West Ham vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Dave]

Desperately one-eyed match report in the Graun. Jacob Steinberg is properly useless.

One-eyed how?! Fucking hell, did you see the game? That piece is pro-Villa propaganda.

I read it looking for the smoking gun for the egregious Bias Against Us, and then the piece ended.

Have they deleted a couple of paragraphs in the last hour?

[eye digress]

Desperately one-eyed match report in the Graun. Jacob Steinberg is properly useless.

One-eyed how?! Fucking hell, did you see the game? That piece is pro-Villa propaganda.

The original piece was all about the plucky Spammers and how they had been fortuitously denied by Villa. He has rewritten it significantly since first posting (as is typically the case, usually to add the manager quotes) - presumably the Spammer-centricity was pointed out to him by a sub-editor. You can still see traces of it, though:

This was Villa in fighting mode. They fell behind to the fastest goal in the Premier League this season, trailed 2-1 at half-time and were second best for long spells, but they refused to roll over.

That was not the game I watched, in which we had 60% possession, more attempts on target and control of the midfield from start to finish.

[eye digress]

Desperately one-eyed match report in the Graun. Jacob Steinberg is properly useless.

One-eyed how?! Fucking hell, did you see the game? That piece is pro-Villa propaganda.

I read it looking for the smoking gun for the egregious Bias Against Us, and then the piece ended.

Have they deleted a couple of paragraphs in the last hour?

Something like that, Dave.

[Dave]

If the worst journalistic crime is saying that we were second best for long spells, I can't remember many Villa games under Emery when that hasn't been the case.

We were "second best for long spells" in our easy, 4-0 win against Bournemouth. It's very much how we're set up to play.

Edit- to be fair, I've not watched a minute of today, due to an inconveniently-timed three hour drive down the M5. Maybe we were great for the whole match.

But a quick read of the match thread at half-time at a services, "second best" definitely seemed to be the prevailing (although, not universal) opinion half way through.

[algy]

Well, I think our xG is probably still a bit shit.


Thankfully, our xBangers is sky high, so that's that problem dealt with 

[Pete3206]

1st half terrible, 2nd a bit better but we found a way again to win.

Please make next Sunday, an intolerable bear pit for the opposition and smash them to pieces. I couldn't stand to see this run end against those utter cock, cnut, bell end wankers.

[eye digress]

If the worst journalistic crime is saying that we were second best for long spells, I can't remember many Villa games under Emery when that hasn't been the case.

We were "second best for long spells" in our easy, 4-0 win against Bournemouth. It's very much how we're set up to play.

Edit- to be fair, I've not watched a minute of today, due to an inconveniently-timed three hour drive down the M5. Maybe we were great for the whole match.

But a quick read of the match thread at half-time at a services, "second best" definitely seemed to be the prevailing (although, not universal) opinion half way through.

To be honest, I didn’t think that was the case today. We were behind for a while, but looked in control, as befits the slightly odd nature of their two goals against the run of play. The only time we looked under the kosh was the 15 or so minutes after the second equaliser. After which we scored and held them at arm’s length with ease, defending very well with control of the ball.

And as I say, the original piece was much worse.

[Sexual Ealing]

Desperately one-eyed match report in the Graun. Jacob Steinberg is properly useless.

One-eyed how?! Fucking hell, did you see the game? That piece is pro-Villa propaganda.

The original piece was all about the plucky Spammers and how they had been fortuitously denied by Villa. He has rewritten it significantly since first posting (as is typically the case, usually to add the manager quotes) - presumably the Spammer-centricity was pointed out to him by a sub-editor. You can still see traces of it, though:

This was Villa in fighting mode. They fell behind to the fastest goal in the Premier League this season, trailed 2-1 at half-time and were second best for long spells, but they refused to roll over.

That was not the game I watched, in which we had 60% possession, more attempts on target and control of the midfield from start to finish.

That was the game I saw.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Was otherwise engaged for the game so not seen anything. I managed to check the score around 60mins and was content with 2-2. To find out we won is great as a thought we’d draw. Some run were on, bring on Man U.

[paul_e]

1st half terrible, 2nd a bit better but we found a way again to win.

Please make next Sunday, an intolerable bear pit for the opposition and smash them to pieces. I couldn't stand to see this run end against those utter cock, cnut, bell end wankers.

1st half was terrible for both teams, neither of us created much or looked any threat. 2nd half we had a slight increase in effort and looked most likely to win for most of it.

[Stu]

We’ve hardly been part of the national conversation much over the last 30 years due to being mostly crap or average during that time.

Besides, Villa are getting talked about loads atm.

[eye digress]

Desperately one-eyed match report in the Graun. Jacob Steinberg is properly useless.

One-eyed how?! Fucking hell, did you see the game? That piece is pro-Villa propaganda.

The original piece was all about the plucky Spammers and how they had been fortuitously denied by Villa. He has rewritten it significantly since first posting (as is typically the case, usually to add the manager quotes) - presumably the Spammer-centricity was pointed out to him by a sub-editor. You can still see traces of it, though:

This was Villa in fighting mode. They fell behind to the fastest goal in the Premier League this season, trailed 2-1 at half-time and were second best for long spells, but they refused to roll over.

That was not the game I watched, in which we had 60% possession, more attempts on target and control of the midfield from start to finish.

That was the game I saw.

Fair enough

Personally, I thought we were a class above them and thoroughly deserved to win.

[kippaxvilla2]

I honestly think that in a lot of these games against lower ranked sides he’s setting us up to to expend the minimum energy possible to get the job done.  Our squad is being managed like no other season before. 

[Ian.]

I honestly think that in a lot of these games against lower ranked sides he’s setting us up to to expend the minimum energy possible to get the job done.  Our squad is being managed like no other season before. 

It’s what’s he’s been doing ever since we first qualified for Europe, we’re just getting better at this.

[TonyD]

Next Sunday is massive.
A win is crucial.
And because I hate the feckers.