Aston Villa v West Ham United Post-Match Thread

[robbo1874]

I got some stick last week for wanting Lambert out of Villa Park.i see a few more have seen the light now.  I Thought we were far worse last week

What is our game plan and tactics? What do they do in training. When the midfield gets the ball there is no movement upfront. Gabby is often just static.

You cant play those three up front. There is no width.Weimann is too deep and a waste of a place. He needs to play alongside Benteke or not at all.

Gabby was poor today.

Albrighton was superb. Not just his crosses but he takes a bloody good corner as well. westwood please note. Albrighton has to play for the next few games in place of Weimann on Tuesday. Give Benteke consistent service and he will score

Centre backs did ok today. Both made goal saving tackles in the first half

Bacuna's passing was abysmal.

Its going to be along old few months until May

with respect Rudy, last week we were away against an in form Everton side, top 6 or thereabouts with an enviable record at Goodison. Today we were at home against a side that would be comparable to Blues when they were last up. Last week's result was understandable, today's was pretty much unforgivable.

[Fin Feds Dad]

We only lost 1 point off Southampton in race for 9th. Newcastle lost as well. I'm not even looking down. We'll win on Tuesday and everything's fine again.

Garbage -it's woeful shite served up by a clueless wanker . 3 more years of this - no thanks.

[Toronto Villa]

very very poor. There's no defending that at all. It wouldn't surprise me at all too see Baker and possibly even Lowton gone in the summer. They make mental errors throughout the game. It starts from the back and when we make schoolboy errors it kills almost everything else. Only Delph is really good enough for a starting spot. Bacuna is a solid squad player only. And as for the front three today. Blimey. They all better find first gear against Cardiff because we left the hand brake on today for 90 minutes.

[olaftab]

We had enough chances to win this game today but didn't get the breaks you need. It's a shame that Delph our best player  made the dreadful mistake for their second but this was their day today after the Carroll kerfuffle tat went on all week.

[pauliewalnuts]

with respect Rudy, last week we were away against an in form Everton side, top 6 or thereabouts with an enviable record at Goodison. Today we were at home against a side that would be comparable to Blues when they were last up. Last week's result was understandable, today's was pretty much unforgivable.

Last week, losing at Goodison was far from unforgiveable. The manner in which we played, though, was pretty unforgiveable, if not the result.

Today the way we played AND the result were unforgiveable. We were lucky to be level at half time. Two outbreaks of comedy defending and we're two goals down. We created absolutely nothing until Albrighton came on, and even then didn't take any of our chances.

Ultimately, we got what we deserved from today - nothing. You just can not play football matches and only turn up for 25 minutes here and there. It just doesn't work that way.

Delph dropped a clanger, yes, but what about the rest of the match? There really wasn't a lot to take heart from.

We have now played 13 home league games and lost 8 of them. That is truly gobsmacking.

We've scored 12 goals at home this season, fewer than everyone else bar Norwich, and 4 of those goals came in one game.

If it weren't for the better away form, we'd be fucked, but let's not get over-excited on that even, we have the 10th best away record in the league. We are far from world beaters on our travels, either.

I want Lambert to work, I want it to go well, but how much longer are we going to carry on smashing records of shitness like this? And it's not as if we've only started this season, we broke a few last season as well.

[steamer]

I gave him lots of slack.
On our home form alone he should be fired, it is unbelievable that we continuously serve up this crap and the fans keep coming.
Mr owner be positive and make a move, we could not be worse than this with no one in charge.
Failed to plug gaps in window, crap.
clueless in having a formation that is constant and understood.
Time to move on.

[Witton Warrior]

As we walked out I was talking to three blokes who come down from Preston every home match - and I thought I was stupid!
No ST money for you Mr Lerner...
W3 D2 L8

[mr underhill]

 I sympathise with the stability brigade but if continuity  means much more of this its surely too high a price to pay with absolutely no sign or guarantee that it will get better. Off to change my wet sheets again.

[olaftab]

68% possession. 

I hope West fans are dishing out  dog shit to Allardyce for only having 32%.

[Legion]

Lambert on wm now saying we played well at Everton, I nearly fell off my stool.

We did.



In 2008.

Cue leeg posting the video highlights 

I hope so.  I need a pick-me-up.

YouTube have blocked my video, unfortunately.

[Legion]

That was absolutely atrocious.

[eastie]

We had enough chances to win this game today but didn't get the breaks you need. It's a shame that Delph our best player  made the dreadful mistake for their second but this was their day today after the Carroll kerfuffle tat went on all week.

We were dreadful and got what we deserved- take off your blinkers!

[CJ]

Yet another totally inept display by players and manager alike. The really surprising thing is we still get gates of c.37,000 to watch that shit every home game. Like other ST-holding mugs I've seen us win just 3 times this season and we're heading for yet another relegation scrap. We've become the new Wigan

[class_of_82]

Is it me or do opposing players play Jedi mind tricks on our players because I can't fathom out how not switched on we are at times.

Somewhere in a far off galaxy this team are top of the league

[midnite]

West ham and nothing. The second half they did absolutely nothing. We gifted them 2 goals. Our lose today was us handing them two goal, we weren't out played. Our shocking home record continues not because we were out played but because of our inability to concentrate for the whole match and keep a clean sheet. west brom was a freak result. You can't go 2-0 down after 8 mins and normally win the game. Today is what normally happens when you concede two goals in the premiere league. And it was out joke defending that gifted it to them. They didn't work hard for it. Didn't pass us off the park for it either.

It's shite football out there at villa park at the moment. I have no pleasure at all coming to watch villa at the moment. The only reason I do is because I've paid for my season ticket so I might as well.  The football on shoe is hideous, long ball. I'm not proud of the way we play at all. Do I think we'll go down though? No. We're still not the worst three teams in the league. We can get the results when we need to. It's when we have he inexperienced players at the back that the mistakes are happening. Added to the fact that there's just no movement up front nothing gets created either.

We're good when we counter and it's quick balls. The minute we have to build up and try to break a defence down we just can't do it. There's no movement from out front players at all. It's embarrassing. A game like today was crying out for someone like N'Zogbia. He sees the space to run into or pass into.

Bacuna's crossing was shameful today. Never beating the first man. Albrightons although was brilliant in comparison still wasn't good enough. The likes of Collins in the west ham defence even though he's not the best defender will head those crossed away all day long. Bats the way west ham are set up. We didn't stand a chance against the big guys at the back for west Ham. We came close for sure but at the end of the day we weren't good enough.

Should have been a 0-0 draw if it wasn't for villa switching off for 5 mins after half time.