Aston Villa vs West Ham post-match thread

[eamonn]

Even before the Mings injury, Potter tweaked things tactically after 15 minutes and we were never in control after that. I thought Unai's birds-eye view might give him a different perspective in how to wrestle the game back but our whole term was bird-brained for much of the game after.
We were lucky they are more hit by injuries than we are. I think they win that with Bowen playing.

[kippaxvilla2]

Pako out.

[taylorsworkrate]

Won't criticise Emery often, but he had better options than to move Digne to CB after the injury. Bogarde or Kamara would have been much better there.

[Beard82]

Disapointing - started well - but like to often this season only good in patches.  Story of our season - not a disaster but disapointing. 

I thought the ref did well to get progressively worse from a low bar - and sensible of potter to bring 19 off before his 5 booking. 

Digne at centre half was a fucking nightmare - lost all composure and easily his worse performance - compounded by matassen putting in 3 poor performance in a week. 

I thought that youri and Kamara were our best players.  Ramsey and Malden showed promise.  Obama and Barkley would have been handy.  Bailey needs to be out the team - it’s just not happening for him.  Beundia looked lively but lacked quality. 

[brontebilly]

Mings going off changed everything. Happy enough with a point in the end, we can't really expect to be winning PL games with no defender comfortable competing in the air. .

Positives - Konsa had his best game in a while, Ramsey was very strong. Bailey was decent I thought. Kamara strong yet again in midfield.

Negatives, Martinez was a joke, unsurprisingly we ran out of legs, Maatsen brutal again, limited impact off the bench in general but Emery got subs wrong again anyway. Rogers was dreadful and should have been first man off, not Bailey. No reason to take Ramsey off after playing 5 mins in Monaco. Instead we had likes of Cash and Tielemans completely gassed last 20 mins and all subs used.

[Aldridge Villa]

January to date we’ve managed to beat Leicester at home somewhat unconvincingly and been outplayed much of the time over 180 minutes against a West Ham team deprived of much of their cutting edge. Chuck Monaco into the mix and it all stacks up to mediocrity.

[steamer]

Garbage for 85 mins
Lack of intensity unbelievable.
We bring on fresh legs up front and play tippy tappy at the back. Twice we nearly conceded from fucking about.
Can you imagine, Ings nearly scored twice.
Martinez had some dodgy moments, but a special mention to Kamara who was outstanding.
Not sure you can totally blame the players as it is the way they are set up to play.
I guess the price of any centre back on our radar has just gone up.

[Herman]

Can't say I'm a big fan of players who have done the square root of nothing so far this season cupping their ear when they finally score. Reminds me not so fondly of Andi Weimann.

[dorsetvillian]

If Digne is at CH against Celtic god help us. Why Uni didn't tweek it during the 2nd half was strange. It seems obvious now that this squad can't compete with the demands of CL and top League prerformances. Lack of depth, experience and injuries are ultimately going to cost us this season and it could well fizzle out...

[SamTheMouse]

We've looked iffy for most of the season. The occasional quality game here and there only serves to emphasise how poor we usually look. It feels like we play with the handbrake on most of the time, and even then the players somehow manage to look exhausted.

It's starting to get a bit worrying, to be honest.

[PeterWithesShin]

Far too many games this season it feels we've played well for 15 mins and that's it. It's all well and good saving legs for April, not so good if you're out of contention for anything by then.

[VILLA MOLE]

Pako out.

he is unbeaten although Pants !!

[jwarry]

Absolute garbage. VillaTim, Dimitri C, Risso and Chicago Villa will be absolutely buzzing!

Ha ha, this! You’ ve must cheered me up mate

[Jon Crofts]

Absolute garbage. VillaTim, Dimitri C, Risso and Chicago Villa will be absolutely buzzing!

What’s that meant to mean?

[mr woo]

It's not very often I post anymore, because I'm rarely this annoyed and feel the need to get something off my chest.

If the club want to save some money and drop this team of so called data statistical analytic transfer experts then I'd suggest fuck them all off and give Dean Smith the job of recruitment and Emery the job of coaching.

Because at the minute it appears our strongest team is 20/21 minus Grealish plus Digne.

And don't get me started on how this 'professional' recruitment team has left us a centre back short going into a CL decider.

Sheer fucking incompetence.