OPINION
Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest played out a crazy game at Villa Park on Wednesday night, and it was a horror show for the home side’s defenders – and James Chester in particular.
Lewis Grabban put the visitors ahead after just three minutes and Joao Carvalho doubled Forest’s lead three minutes later.
Villa fans didn’t know what had hit them – especially the few that came in late – but they knew enough to flock onto Twitter to lay into Chester.
Then the game turned, Tammy Abraham scored twice to level and got his hat-trick after 36 minutes but only after Matty Cash had put the visitors in front again.
That was it for half-time put Forest picked up where they left off in the second-half, and Joe Lolley scored their fourth after 51 minutes.
Home fans were fearing the worst but a quickfire double from Abraham and substitute Anwar El Ghazi, after Tobias Figueiredo was sent off for Forest, seemed to give them the three points.
But of course that wasn’t it. Grabban popped up late on to score the visitor’s fifth in a 10-goal thriller.
Villa fans were puzzled by Chester though and one fan summed it up perfectly when he said he’d been “superb for two years and shocking this season”.
Here are the best reactions from Villa fan’s to Chester’s display on Wednesday night:
Seriously our defending is diabolical, Terry made Chester look so much better, Axel has potential but his positioning is shocking #avfc
— Josh ? (@Joshtrich1) November 28, 2018
Ok… Firstly what the hell did I just watch that half was madness and secondly what on earth is going on with Chester he was abysmal on Sunday and he was absolutley shocking that half
But COME ON YOU VILLA BOYS!!! #AVFC #UTV #VTID
— Tom Salt ? (@tomsalt2802) November 28, 2018
Good job we can attack and score goals ain’t it ?? love the way we attack and move it quick and pass it around!! Just need to sort the defending out, Chester just doesn’t look the same this season! Our left defensive side is our weakness! ? #avfc
— Aston Villa Updates (@AstonVilla_info) November 28, 2018
https://twitter.com/realVillaTrump/status/1067875914313359360
Chester what are you doing? Shocking defending again #AVFC
— Peter White (@peterwhite_1) November 28, 2018
James Chester what has happened mate? Superb for 2 years and shocking this season #avfc
— Ben Hammond (@JaminH86) November 28, 2018
Think we might see 2-3 new defenders and a new GK could me Jan. Nyland doesnt provide any confidence and Chester looks completely knackered/out of form. #avfc
— Chrsmo (@Chrsmo) November 28, 2018
https://twitter.com/silver_fox24/status/1067873918747320322
https://twitter.com/AVFCandFPL/status/1067873762882801664