[Albion] Aston Villa vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

YES!!

 

[Hendrax]

Atwell trying his hardest to disallow that huh

 

[oldboyroy]

Come on lads let's make a game of this now

 

[The Fits]

Get in..had to be if they had a player off the field.

 

[Washie]

Happy to have been wrong haha,

 

[WhingForPresident]

Goal given. Well done Ansu.

 

[Steve in Japan]

Atwell looked and looked, gutted that he couldn't overturn the goal.

 

[pasty]

Surprised Atwell didn’t find a reason to chalk that off.

 

[Marty McFly]

VAR tried to rule it out

Not without reason, I was concerned VAR would ignore their player off the field

 

[The Fits]

Love JP so much. He causes absolute mayhem

 

[Washie]

Get in..had to be of they had a player off the field.

Not necessarily, depends on the goalkeeper

 

[Stato]

Lots of talk on this thread about Hinshelwood starting. He’s not to blame but one thing is definite- you cannot have an untried midfielder from the youth team in the premier league and hope to stay top 4- fact

So you don't win anything with kids?

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

It was either a goal or a penalty FFS

 

[Bodian]

Atwell trying his hardest to disallow that huh

To be fair to him, that was a difficult one to check - had to check two or three things at once.

 

[perth seagull]

Great finish by Fati.

 

[DJ NOBO]

If Pedro put the ball across - may have actually been a Villa player's touch.

That was the issue. If the defender hadn’t got a touch, and it comes clean off Pedro, then it is offside.
I think we were given the benefit of the doubt.

 

[Bridcutt]

Not necessarily, depends on the goalkeeper

Get in..had to be if they had a player off the field.

If Fati was behind the goalkeeper it would have been offside. Fati needed to be infront of one opposition player (McGinn) and he was and he needed to be ahead of the goalkeeper (he was)

 

[Normandy seagull]

So you don't win anything with kids?

No not these days my friend

 

[Bodian]

That was the issue. If the defender hadn’t got a touch, and it comes clean off Pedro, then it is offside.

Not necessarily - his back foot would have had to have been behind Martinez (and I don't think it was) - because the Villa player off the pitch counts as being on the dead ball line.

 

[Gazwag]

I think the offside one is subjective - so fair enough really. And we did have quite a bit of time after the foul on Solly - they rarely pull it back for things like that (for all teams not just us). We only have ourselves to blame today.

I'm not disputing we deserved to be 3.0 down but the foul on March was a clear and obvious error leading to their attack and goal in the same pattern of play