Thought Doucoure had a great game - disagree with your 5
Even if Ayew hadn’t got injured, he would have been knackered in the last 15 as was most of the players. Missed Lerma big time and needed Hughes on the bench to be one of the quality players missing from the bench to come on for the last 15 / 20 minutes. Even your 4 in my opinion isn’t how I saw it. Thought Eze saw load of the ball but sadly was poor with it :-(
Definitely agree with 2 and our squad depth, especially with the injuries we have.
Biggest issue was not getting that killer 2nd goal and for me it was Eze that was the main culprit in that not happening today.
Mind you if the ref had done his job properly and not given the penalty we would have come out of it with a credible draw?

Our lack of depth and quality in our squad is what cost us today. We put our strongest team out and Ayew went off after 20 minutes. The international break didn’t do us any favours whatsoever and we were on the back foot even before the 3 o’clock kick off.

Let’s move on and hopefully we can make amends against Fulham.

1) Nonsense
2) Correct until you mention Richards who has performed in every game he has been put in (He doesn't get any sold game time if he did we would see what he is really about)
3) He is important to us (shows again why we needed investment in the squad massive loses when these players are out)
4) Other teams know he is the main man for us so the bigger teams will cancel him out (Another example should have purchased other players for other options)
5) He did what he could and needs players around him to do work as well

The way we fell apart at the end was a disgrace and shows Ward is not correct captain it's people like him that should be setting example and screaming at people he doesn't (He is not this level anymore anyway again showing what a joke the squad is if he starts every week)

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Andersen is captain on the pitch and he should have the armband

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

I thought Richards was excellent today and don’t know what he has to do to get a regular game (instead of ward). Eze will be a fine player one day but not until he stops wasting possession. We went toe to toe with a surprisingly poor villa team. Silenced villa park until last 10 mins and that worldie strike. Always miss ayew. Andersen couldn’t pass to save his life today!!!! Great to see edouard n mateta combining. Hughes is a great squad member and surely should be ahead of schlupp. Poor result but pretty damned good performance again

There has to be moments where contact with the ball and player are at exactly the same time and I feel this is what happened today, the ref easily could've said no pen ..we all know what MOTD will say though.