Aston Villa v West Ham United Match Thread

[baddowvillans]

Time for Dean to step up and outthink Moyes.  We're not out of it by any means but we are not our normal flowing football

[Gerrin]

Not good.
El Ghazi stinking the place out I'm afraid.

He's not up to it against decent opposition.

[hipkiss92]

Sloppy first half, passing mot slick enough, West Ham finding it easy to nick the ball of us when pressing, soft free kicks being given away. 0-0 at half time good all round. Would like to see Sandon on for Barkley to give a bit more control on midfield and allow one of him Luiz or McGinn to pick up Lingard

[Villa Lew]

2nd best by a distance, I'd put Sanson on straight away.

[jcsutv]

Dawson looks so bad for them, but we aren’t putting any pressure on him.

[OzVilla]

Just not got going at all 1st half. Been bullied a little. Midfield just has no cohesion so far, Barkley have a bit of a stinker. West Ham been better all over.

[The Edge]

Well that was without doubt our worst half of the season. El Ghazi can not start the 2nd half. If he does it's a big mistake. Pure and simple. Soucek & Rice have ran the midfield. You have 15 minutes to sort this out Dean & Co or we will lose this game.

[Drummond]

We've been pulled about and out of position. They've been tough and resilient, very Moyes. I agree about Traore, it's another creative problem for them to solve. I reckon Sanson too,

[Olof's Beard]

We look knackered, maybe a game too far after 5 games in quick succession. El Ghazi has been poor, but you never know where he is suffering the effects of Covid. He hasn't been the only one anyway, Luiz and Targett way off their usual standard, even Jack and Konsa have been a bit naff and Roscoe is having one of his shockers too. Only Watkins has looked anything like at the races.

[PhilVill]

AEG off, sadly miles off the pace. Starting to have serious concerns about Barkley now and understand why Chelsea let him go. We very lucky to be nil nil bit some decent management now will pay dividends

[PaulWinch again]

Of course we’re missing Traore - defensively he’s been iffy, but his movement is excellent and he creates problems.

[Duncan Shaw]

Barkley and Ghazi very poor. Man marking Jack a master stroke and Lingard looks brilliant!

[tomd2103]

Been second best, but have still had a few decent chances.  Barkley looking sluggish (especially compared to Lingard who has looked very sharp) and El Ghazi has had a terrible half. 

Their whole game plan seems to be based around nullifying Grealish down our left, so why not move him into the middle?

Ref seems to be giving them everything as well.

[Scovilla]

Where is McGinn? Could we have a go with Sanson? I am pretty sure he'll want to prove something.

[andyh]

Started slow and poor, and gone downhill from there.
It looks like a lack of energy and drive throughout the team, leading to mistakes and poor judgment.
El Ghazi has gone back to being bloody shite.  He needs to be hooked now because he has done nothing to deserve his place.
There is a lack of movement which in turn is leaving Ollie isolated.

I hope Dean sees how poor this has been and gives them a wake up call at half time.