West Ham United v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[caster troy]

Zero creativity in midfield for about the 3rd season in a row. How can we have failed to score in 6 out of 10 games?

[ez]

We didn't lose. Losing that one would have been a disaster.

[avfcpg]

1. Results have to come first, decent result. 
2. Clean sheets away from home as well, something we were crying out for.
3. Better results than last season on all (?) games so far. Well that can't be a bad thing.

Ok we are not playing like Barca right now and home form is poor, so those can be numbers 4 & 5 on the list. I think we are going about it in the right order. 
January, a creative midfielder has just got to be way way way on top of the list though.

[PaulWinch again]

The 5-3-2 really isn't formation we can play and hope to win with the players at our disposal.

[Irish villain]

Yes it can. A bonus point!

I laughed hard at that because I imagined Lambert saying it: 'we got a bonus point 'n all this season, we are going fine'.

[Stu]

Anyway, I refuse to let villa ruin any more of my weekend. Off to watch some proper football in the arsenal - Liverpool game

Fill your boots then.

I must have been hallucinating when I saw us put 3 past Arsenal. Thank fuck they were playing proper football though, otherwise it must have been a dream sequence.

[paulcomben]

I'll just be relieved to dodge a 4th relegation struggle in a row with some signs of the team gelling.

Injuries do not help. Weimann has apparently done his hamstring.

[Villafirst]

7 years on from Lerner's takeover and we've achieved nothing. We had better years under Deadly Doug's reign. Bright future?.. a joke!!

[Matt Collins]

Anyway, I refuse to let villa ruin any more of my weekend. Off to watch some proper football in the arsenal - Liverpool game

Fill your boots then.

I must have been hallucinating when I saw us put 3 past Arsenal. Thank fuck they were playing proper football though, otherwise it must have been a dream sequence.

Eh? We played very well that day. I don't see how that makes today's performance any better though. And I don't see why I should feel ashamed about liking watching good teams play football either, thanks.

[Irish villain]

7 years on from Lerner's takeover and we've achieved nothing. We had better years under Deadly Doug's reign. Bright future?.. a joke!!

I think we spent so much time wanting Doug out we are giving Randy too much 'benefit of the doubt'. The club has just stank of paralysis for a long time. Even in MON's last season you could sense we were a bit rudderless.

[Deano's Mullet]

Gone from scoring a fair few last season but conceding buckets to keeping clean sheets but sacrificing our attacking threat. If Benteke doesn't score we don't score. I don't even think of us long term anymore, its just on a week to week basis and whether the result is going to affect my weekend.

[royvilla949]

given up on PL its not working players not good enough for the prem utter shite

[mr woo]

First off I'm happy with the point, and a reasonably resolute defensive display away from home.

But that's about as positive as it gets...


Paul Lambert will point to another like for like improvement on last season's corresponding result I'm sure, but it's such a shame he has abandoned everything that we found exciting last year in order to achieve it. Im sure Alex McLeish will be salivating at the crafty way he s managed to shoehorn not one, not two, but THREE defensive midfielders in front of a back five for the entire game but I doubt many supporters would be appreciative.

Our attacking play is continually woeful. You can count on the fingers of one hand the passes we are capable of making in the opposition half before a rapists touch or misdirected pass will give up possession cheaply. Not occasionally, but time after time after time.
Are our players all so untalented? Or are they struggling to retain the ball because the options to offload it dont present themselves? Either way, it needs to be worked on.

Thought Bacuna did well at left back, thought Lowton struggled defensively but his delivery from deep crosses is a useful weapon, we've missed that.
KEA was found wanting, and Westwood continues amaze me by being  completely anonymous.

In other news, we're crying out for width blah blah blah etc etc 

[hilts_coolerking]

The stats may say we've improved on the relevant fixtures from last season but watching us today I'm hard pressed to say that's a team which has come on leaps and bounds.  In fact today we looked worse coming forward and in possession.  We did look more in control at the back but then again we had five there against pretty much fuck all from West Ham.

But it's more than that.  We just looked so... ordinary.

[Legion]

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