West Ham vs Aston Villa post match thread

[Dave]

Balls.

[LukeJames]

The 2 goals we conceeded were pathetic.

[ktvillan]

Unbelievable.  Two very winnable games running where we’ve played decent football, shot ourselves in the foot with a combination of shoddy defending and abysmal finishing, and then got fucked over by VAR in both.
Trezeguet misses yet again, Watkins and Konsa miss free headers and then we can’t even convert a penalty.   I don’t know if I should be concerned that we can play well against mediocre teams and still contrive to lose.
I was in favour of VAR but the refs operating it are fucking idiots of the highest order, and because of them it’s time to fuck it off – which is what I think they have wanted all along.

[Toronto Villa]

We played really poorly at times and really well. We deserved to take something from that game. Hourihane needs to not complain about being dropped because he was awful. Trezeguet is the one of the most wasteful players I can remember playing for us. 4 defeats in 5 now. Not good at all.

[TaxDodger]

VAR has killed football.

[LukeJames]

The Barkley replacement needs to be Ramsey. Apart from Free Kicks Hourihane is invisible.

[Jon Crofts]

It’s not football anymore but that’s no excuse for not beating Gollum’s shitehawks, West Ham should be relegation fodder on that showing.

[manic-road]

Didn't deserve to lose but we didn't take the chances we had at key moments. West Ham only had two shots on goal and ended up in the net.
If we can dominate games like that for the rest of the season we will be ok.

Just hope we batter the Toon this week.

[wolfman999]

Is there a single fan, player or manager, just one, who thinks fucking VAR has given anything to the game. It’s destroying it.

[CT]

Two games running. Shouldn’t have lost the game in the first place and then fucked over by this game ruining pile of shit called VAR.

I didn’t even celebrate, an injury time equaliser. That’s what VAR does. Rips all the soul and spontaneous reaction out of the game.

Then we can all enjoy the slide rule lines and dotted ones on the armpits. It’s what modern football is all about.

I’m genuinely falling out of love with the game.

[sickbeggar]

Dean has to make a decision with the defence and shake things up because we're shipping goals like last season. i'd like to see someone dropped if he's got the bottle to do it. Defence cost us the game not VAR, or watkins miss. midfield poor. Grealish doing his party tricks and trying to beat half their team again. last season deja vu indeed.  I wouldn't mind so much but west ham were crap, really poor imo. Them being 5th is worthy of an episode of Arthur C Clarke's mysterious world (one for the kids etc..). Utter arse overall.

[ktvillan]

Carragher just pointing out Watkins was fouled before the disallowed goal - he should have gone down if Ogbonna had both arms around his neck

[LukeJames]

West Ham should be relegation fodder on that showing.

They were shit, absolutely awful. But we are always likely to give cheap goals away and they converted their only 2 chances.

[saint13]

How we lost this I will never know...and VAR is ruining football. Carragher has it absolutely right on VAR.

[PaulWinch again]

We’re developing a nasty habit of playing well, but being incredibly sloppy at the back and incredibly wasteful up front. It’s not good enough to start two halves of football like we did tonight. No good looking good and losing - we need to be much smarter and more resilient.