West Ham v Aston Villa post match

[Percy McCarthy]

We missed McGinn. I have no idea why such an obvious handball at the end took nearly eight minutes to be given but they got it right in the end.

Emery 4 - got out of jail big time today. Wretched team selection and formatiom should have finished us. All the changes worked to get the point but should never have come it. He's tinkering far too much in recent games

Games played - 43
Games left - at least 11.
ACLs - 3
Captain - suspended.

Why on earth is Emery ‘tinkering’ I wonder?

There is no justification for the back four that started today. Nor playing two up top. Konsa at RB, Lenglet at RCB 😕 Emery has plenty of credit in the bank, that goes without saying, but he's had a nightmare last two games..

4-0 & 1-1. Keep the nightmares coming Unai.

[stubbsyandy]

He really is a shit manager..

[Percy McCarthy]

He really is a shit manager..

Dreadful.

[PaulWinch again]

I think it’s ok to acknowledge Unai has made a few questionable decisions of late, without leaping to that meaning anyone is saying he’s hopeless or that type of nonsense. He’s been absolutely brilliant for us, he’s a top manager, but he’s not infallible. The last two league games there have been some odd tactical calls.

[VillaTim]

There was absolutely no reason to start Lenglet today. He's been fine as a back up to Torres, but that's all he is. We looked so much better when we reverted to our best back four of Cash, Konsa, Torres and Digne. Moreno has been poor for ages now. He's more attacking than Digne, but he's about as good at defending as Bailey is. Duran showed that to be in this team, you've got to be able to add a lot more to proceedings and we looked miles better when Diaby came on.

Still, I'd have grudgingly settled for a point there, but for the second game in a row now, Emery has got the starting line up all wrong, and it's costing us.

Pretty accurate summary this. We did well in the end to get a point but you have to wonder what we'd have got if we started the game with cash Diaby Digne and Zaniolo on the field.

[Ian.]

Also I like Moreno, he did great last year but my god he’s poor at the moment. Looks frustrated all the time too, so I imagine he’s aware.

He’s missing that connection with Ramsey I reckon. They were good together and made each other look better. I’d certainly play Digne at the moment.

[Ian.]

We missed McGinn. I have no idea why such an obvious handball at the end took nearly eight minutes to be given but they got it right in the end.

Emery 4 - got out of jail big time today. Wretched team selection and formatiom should have finished us. All the changes worked to get the point but should never have come it. He's tinkering far too much in recent games

Games played - 43
Games left - at least 11.
ACLs - 3
Captain - suspended.

Why on earth is Emery ‘tinkering’ I wonder?

Stop being so logical!

[Percy McCarthy]

I think it’s ok to acknowledge Unai has made a few questionable decisions of late, without leaping to that meaning anyone is saying he’s hopeless or that type of nonsense. He’s been absolutely brilliant for us, he’s a top manager, but he’s not infallible. The last two league games there have been some odd tactical calls.

Or maybe he’s learned a thing or two about managing players’ minutes in the five long seasons he’s got to European finals and semi-finals with clubs the size of Villareal and Seville.

[edgysatsuma89]

Fuck knows how ours wasn’t a pen. He had his arm out pointing.

Didn't Bailey deliberately flick the ball up to his arm?

I don't think it was deliberate as he was trying to play Konsa through who had made the run. But as the arm was out for the pointing before the ball was played, the ref decided it wasn't deliberate. Another day.......

It just isn't a massive howler for me, if anything my instinct was that it wasn't a pen. I think a draw was probably a pretty fair result. A point away at 7th is fine.

[Aldridge Villa]

Please no more of Konsa at full back. Cash in, lesson learnt for the umpteenth time.

[tomd2103]

Not a bad point on the whole to be honest.  Puts us 3 points ahead of Spurs and 9 ahead of Manchester United, which is more like 10 given our much superior goal difference.

Second half was much improved after a largely poor first half and we could have even maybe nicked it.  We do look increasingly shaky defending set pieces and suppose we were a bit lucky that those twins disallowed goals hot their arms when they might have bounced off anywhere.

Thought Diaby looked sharp again when he came on today and Cash also did well.  Does raise the question of why both didn't start though.

[Risso]

I think it’s ok to acknowledge Unai has made a few questionable decisions of late, without leaping to that meaning anyone is saying he’s hopeless or that type of nonsense. He’s been absolutely brilliant for us, he’s a top manager, but he’s not infallible. The last two league games there have been some odd tactical calls.

Or maybe he’s learned a thing or two about managing players’ minutes in the five long seasons he’s got to European finals and semi-finals with clubs the size of Villareal and Seville.

Why would Cash or Digne need their minutes managing?

[VillaTim]

Watching that Wham team, I was having flashbacks of us under O'Neill. And not in a good way.

trying to work out who their Nigel Reo Coker was .

[PaulWinch again]

Maybe he has, doesn’t change the fact we didn’t play particularly well in the league games. It’s ok to question decision making, without that being construed as being anti-Emery (which would be mental).

[Somniloquism]

I think it’s ok to acknowledge Unai has made a few questionable decisions of late, without leaping to that meaning anyone is saying he’s hopeless or that type of nonsense. He’s been absolutely brilliant for us, he’s a top manager, but he’s not infallible. The last two league games there have been some odd tactical calls.

Although as Fulham showed, taking the game to Spurs is better, the first half tactics were working to some extent. We had the better chances first half and Spurs had little. If we hadn't shit the bed straight into the second half and with Van der Ven going off, I think we would have done something in the match. Instead we were suddenly 2-0 down and chasing the game, McGinn had his rush of blood and that was the match thrown.