Aston Villa v West Ham post-match thread

[TheMalandro]

Sloppy by all of them. Grealish had a real stinker.

Officials c**ts again. Lucky to have a point.

[Le Lapin]

We need to scrap for every point. This team are going to struggle. But we will need to fight hard to stay up.

[Taylor]

I thought Marvelous had a good game after a shaky start. AEG was a bit rubbish.

[gpbarr]

Tired of saying it but Dean is currently fixated (it would appear) on a formation that IMO is not fit for the PL.

Jota and SJG are too alike - we can only afford one type of player like that on the pitch and, when they both play poorly (like tonight) we are toothless.

And he has to play 2 of Luiz/Marvelous/Hourihane for me every time - only 1 and we look lightweight in midfield.

Its so damn obvious - drop JOta or AEG for one additional DM, we will look far more solid and as a result, we wont have creative players dropping deep all the time to re-enforce midfield, leaving them focused on what they do best.

wesley/davis is a straight swap question, but IMO not the biggest problem.

Dean - learn!!!!

[saint13]

We are very weak down our left side. Taylor gives us absolutely nothing going forward. He is completely pedestrian and under hits virtually every pass he makes.

[Bad English]

46% possession?

[Axl Rose]

Definitely not worth getting up for. I thought we were ok first half, the second not so much.

My interest started to wane when Elmo was brought on for Jota. Couldn't they just alter the formation, get a bit more zip in the middle of the park, and put two up front?

Overall, 4/10. Jack still too deep, Taylor, Jota, El Ghazi and Wesley offered very little.

On the plus side, defence does look solid, Guilbert impressed with his pace, and Heaton didn't have much to do.

[four fornicholl]

Deano made the wrong changes too late, 5 out of 10.

[manic-road]

At half time I'd have taken the point, too many players had an off night. Lots of misplaced passes, I hope we don't have to many performances at home like this over the season or we will be in trouble.

[Rudy65]

We are very weak down our left side. Taylor gives us absolutely nothing going forward. He is completely pedestrian and under hits virtually every pass he makes.

Taylor had a decent game in my view

[PaulWinch again]

Positives - got a point, kept a clean sheet, and Mings, Engels and Guilbert were good.

Negatives - very disjointed, no control in midfield, and really lacked threat. Jota and El Ghazi were poor.

Need to develop our game.

[manic-road]

We are very weak down our left side. Taylor gives us absolutely nothing going forward. He is completely pedestrian and under hits virtually every pass he makes.

Taylor had a decent game in my view

Yep Taylor was one of our most consistent players. Solid without being spectacular, there were others far worse than Taylor.

[thick_mike]

Out of the relegation zone

[taylorsworkrate]

That was fucking shit. We never remotely looked like scoring tonight.

Mings and Engels very good, and Marvelous grew into it, but aside from that it was awful.

Where the fuck we are going to get enough goals from this season is anyones guess. We will need to spend and spend big on forward options in January

[Rudy65]

Tired of saying it but Dean is currently fixated (it would appear) on a formation that IMO is not fit for the PL.

Jota and SJG are too alike - we can only afford one type of player like that on the pitch and, when they both play poorly (like tonight) we are toothless.

And he has to play 2 of Luiz/Marvelous/Hourihane for me every time - only 1 and we look lightweight in midfield.

Its so damn obvious - drop JOta or AEG for one additional DM, we will look far more solid and as a result, we wont have creative players dropping deep all the time to re-enforce midfield, leaving them focused on what they do best.

wesley/davis is a straight swap question, but IMO not the biggest problem.

Dean - learn!!!!

Agreed. He doesn’t vary it enough for me. Easy to blame Wesley, but he had zero service and no support. If the wide men are going to stay wide the midfield have to support Wesley, otherwise we get what we get. Sweet FA