Aston Villa vs West Ham match thread

[olaftab]

Absolute lack of quality is killing us. Gil has come on and it appears he has been told to play like Westwood...what a waste. Really depressed sitting here.. But it's not cold today

[Monty]

We're playing much better than we did under Sherwood - we're just still losing.

[four fornicholl]

here we go then
please villa really try

[Goldie.7]

Westwood has actually been alright the last game and today.

[auntiesledd]

Not addressing the right side being exposed as much as we have is tactical naive on the part of Garde. If it was Sherwood in charge he'd be rightly getting smashed for it. West Ham know they can attack down that side all afternoon and eventually it got them what they wanted.

I've still yet to be remotely impressed with Garde.  I wasn't expecting a six game winning run, but if anything we're playing more badly than under Sherwood.

Really? Worse than under Sherwood?

I think we're just as bad. It just goes to show that if a manager inherits a load of crap, nothing really changes. I hope Lerner is proud of his pathetic 'stewardship'. We're fucked.

[Toronto Villa]

What a fucking calamity we are at the back. Comedy stuff

[ozzjim]

The worst think about it was we did well in that first half, but losing Sanchez killed us.

[Toronto Villa]

16 games and counting without winning would have been harder to do if we actually tried to do it.

[Steve R]

I suppose that sums up life in the shit lane. West Ham had done absolutely nothing and should have been behind on that performance. We were bossing it and searching for a goal, under no pressure at all. One injury and it goes to shit.

You can't blame Garde. The real problem we have is that we went into the season with only two full backs - one of which is Hutton and the other is now out for the duration - and only 4 proper midfielders.

[ozzjim]

Great ball Gestede there

[boboonthecorner]

Second half is massive for us now.

How many times have we said this??? It's getting fucking boring........ Lets hope The Championship brings a feel good factor back because its looking a dead cert. No win since August is utterly ridiculous.

[Villa in Denmark]

Not addressing the right side being exposed as much as we have is tactical naive on the part of Garde. If it was Sherwood in charge he'd be rightly getting smashed for it. West Ham know they can attack down that side all afternoon and eventually it got them what they wanted.

I've still yet to be remotely impressed with Garde.  I wasn't expecting a six game winning run, but if anything we're playing more badly than under Sherwood.

We are not. We are just still making silly mistakes

I'd say we look a little more organised, a little less frightened of the ball but still hamstrung by.

1. Guzan in goal
2. Unable to play a settled back 4 with first choice players in their proper positions (even though gobshite had allegedly promised Richards he could play centre back if he wanted)
3. A lack of a focal point to the attack that isn't an ent.

1 and 3 can be rectified from Jan 1st.
He needs Richards fit to come back in at right back and decide if Bennett, Cissokho or A.N. Other is the left back he wants until the end of the season.

Unfortunately a lack of 6 points from this afternoon and Monday will render it all definitely meaningless instead of quite probably meaningless.

[Risso]

Gil has done nothing right since coming on.  Overrated.

[D.boy]

I can't see us getting to 10 points this season. We have made a habit of losing and I can't see how these players are going to stop the rot. We are leaking goals every game and don't get me started on how many we concede in the closing minutes of either half. Can't score, can't defend and have no fight. The whole thing is just so meh now. 

[Toronto Villa]

Gestede HAS to score there. FFS