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Pathetic yellow for Veltman- who has been superb

Ah, the famous French falling over game. They are world champions je pense.

I like this tactic of breaking all their players

Most of our team have never played in an atmosphere anything like this. It's a big step up from the quiet conversation of the Amex. This first campaign was always going to be tough. I don't think the press ramping up our chances helped.

Decent finish to the half. Should have had one back. Maybe, just maybe, starting to settle.

Great ball Dahoud

Every forward pass being picked off with ease. March and Mitoma being cut out of the game.

Too easy

I started a paper round at about 14 in Burgess Hill. I remember I had 41 evening papers to deliver on a rural round in Keymer Road and the bloody bag weighed a ton. Some kids had small town based rounds with about 20 papers and got paid the same 14 shillings a week. I used a bike my Dad bought...

There was no way that Villa were not going to score in this half. We always needed four. 4-4 anybody?

Game on

Painful watch. Emery has done his homework and shut down the routes through midfield. Every time the ball is passed forward they are snapping at us and in truth, comprehensively outplaying us. I don't think a single Albion player has stood out as playing well, but Mitoma, Estupinan and...

Clinical finishing at one end. Comedy finishing at the other.

This is the stuff of nightmares.

100% with this. If we won the Carabao Cup it would probably be the greatest moment in our history after Hereford. I hate it when another chance of silverware passes us by. This is one we actually could win.

I am feeling ridiculously invested in this game, purely because it is against Chelsea. It won't break my heart if Albion don't win the Carabao Cup, but I don't want to lose to THEM.

Playing Bournemouth is like having a bye between games against actual premier league teams. A sort of lost weekend where it is impossible to get excited. I've always hated the pretentious tossers since they changed their name. And Ted MacDougall was an over rated Sunday league player.

Same old story really, failing to break down an organized defence. I also think the occasion got the better of us. A hard lesson to take but there will be more enjoyable European nights in the future.

There will be a wall of noise in my Auckland living room at 7am, surrounded by a wall of Kiwi indifference...

Has to be Dunky and Levi. However, sadly that is my world, not Southgate's. Imagine England playing out from the back...