. If we don't we'll fall down to 7th or 8th and have tough games in December too.

 

The worst thing about today is we have a fully available squad other than Philogene. We have plenty of options on the bench. We should have been winning today.

[Beastmix]

Some of the worst refereeing I've seen in a while.

Might as well had glued the yellow card to his hand.

Fair doos to Bournemouth for not giving up, but we should have been controlling possession in the final 15mins.

[allani]

3 minutes ago, Leeroy said:

Absolute shit. Still only one clean sheet all season.

 

Why when we go in front do we let the other team have loads of the ball and not just hold on to it and go for the jugular? It pisses me off.

 

Poor result and now three of our next 4 games are really tough.

You are aware of the fact that over the last two seasons (or season and a bit) we are in fact the best (maybe now the second best) in the PL in terms of fewest points dropped from a leading position.  Imagine how the fans of all the other teams must feel....

[AVTuco]

Olsen saves that.

[CVByrne]

Dropping points like that is costly. We are making a nack of it after Champions League games. Very frustrating. Hopefully we put it right soon.