West Ham United v Aston Villa Match Thread

[Axl Rose]

We're awful because we never have any possession....39% or something along those lines. Again...Dreadful Villa. That 'pass' by Sylla then,....................my God! And then back to Westwood...who passes backwards. Crap.

[aj2k77]

   Paul AVFC: Bright and entertaining first half so far. Just no goals.

That must be Lambert under a pseudonym.

[Proposition Joe]

This is what it must be like in Hell.  Season after season of slowly inching to 40 pts.

[ozzjim]

We know Lambert can get us playing well going forward. I think he is desperately searching for some kind of balance from one end to the other.

[citizenDJ]

All we do is kick it up to the front player. Who immediately tries to lay it off to nobody.... Everytime

How dare you! We're definitely not a long ball team, remember - Lambert gets quite upset if you make that sort of accusation!

I'm not a fan of Lambert or his coaching  team.

Neither am I. I think we are a long ball team, however much he tries to deny it, and we;re a poor one at that. Which is doubly frustrating as we look much better when we pass it around.

[spangley1812]

Hull 1-0 Sunderland......Carlos og

[CJ]

Can someone remind me which is the boring long ball team and which team likes to get it on the floor and pass it?

[pauliewalnuts]

We've barely been out of our own half, we appear not to have bothered  with a midfield today, too.

We'll string two passes together and the third will invariably be a 50-50 ball, at best, most of which fall to them.

It has been like that for a few weeks now, and doesn't look like it is getting better any time soon.

[Matt Collins]

My twitter feed says we've had 19 passes into the final third. Six successful. Most of them seem to have travelled 60 yards plus.

Not that I'm watching but it does sound like we're looking rather like a Mcleish team? 

[Goldie.7]

We've been absolute gash for the last 35 minutes. Piss poor performance!

[Tuscans]

Zzzz Zzzz

[Nelly]

Sounds pretty poor in honesty. I'm listening to London 94.9 and I'm struck by how openly pro-West Ham they are. Deary me, shut them up, Villa.

[PaulWinch again]

Well this team is set up completely wrong and we need changes there is absolutely fuck all creativity. This is now 3 and a half games we haven't scored for. Awful.

[Jimbo]

This is quite incredible. A team that can't defend for shit (us) against a team that can't score for their lives ('ammers). It's like watching a drunk trying to poke someone's eye out with cooked spaghetti.

[gervilla]

Well that was as crap a display from us as I've seen in a long time.
There is only one team in this game.
Major improvement needed in the 2nd half.
I wish we had a midfield.