West Ham v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Witton Warrior]

Agree with the point Chris - Liverpool had something like 88% possession at one point against the Boggies today... You have to do something with it!

[fredm]

The main disappointment for me was the apparent lack of urgency, especially in the last 15 minutes when you would expect the losing side to give it a go.  It is all very well having possession and passing the ball sweetly around but this needs to be done at a greater pace than we bothered to do.

Other disappointments for me was the full backs not getting forward enough into the space down the flanks.  OK I appreciate Baker is not a genuine full back but I was under the impression that Lowton was more an attacking than defending full back.

The other point was how poor was Gary Gardner for his short stint?  I think he needs a season long loan to see if he can make the transition up from youth football to league level.

[SoccerHQ]

That was as bad as anything I saw last season tbh, woeful.

If Lowton is going to be our attacking fullback, he really needs to improve the quality of his crossing.

Bent once again feeding on scraps.

Very disappointed and we need to see much better against Everton.

[Chipsticks]

At this point I'm just terrified of people not giving Lambert a chance, as Liverpool are bound to do with Rodgers.

[spk]

Bloody hell ,a summers worth of optimism gone in 90 mins,but hopefully im being too hasty

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

On a positive note, the live stream I watched it on which I had to find for myself and which I cant tell anybody about was complete shite so consequently I probably only saw half the game.

[Irish villain]

Started brightly....worrying end. I thought we would have attacked more.

Was Holman trying too hard or something?

I'd get in another attacking player before the window cloes.

[darren woolley]

I'm disappointed we never really posed a threat today we need to get somebody who can cross a ball in because if we don't we will struggle again Let's just hop PL will go out a buy a player or two before the window closes who can cross a ball from out wide.

[Summers]

Didn't watch it, shame about the result. I'll watch MOTD and see. Stats wise it sounds like we played alright, but lacked any cutting edge. Hopefully Lambo can address that with a couple of new signings - and quite soon. A new striker would be lovely.

[Tuscans]

For me its not a striker we need, never have in my opinion...its the flanks all day for me. We had one winger on the pitch today and N'Zog is hit or miss for me, mostly miss since he has joined. Albrighton I kinda feel the same about so the need of a supply line from out wide is a must as it was plain to see we didnt have any outlet on either side.

Dyer, Sinclair will never come to Villa at this present time, we don't have the funds...but maybe Phillips from Blackpool etc could be worth a punt.

[exigo]

Good atmosphere at the game. We tried to pass it for 30 minutes. Got undone by a classic Allardyce style of play. Didn't appear to have a plan B.

Too slow in the middle, too many sideways passes. Not enough incision.

But Nigel Kennedy was wearing a hi-viz jacket, so not all doom and tragedy.

[kippaxvilla2]

Trouble is I don't think we can expect gamechanging signings in the next fortnight as no one is relieving us of our flops.  Let's pray that MON helps us out in the coming days.

[paulcomben]

Didn't watch it, shame about the result. I'll watch MOTD and see. Stats wise it sounds like we played alright, but lacked any cutting edge. Hopefully Lambo can address that with a couple of new signings - and quite soon. A new striker would be lovely.

You & we will watch MOTD to see 90 seconds of highlights as the last game shown, badly edited by a Man U supporting BBC contract editor wanting to nip home early for a kebab, movie, beer and BJ. The only conclusions we will be able to draw reflect licence fee funded Salford-based dossers and not Villa's performance.

[Shrek]

We are third from last on match of the day, reading game and Arsenal game are last.

[Chris Jameson]

Bloody hell the BBC bashing has started early this season. After their coverage of the Olympics I can't say I'm too bothered about what they do on MOTD but then again I very rarely watch it.