Aston Villa vs West Ham post-match thread

[django]

Mings injury was the turning point. But it obviously wasn’t working the way we set up after he went off.
Digne wasn’t working at all and it was causing panic throughout the defence. Emery should have changed that rather than just watching it play out. You could argue as we were winning for a good chunk of that time that we didn’t need to but we could all feel the change in momentum and it had an air of inevitability about it, again.

We seem to hang onto the ball a long time even in crossing positions so that when we finally try and move the ball it gets closed down. Infuriating.

I really hope that Real Madrid or someone don’t spot how much better Kamara is than the rest of our squad.

I don’t think I’m need to pay as much attention to other teams results as I have been.

[N'ZMAV]

did nothing after 8 mins - pathetic, passive, slow, disjointed.

[villadelph]

The first 20 minutes were fantastic. Constant pressing, winning second balls and getting into the final third. Mings goes off, we shift Digne inside and become unorganized. Combine that with no Unai on the sideline, I can understand why we became so lackluster.

Combination of unfortunate circumstances today.

Cash really needed to help Malen as the senior player. They were poor when called on to defend together. The back post was a freebie. 

I have no idea how we landed Kamara. The guy just goes about his business, never shirks a tackle and dazzles in possession from back to front. He can play for any club he wants.


On to Celtic!

[Rigadon]

Great first 10 mins, rally poor last 80.  Rubbish.

[PaulWinch again]

It doesn’t directly correlate but we basically lost all sense of control and coherence when Digne went to centre back. That is an error entirely of our making - leaving ourselves with two senior centre backs for a game (voluntarily) has probably cost us two points. I don’t tend to comment on refs but Bankes was awful.

Bouba - magnificent as always.
Emi - really poor, incredibly shaky and lucky not to lose us the game at the end. He’s made some amazing saves this season, but his general level/decision making has been off.


Another game where we completely lost our way. Not good enough.

[Nii Lamptey]

First 15 mins. Brilliant.
The rest, you could see it coming and lucky to get the draw in the end.
Digne and Maatsen shocking, Duran demonstrating exactly why he is Ollie’s understudy and absolutely not a starter. Offers nothing if he’s not scoring worldies. Needs to up the work rate MASSIVELY.
Not shocked at the result…. Quite pleased with it tbh, as when Ollie, JJ and Rogers went off we offered absolutely nothing going forward.

Onto Celtic. DONT FUCK IT UP VILLA!

[SoccerHQ]

Rubbish performance, rubbish ref, rubbish result.

[VillaTim]

Do worry for Mings now and if that knee is ever going to be strong enough for the rigours of this league .

[KevinGage]

Might be one of those seasons.

In complete control, Mings cops an unfortunate one and we're lucky, in the end, to hold on to a draw against muck like that.

Danny Ings and Wan Bissaka looked almost Brazilian at times out there this afternoon. That's when you know you've got issues.

[PeterWithesShin]

Mings was first injured after half an hour but we were losing our way before that.

[VILLA MOLE]

It was  all a bit slow and indecisive for 80 minutes .

we made Wan Bissaka look like Cafu

[PaulWinch again]

Might be one of those seasons.

In complete control, Mings cops an unfortunate one and we're lucky, in the end, to hold on to a draw against muck like that.

Danny Ings and Wan Bissaka looked almost Brazilian at times out there this afternoon. That's when you know you've got issues.

Yeah but that point on Ings and Wan Bissaka is entirely on us. We had no control and defended dreadfully against them.

[JUAN PABLO]

Wanks ( Banks)  gave them everything and all the duels they won . Couldnt pass to our own players , Luca was terrible at CB with possession out and obviously Maatsen so the left side was dire .  Rogers should have been rested , keeps losing the ball .  Didnt think Ollie was too bad to be fair and Buendia needs to go ( heard he has a new contract).

Konsa was good to be fair , saved us a few times and Kamara give him a new contract quick.

If they had bowen and Summerville starting , we would have been in serious trouble and Martinez is having a weird season .

[Steve67]

Lack of pace, lack of movement, lack of creativity.  After 10 minutes, we went to shit and it was a painful watch.  The table doesn't lie.   Kamara was good but the rest of them, even Martinez were below par. 

[Jon Crofts]

The Mings injury was the turning point. Totally threw us and took the wind out of our sails .

You’re entitled to your opinion but that’s miles off.