Aston Villa v West Ham post-match thread

[LukeJames]

We limited Westham to absolutely nothing, 2 clean sheets on the bounce at home.

[AV82EC]

We look really weak in the two wide positions. Full backs were not great tonight. We looked brainless when they went down to 10 men. Still learning....

[Dazvillain]

Good game to blood marvellous

[Mossie Hennebry]

Well, that was frustrating. Jota is very one-paced, Taylor is a liability and El Ghazi could have been removed to save his blushes. Wesley needs to do more. I think we will improve though. Onwards and upwards.

[Bad English]

Definitely not worth getting up for.

I'm regretting those 5 cans of Stella as I'm up at 5.30 and it's 11pm now.

Fucking Villa eh! We're like no deal Brexit on a football pitch.

[Drummond]

A bit dull.

As has been said too many misplaced passes. Trying to hard, too many fancy passes rather than keeping it simple and building patiently.

[Risso]

That was a steaming pile of old shite. So many needless passes given away under no pressure. Grealish was really poor second half, very bad indeed. Southgate is here again, can’t think he’ll have been impressed at all.

[taylorsworkrate]

We are very weak down our left side. Taylor gives us absolutely nothing going forward. He is completely pedestrian and under hits virtually every pass he makes.

Taylor had a decent game in my view

Yep Taylor was one of our most consistent players. Solid without being spectacular, there were others far worse than Taylor.

Taylor didn't have a "bad" game, but he is so limited as a footballer it completely takes the left hand side of the pitch away as an attacking threat.

In fairness El Ghazi was a joke tonight.

[kippaxvilla2]

I know we are back in the PL and it is a step up.  But Dean seems to have gone very negative in his tactics all of a sudden, we have turned into a counter attacking team and we are too slow for that.  Those tactics against the top sides are okay but against the middle table sides we need to be more positive.  At least we didn't lose it.  We could have done easily especially after they went down to ten strangely.

[garyshawsknee]

Pretty drab second half. On the positive side, defence looked good, Freddy looks a quality player, Taylor's defensive side is so much stronger now, just lacks going forward. Thought Marvellous grew into the game and looked good. We still look on the toothless side up front, we'll have to have patience with Wesley.

[Le Lapin]

Grealish is not the player that he or we think he is.

[Steve67]

West Ham failed to have a single shot on target iirc.  Defensively, we are seemingly ok.  The midfield was pedestrian at times and way too slow to move the ball.  Urgency is the word.  Wrong choices and sloppy passing will get punished.  Neither of the two potential penalties was a penalty in my view.  The referee is a twat.  Marvelous was pretty good but Luiz slowed us down and looks a bit chunky to me. SJM was good but we are inconsistent going forward.   West Ham will be happier with the point and we have to be much more ruthless. I want Dean to alter the formation to 4231.

[CT Villan]

That second half was utter garbage. I'm struggling to find someone who had a good game...Engels, McGinn, Heaton maybe ?

Wesley, Jack, Guilbert and El Ghazi were poor.

[kippaxvilla2]

I can see Wesley having some fun against Luiz next weekend mind.

[themossman]

Not good enough.

Jack was rubbish by his standards. So was SJM. We look so clueless against a decent defence that stands our attackers up.

We’re desperately lacking flexibility in the squad. No options up front, one proper wide player who can’t be relied on to put in a shift.

And smith looking like he struggles to change the tactics up when he needs to.