West Ham London - 1 Aston Villa - 1 The Post Match Thread.

[Drummond]

I always think a point away from home is good. You can see what we're trying to do, there's stuff to work on and improvements needed.

We missed Kamara, and I'd rather have had Dendoncker than Chambers. Coutinho would have been better than Bailey, and he needs to start doing it.

We've gained on Fulham and Brentford this weekend and lost out to Chelsea whilst maintaining position with Brighton. So overall its positive. Just a shame we couldn't capitalise and gain 3 points.

[Percy McCarthy]

Three points lost more than a point gained.

How do you figure that out?

In terms of our position relative to West Ham clearly

Yeah but we didn’t lose three points, seeing as we got one.

[aj2k77]

Bailey should be nowhere near this team. He was abysmal again. One of the dumbest players to ever play for us.

[Risso]

Bailey should be nowhere near this team. He was abysmal again. One of the dumbest players to ever play for us.

He's absolutely abysmal. A no-trick pony.

[aj2k77]

Bailey should be nowhere near this team. He was abysmal again. One of the dumbest players to ever play for us.

He's absolutely abysmal. A no-trick donkey.

Fixed it for you.

[villadelph]

We completed 560 passes today, that’s a lot. West Ham played 43 long balls, that’s a lot.

I know which trajectory I would rather be on. Ollie and Duran both had two chances inside the 6yd box that were saved.. an astonishing penalty decision stole our points.

[Percy McCarthy]

Shit performance imo and we're struggling to score.

We have scored in 13 consecutive league games. When did we last do that?
The negativity is ridiculous

Negativity 

We've scored 3 in 3. That's not enough. We can't keep clean sheets every game.

3 in 3? How’s that for negativity? It’s 4.

[Neil Hawkes]

Good to see Bert back and hopefully he will start ahead of Bailey, who hasn't brought anything of note to the table for quite a while.
Chambers is not a great sub to come on and make a difference.
We really miss Kamara.
If that was a penalty, then the Buendia incident was also a penalty as he played the man not the ball, as always inconsistent referring.
We do have a resilience that's been a long time missing, that's a positive to build on.

[PeterWithesShin]

We play some lovely stuff at times, we've scored in all 13 league games Emery has been in charge and compare that to 6 goals in the first 11 under Gerrard. 7 points from the last 9 and a decent away point that was decided by 2 penalty decisions in a match that more than half on here thought we'd lose and 20% thought we'd win. There's way more positives than negatives.

[J]

Thought we played quite well overall but we need a better player to play up top with Watkins. McGinn has played very well the last few games.

[Toronto Villa]

It was a bit of a grind. We don’t match up well against West Ham as they are physical and strong. The penalty was dodgy as fuck and we should have for one for an equally innocuous. But we didn’t look in danger too often and we continue to become more disciplined defending as a team. Lots of improvements to be made. I think Europe is a little out of the question now even if we are close but we will get a good top 8-10 finish which is progress. We started so far back of where we are now in terms of performance and results which shouldn’t be forgotten.

[aj2k77]

That's a more than fair point. We keep possession now and actually try to play football. We're on a totally different trajectory than we were 5 months ago. Another day and another ref and we could quite easily have won that 3-0/3-1.

[astonvilla82]

Bailey should be nowhere near this team. He was abysmal again. One of the dumbest players to ever play for us.

He's absolutely abysmal. A no-trick pony.

hopefully daddy arranging a transfer for about 30 million, one again disappointed and sure Emery sees it week after week

[The Man With A Stick]

As for Gale, he surpassed himself in the second half, particularly when he all but said Gerrard was a better manager than Emery.

I watched a Spanish feed when I heard that insufferable bellend was on commentary, which was a massive improvement.  Thought we did alright, probably a fair result and we'd have lost that under Gerrard, we'd have collapsed like a cheap tent.

[tomd2103]

Not a bad result, but a pretty average performance.  Created some good situations, but a lack of quality let us down time and again.