West Ham 2 - 1 Aston Villa Post Match

[jwarry]

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[Pete3206]

I think some comments about the stadium are a bit over the top. I thought it was OK, not a world class effort like the Spurs ground, but decent enough. Atmosphere from the home crowd was non existent.

Also cheers to those who gave me travel advice. Walk from Euston to St Pancreas and direct train to Stratford was a doddle. 

[saunders_heroes]

I think some comments about the stadium are a bit over the top. I thought it was OK, not a world class effort like the Spurs ground, but decent enough. Atmosphere from the home crowd was non existent.

Also cheers to those who gave me travel advice. Walk from Euston to St Pancreas and direct train to Stratford was a doddle. 

I sat about 7 rows from the back and I reckon I’d have had a better view from the international space station. A dreadful stadium which is just not fit for football. I don’t think I’ll be going there again. The only good thing was the tube from Stratford station. Trains nearly every other minute. Brilliant stuff.

[ChicagoLion]

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Well done to everyone who did this.
Class.

[The Edge]

I think some comments about the stadium are a bit over the top. I thought it was OK, not a world class effort like the Spurs ground, but decent enough. Atmosphere from the home crowd was non existent.

Also cheers to those who gave me travel advice. Walk from Euston to St Pancreas and direct train to Stratford was a doddle. 

I sat about 7 rows from the back and I reckon I’d have had a better view from the international space station. A dreadful stadium which is just not fit for football. I don’t think I’ll be going there again. The only good thing was the tube from Stratford station. Trains nearly every other minute. Brilliant stuff.

Surely they could do something similar on matchdays at Witton and Aston stations? That would go a long way towards easing the congestion.

[sid1964]

We are a mid-table team at the moment. We have a mid-table manager who wins a few and loses a few. The difference between us and West Ham yesterday was the managers. We can bring in who we like but it won't make much difference until we have a manager who can grind out points and win ugly.

[Brazilian Villain]

We are a mid-table team at the moment. We have a mid-table manager who wins a few and loses a few. The difference between us and West Ham yesterday was the managers. We can bring in who we like but it won't make much difference until we have a manager who can grind out points and win ugly.

To be fair to Gerrard, Moyes has an inherent advantage when it comes to 'winning ugly'.

[coreyfeldman]

We are a mid-table team at the moment. We have a mid-table manager who wins a few and loses a few. The difference between us and West Ham yesterday was the managers. We can bring in who we like but it won't make much difference until we have a manager who can grind out points and win ugly.

Oh please - they have a much more experienced team than ours and have been together as a group for much longer. They also have a very experienced manager with 2 quality holding midfielders - we have a manager who has been in the role since November and this is his first taste of premier league. He's learning.

[Brazilian Villain]

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Well done to everyone who did this.
Class.

Agreed, classy gesture. Well done all!

[Brend'Watkins]

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Well done to everyone who did this.
Class.

Agree.  We do have some proper idiots following the team away unfortunately but the majority are good people and that clearly showed here.

Antonio wouldn't have ever scored such a goal had he stayed on the pitch.  It really was an exceptional finish by Yarmolenko, quick thinking and very quick feet. 

I'm not too disheartened by the defeat but as others have pointed out, changes should have come sooner and as Chris pointed out the ref allowed them to rough us up a bit too much by letting loads of over physical stuff go unnoticed.   

[rougegorge]

I think some comments about the stadium are a bit over the top. I thought it was OK, not a world class effort like the Spurs ground, but decent enough. Atmosphere from the home crowd was non existent.

Also cheers to those who gave me travel advice. Walk from Euston to St Pancreas and direct train to Stratford was a doddle. 

I sat about 7 rows from the back and I reckon I’d have had a better view from the international space station. A dreadful stadium which is just not fit for football. I don’t think I’ll be going there again. The only good thing was the tube from Stratford station. Trains nearly every other minute. Brilliant stuff.

West Ham have made little effort or contribution to the stadium itself. Ridiculously, they just got it on the cheap like Manchester City who have have leased 'their' ground from the council for years. The owners won't care much about the fact that it is not a football stadium as the club continues to reap the benefits of a new bigger stadium and in a better location as a result.  It should be called the 'Taxpayers Stadium' not the 'London Stadium'. 

[The Edge]

We are a mid-table team at the moment. We have a mid-table manager who wins a few and loses a few. The difference between us and West Ham yesterday was the managers. We can bring in who we like but it won't make much difference until we have a manager who can grind out points and win ugly.

Steven Gerrard is a mid table manager? Bloody hell give him a chance. We have no idea yet what he is capable of. Nobody does. All we can do is get behind him and hope for the best. He could turn out to be the next Alex Ferguson or he could turn out to be the next David "honest bunch of lads" O'leary. Let's give him the chance to show us what he's capable of. I see something in him that I like and I'm convinced that he knows what to do to push us up the league to where we all want to be.

[Drummond]

I was not jumping round my living room when Yarmolenko scored (it is not as though he was leaving straight after the game to take up arms with his fellow Ukrainian country men, to defend his homeland, like so many others have done!)

If Yarmolenko or another Ukrainian had scored the winning goal for that lot across the city in a cup game, how many would be applauding him then?

Whenever I watch the Villa play, I want the opposition players to have the worst games of their careers

The only opposition player I have applauded was Cryuff, he was unbelievable in that game at Villa Park.

Nah, there are times when players deserve more than dog's abuse.

[Monty]

As ever, it's big time to think of the big picture. Football is football, and what Yarmolenko and every other Ukrainian (as well as Syrian, Yemeni and all other victims of war in the world) must be going through is something else altogether.

[SoccerHQ]

We are a mid-table team at the moment. We have a mid-table manager who wins a few and loses a few. The difference between us and West Ham yesterday was the managers. We can bring in who we like but it won't make much difference until we have a manager who can grind out points and win ugly.

Oh please - they have a much more experienced team than ours and have been together as a group for much longer. They also have a very experienced manager with 2 quality holding midfielders - we have a manager who has been in the role since November and this is his first taste of premier league. He's learning.

Weren't they doing an Everton two seasons back? Nearly went down with us in 19/20.

I get they're better than us, it's certainly one of the worst match ups for us these days in prem (think I'm more confident of getting a result off Liverpool than West Ham) but they really shouldn't be finishing 10-15 points clear of us which is looking likely for second straight season.