West Ham vs Aston Villa Match Thread

[Tuscans]

Watkins is seeing a football for the first time.

[pelty]

Watkins has two anvils for feet 95% of the time.

[Mellin]

Watkins is actively both ruining attacks and putting us in trouble by holding on to the ball too long now.

[SamTheMouse]

Watkins is seeing a football for the first time.

Every time he gets it, you can see he doesn't know what to do with it. Takes way, way too many touches.

[Tuscans]

Get him off Unai. He's breaking up our own attacks.

[andyh]

Bizot is a decent shot stopper….but fuck me he’s bad on crosses

[AlexAlexCropley]

Watkins has two anvils for feet 95% of the time.

Maybe he's changed his boots.Remember Billy's Boots?

[cdbearsfan]

Since when is stopping a free kick being taken not a booking?

[Sexual Ealing]

Watkins is actively both ruining attacks and putting us in trouble by holding on to the ball too long now.

The way he always chooses the right self-checkout at Aldi though, nobody ever wants to give him the credit for that.

[Toronto Villa]

Bizot is a decent shot stopper….but fuck me he’s bad on crosses

Yeh it’s concerning. He does a lot of things really well but that’s a basic one. Especially playing in England where high crosses are always going to be an oft used tactic.

[wolfman999]

Bizot is a decent shot stopper….but fuck me he’s bad on crosses

The trouble is he seems much shorter than Emi so struggles with crosses that Emi just plucks out of the air.

[paul_e]

Watkins did linger on it a bit but I'm not sure how it wasn't a free kick, Ollie probably needed to throw himself to the ground.

In general getting free kicks from Taylor seems to largely rely on on being as dramatic as fuck with a few rolls or a scream thrown in.

[Toronto Villa]

Ollie will score in a minute. That’s the only thing that will help mask the deficiencies in his overall game right now.

[brontebilly]

Ollie needs to pull,his fucking finger out

Brutal getting caught offside there too

[kippaxvilla2]

In the hope that I jinx it positively Watkins is now a waste of a shirt.