Aston Villa 2 Fulham 2: Points squandered after failure to capitalise on strong 1st half

It was honours even at Villa Park after a frustrating performance led to points being dropped for the second time against Fulham this season. An own goal from John Pantsil and a superb goal from Kyle Walker were both cancelled out by goals from Andrew Johnson and Clint Dempsey. Brad Friedel won’t want to watch the replays.

It started extremely promisingly, some exceptionally fluid play from Villa at times, Jean Makoun at the heart of much that was positive. An early

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StatShack – Aston Villa 2 Fulham 0

I haven’t had chance to do a full review of the game just yet, but I’ve got the basics in place for a stats review I’d like to run regularly. There’s still some work to go, and I’ve yet to nail down the sources for the data, but this will give you a basic idea of what I’d like to produce as soon as possible after games (time permitting):-

2
Aston Villa
Aug 30th 2009
Fulham
0

43
Possession %
57

10
Shots
8

2
On Target
0

9
Corners
4

5
Offsides
1

2′ Pantsil (OG),

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Aston Villa Get Back On Track

Villa beat Fulham 2 – 0 at Villa Park today to close out August in 8th place in the Premiership before a two week International break. As far as the league goes, I think most would have reluctantly taken 6 points from the the first 3 games, although they probably wouldn’t have predicted where the points would have come from.

Villa got off to the best of starts when a mix up at the back by Fulham led to a

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Aston Villa vs Fulham

It’s back to the meat and potato business of Premiership action at Villa Park on Sunday when Fulham come to town in what, at this early stage of the season, is a six pointer. Villa and Fulham both have played two, won one, lost one records right now. Fulham more predictably beat Portsmouth, but lost to Chelsea. Villa don’t do predictable.

Fulham have never beaten Villa at home in a Premiership match and have only managed 4 wins

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