The new Aston Villa goalkeeper struggled on Saturday at times.
Aston Villa fans on Twitter are criticising goalkeeper Tom Heaton.
The former Burnley man joined Villa in an £8 million deal earlier this month [The Daily Mail], but his second Premier League outing for his new club wasn’t as successful as his first.
Heaton, who impressed away at Tottenham last weekend, conceded a penalty less than a minute after kickoff at Villa Park on Saturday as Dean Smith’s side lost 2-1 to Bournemouth.
It was Callum Wilson who he inexplicably felled after coming off his line, with Joshua King scoring the resulting spot-kick to send the Cherries on their way.
Given that it was Aston Villa’s first home game of the Premier League season, it was a horrible way to bring top-flight back to the West Midlands.
And here’s how fans reacted to that incident.
Heaton, to his credit, did pull off a number of other impressive saves, but it didn’t matter. That penalty set the tone for Aston Villa’s afternoon and it gave his team-mates a mountain to climb.
The 33-year-old has 98 Premier League games under his belt. He is fairly experienced at this level, which means two things: a) he really should know better and b) it was a dreadful error in judgement that probably won’t happen again for a while.
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