FA Cup Villa (A) 8pm Friday 10 Jan

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  • LukerzLukerz
    Still same issues; Alvarez needs to be replaced - never has been good enough and still isn’t
  • stevesteve
    The 2 injures will hurt more then the result
  • chicagohammerchicagohammer
    Mavropanos- oh my - what was he playing at
  • stevesteve
    Now Dino is injured
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Mavropanos likely going off, I hope it's not concussion or he'll be out for the next 2 games and we might be down to 1 fit senior CB.
  • chicagohammerchicagohammer
    I was hoping that Potter just might have given Guilherme a start tonight
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Soler and Guilherme on for Alvarez and Mavropanos.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Poor touch by AWB when he was in a good position. When a weak shot by Ings is easily blocked.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Wild shot by Soler goes miles over.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Ings with a chance but blasts over.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Well jay, are you denying we were stitched up by the ref tonight?
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited January 10
    As I said before, the players have a lot to answer for. They have been woeful under Moyes & Lop, now have collapsed in 5 minutes under another manager.

    Positive first half. Signs of encouragement. Shocking call for the corner that turned the game, but the players collapsed again after that goal.

    Injuries, too. Potter has his work cut out.
  • MIAHammerMIAHammer
    Post match on ESPN - not one mention that it should not have been a corner.
  • chicagohammerchicagohammer
    edited January 10
    That was frustrating- overall I thought we made a decent fist of it, they came back at us and their first goal was a result of an appalling decision that was nowhere close to being a corner.

    Villa are a decent side but at the end of the day, they were poor first half and we were pretty poor in the second, the deciding factor was that they were better in the second than we were in the first.

    I am glad that we gave it a go at the end and finished on the front foot but it turned out being a tough night, especially given the injuries we incurred
  • BubblesNeverDiesBubblesNeverDies
    Despite the defeat I saw a much improved West Ham and, imo, if it hadn't been for the injuries we'd have won.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Not sure how we were stitched up. It was never a corner but we should still have defended it better. They were much better than us second half and we just can’t defend.
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited January 10
    We were much better defensively but the goals we gave away were way too cheap - as usual.

    Can’t blame Lop for that one.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited January 10
    thornburyiron said:

    Not sure how we were stitched up. It was never a corner but we should still have defended it better. They were much better than us second half and we just can’t defend.

    He gave the corner they scored from when it was clearly a goal kick. Stitched up, plain and simple.

  • BerlinHammerBerlinHammer
    We wouldn't have had to defend it if the corner wasn't given.
  • PengemanPengeman
    Ref makes an error, we concede from the resulting corner and heads drop and we cave in. We played OK for an hour but with Fullkrug and Summerville off we lost forward. Ings had chances but it wasn't his day. Disappointed with the result.

    Potter will have to look at the defence and midfield. Scarles had a good game. Will we have any forward to field in the next game?
  • jay_in_cptjay_in_cpt
    buffybegood said:

    Well jay, are you denying we were stitched up by the ref tonight?

    No denying it was a mistake, should never have been given…
    But, a bit more concerned with 2 further injuries.
    PL most important this season….
    Hopefully Potter would have learned a bit tonight about certain individuals….

  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    thorn, Whilst I agree we can’t, it seems defend, why then did we try to do that & not keep attacking in the second half? Too many have been moysed and have a defensive mindset.
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited January 10
    Ings our only striker

    Emerson, Areola, Todibo, Summerville, Bowen, Füllkrug, Antonio all injured. Worrying.
  • LukerzLukerz
    The Fulham game is huge. Another defeat & the new manager bounce never even begins.
  • MIAHammerMIAHammer
    Lukerz said:

    Ings our only striker

    Emerson, Areola, Todibo, Summerville, Bowen, Füllkrug, Antonio all injured. Worrying.

    And every club will know it when we come knocking.
  • stevesteve
    Trouble is what team can we put out Against a very good Fulham team
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    I think we were forced to defend more in the second half because Villa woke up but our defenders seem bang average at best. Kilman joined as a marquee signing but so often he is beaten to the ball at crucial moments by an alert forward. He was stood on his heels for their second goal.
    Ignore the corner controversy for their first and after the corner which we mostly cleared the shot from the edge of the box was saved by Fab but two players then got in his way, one of which was Soucek who fell to the ground.
    We are obviously going to need to bring in a striker this window, this week even as we’ve now lost 4 forwards, but defenders must be a number one priority.
  • EXETERHAMMEREXETERHAMMER
    Time to get a couple of players in.
  • alderzalderz
    I’ve just seen the equaliser and it’s outrageously bad refereeing. You can say we should have defended it better, but it’s just an unfortunate touch from Soucek that stops Fabianski being able to gather it.
  • LukerzLukerz
    Yeah there is no doubt (IMO) if the corner isn’t awarded, we probably hold on & win. It’s a shocking call. One of the worst I’ve seen.
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