West Ham United vs. Aston Villa: Match Thread

[ozzjim]

Available now... could not see another.


Come on Villa.

[timeoutbigbar]

Sunny day, cold beer opened, stream to be searched for...

Come on you Villa boys!!

[CJ]

Available now... could not see another.


Come on Villa.

Cheers Ozzjim.  Could you sticky it?

[darren woolley]

Please give me three point's again today Villa.

[ozzjim]

Took me 5 minutes to remember how CJ... done now!

[placeforparks]

West Ham United: Green, Jacobsen, Bridge, Da Costa, Upson, O'Neil, Noble, Hitzlsperger, Obinna, Keane, Cole
Subs: Boffin, Gabbidon, Spector, Boa Morte, Hines, Piquionne, Ba

Aston Villa: Friedel, Walker, Dunne, Collins, L. Young, Downing, A.Young, Petrov, Reo-Coker, Heskey, Bent
Subs: Marshall, Cuellar, Clark, Makoun, Pires, Albrighton, Agbonlahor

[Percy McCarthy]

Will our better players overcome their greater motivation? I'm not optimistic.

EDIT: Just seen that Parker's out, that's cheered me up a bit.

[pr_N'villa]

good line-up, good decision to drop makoun. 4-4-2. just what we need, back to basics. i think we'll win today!

other than walker and bent its pretty much the same team that finished sixth last season!

[ozzjim]

No Parker for them. Quite pleased to see Heskey up with Bent too, think it is a good partnership in the making. Very interesting to see how Upson deals with Heskey.

[CJ]

No sign of Delph again - anyone know why?

[citizenDJ]

I think Delph was reported as injured earlier in the week.

[darren woolley]

It's a big bonus that they have got Scottie Parker out would have been worried if he had played.

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

Been waiting for the Heskey - Bent partnership. Ashley on the wing wow is Houllier listening to the fans ??

[Toronto Villa]

They are going to be very disappointed about Parker not playing. He is everything to them, so we need to get into them as quickly as possible. We'll definitely create chances, and I like Emile coming in for this game, opening up some spaces for Bent. An early goal for uys, and their crowd will get very tense indeed. We just need to be motivated today and we will win this.

[JJ-AV]

Ashley's played wide left the last two games, tbf