Aston Villa v West Ham Post-Match Thread

[LeeB]

There we are. Just looking at the BBC report and we "held off" West Ham.

Honestly, the beeb coverage is staffed by utter simpletons.

[PeterWithesShin]

The longer they ignore us or write us off the better.

[RamboandBruno]

There we are. Just looking at the BBC report and we "held off" West Ham.

Honestly, the beeb coverage is staffed by utter simpletons.

Just read it, half annoyed and half what PWS just said

[VILLA MOLE]

The head injury rule is silly , they should just let the physio on and let them play on and if it is serious you then stop

Huh?

Stopping the game for every time there is a head injury

In Rugby physios just come on and the game continues

[Villa Lew]

Next 2 home games are Luton and Fulham win those we equal 1983 record, to beat it we need to beat Man City, no problem.

[Somniloquism]

There we are. Just looking at the BBC report and we "held off" West Ham.

Honestly, the beeb coverage is staffed by utter simpletons.

If you saw their predicted playing positions before kick-off based off the starting line-up, you are not that far off with that guess.

 

[Somniloquism]

The head injury rule is silly , they should just let the physio on and let them play on and if it is serious you then stop

Huh?

Stopping the game for every time there is a head injury

In Rugby physios just come on and the game continues

Why suddenly complain about a rule that has been around for about 20 years.

[eamonn]

Had a great view from the DE Upper in line with the penalty spot, brought an Argentinian mate along for his first Villa game.
Cracking result and mostly a great performance. Would like us to handle a setback better - like with Brighton, we got jittery at 2-1 and Ollie again scored a third against the run of play at the time but overall we were good value for the win.

Was in the middle of Wham fans on the train across. One of 'em was pounding the ceiling that hard, I thought the train mightn't leave.
Thoughts and prayers for the Knees Up Mummy Brown lot.

[RichardBatchelor]

That was ace!

Douglas Luiz and Ollie will rightly take the plaudits, but Kamara was MOM. I swear he did not misplace a single pass or mistime a single tackle. His sense of positioning was perfect throughout. Incredible display.

Konsa and Bailey also amazing - all of them really.

[Monty]

In the end, a not-maximally-fluent performance against a genuinely good team yielded a genuinely sound win. That's a scarcely believable situation to be in when you think about our recent history. Unai Emery is a genius,

[charlatan]

I just knew he was going to smash the ball down the middle for the pen. He puts it where he wants and no goalkeeper will have a clue where he's going to put it.

Good job the opposing keepers don't have your insight.

[Somniloquism]

Fun fact. After 9 league games we now have more points than we did for the entire 38 game 2015/16 season.

Only 5 goals shy of beating total goals scored that season as well.

[Risso]

There we are. Just looking at the BBC report and we "held off" West Ham.

Honestly, the beeb coverage is staffed by utter simpletons.

Just read it, half annoyed and half what PWS just said

I think people are being a bit unnecessarily precious here and taking things completely out of context.

"Aston Villa continued their fine form under manager Unai Emery by holding off West Ham to move back to the brink of the Premier League's top four.

Other snippets from the report:

An entertaining first half, typical of the free-flowing football Emery has encouraged at Villa Park,

Before Emery's first game in charge, Villa were 16th in the Premier League - one point off the relegation zone. But he steered them to European qualification last season and now they are back within a point of the Champions League places.

That doesn't seem like we're being written off or ignored.

[The Edge]

Second top scorers, and Luton to come next week. Fucking ace.

Most Villa thing ever would be to lose at home to Luton!

But this is Emery's Villa!

This villa team is totally different. With these lads "the most villa thing" is irrelevant. Long may it continue

[charlatan]

The head injury rule is silly , they should just let the physio on and let them play on and if it is serious you then stop

Huh?

Stopping the game for every time there is a head injury

In Rugby physios just come on and the game continues

Why suddenly complain about a rule that has been around for about 20 years.

Why not? If it has been wasting lots of people's time and making games marginally less enjoyable to watch for two decades, that's no reason why it should continue to do so.