West Ham vs Aston Villa post match thread

[TheMalandro]

I’ve laughed, almost wept at how bad our club has been at times.

VAR is something else, I’m raging like a steroid-fuelled, small-balled bodybuilder.

Fuck VAR.

[adrenachrome]

we will be the better side by far in both games we play this week

the fact we wont win both means questions need to be asked as to why

The stats from our last 3 losses are quite astonishing. How we haven't won these games is indeed a question which should be posed. You could put one down to bad luck or a bad ref, but not all three.

[Bad English]

Leicester Pos. 4 P10 W 6 D 0 L 4 PTS 18
Aston Villa Pos. 10 P 9 W 5 D 0 L 4 PTS 15

I'd feel better if it weren't for Trezeguet missing 40 chances, Watkins taking a shit penalty, Covid-19 thos fucking bubbles after their goals and VAR.

[ChicagoLion]

Offside is not subject to clear and obvious.
You can not give the opposition 2 goals and expect to win at this level.
Why give the penalty kick to someone who is not very good at taking penalties.
How long can we expect Jack to hang around when we are looking at mid table mediocrity at best?
VAR is shit

[Hillbilly]

I detected a bit of frustration from Dougie with some of his teammates. They were not making forward runs into space to receive the ball from him. Thought he played really intelligently and dropped back several times into defence when Mings or Konsa meandered forward.

[Ian.]

We played well for the most part, two major lapses in concentration and another huge miss by Trez and Ollie. How they can rule his goal offside is an absolute shambles. Somehow the clubs and players need to come together and get rid of it. It’s an bloody joke. Every match it fails massively.

I’ve always said if two blokes in a studio with countless camera angles can’t agree how can we have that in a live event. It has to go back to basics, so much better.

[sid1964]

Watching last night - I think we need to hope that Jack does not get injured, without him we are going to struggle

[mr underhill]

VAR didn't cost us the game. Our defending and wastefulness up front did.

[Ads]

It’s another one of our bad streaks under Dean though.  Four out of five defeats against teams we need to compete with.  Friday starting to look pretty important.

Play well and lose soon becomes play bad and lose.
We go from optimistic to pessimistic.

Or play well, twat Newcastle. Seems more likely.

If the game goes ahead mind.

They'll be forced to put their under 16s out by the sounds of things.

Had to chuckle at report I've just read saying Newcastle want to postpone as Bruce won't have any time to work on tactics at the training ground!

Unexpected bonus then for the Gerodies.

[Ads]

VAR didn't cost us the game. Our defending and wastefulness up front did.

VAR has cost us 2 points in the past two games just as much as Tezuguet missing two open goals.

[Ian.]

VAR didn't cost us the game. Our defending and wastefulness up front did.

VAR has cost us 2 points in the past two games just as much as Tezuguet missing two open goals.

If course it has.  No difference, mistakes by us and the officials with their stupid toy.

[Ads]

I want two things to happen this weekend.

I want us to be fired up to smash Newcastle for one. Then I want VAR to give Fernandes a hatrick and Man Yanited (spit) to put 5 on those stone age cloggers and their fruity fucking bubbles.

[manic-road]

Not wishing to denigrate our goalkeeper, as I think he's looked like the best we've had in a while, but of the last 11 opposition efforts on target, he's had to pick 8 of them out of the net.

And of those 11 goals which do you think he could have saved? Leeds, Brighton and Southampton goals were unstoppable.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

It seems like football has been replaced by something called varball. While var continues as it is my appreciation for the game is diminishing. It may yet be up to the proper fans of all clubs to do something in protest about var because the decision makers are doing f-ck all.
Of course var impacted the result along with poor defending, concentration and striking within the penalty area. Whatever our defensive coach is doing it clearly isn't good enough to get the most from our back 4.
Points on the board was the least we deserved from that game despite all the failings.
Btw McGinn's form was awful last night. I'm still trying to work out what he contributed if anything.

[Des Little]

I can’t help but think that we are short on quality in the final third. I like Trez, he works hard but misses too many key chances. Similarly, El Ghazi is not good enough to come on at this level and impact the game when we need it...I was going to say similar for Traore, but it’s early days so will have to see BUT we do need something else in January, otherwise we’ll see a lot of chances going begging and frustration will become the norm.