Aston Villa v West Ham Post-Match Thread

[Percy McCarthy]

Great performance against a team in form (until today) and fighting for their lives. We gave them no encouragement whatsoever, playing the perfect game. Well done Villa.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Best performance by a mile since at Newcastle, tempo from the first minute was spot on. They made more of a game of it after half time but we should have had the game done by then. Motm - I'll go with Barkley or Ollie. Great to have Tielemans back.

Martinez 7, Cash 7, Konsa 7, Torres 8, Digne 8, Onana 8, Barkley 9, Sancho 7, McGinn 8, Rogers 6, Ollie 9.

Emery 9, faith in the squad validated in the past week. Far less rigid set up up front helped, front four performance today v likes of Wolves or Lille away were worlds apart.

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Erm…I agree with almost all of it. Someone get to Bronte’s and make sure he’s not dead and someone else hasn’t posted in his place.

Rogers 6 and Watkins 9, did he only watch the goal highlights? I'd give them both a 7. Too many chances wasted especially first half when we could on a more clinical day have been 4 or 5 up.

Defence and midfield had a good day, up front West Ham with their 3 at the back gave us so much space and allowed the tactics Watkins loves - loads of space to run at the defence. Sadly some of our finishing was extremely poor or over thought. Thankfully SJM was there to lead the way. A very welcome 3 points and a big improvement on some/most of the games this year.

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[Toronto Villa]

Best performance by a mile since at Newcastle, tempo from the first minute was spot on. They made more of a game of it after half time but we should have had the game done by then. Motm - I'll go with Barkley or Ollie. Great to have Tielemans back.

Martinez 7, Cash 7, Konsa 7, Torres 8, Digne 8, Onana 8, Barkley 9, Sancho 7, McGinn 8, Rogers 6, Ollie 9.

Emery 9, faith in the squad validated in the past week. Far less rigid set up up front helped, front four performance today v likes of Wolves or Lille away were worlds apart.

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Erm…I agree with almost all of it. Someone get to Bronte’s and make sure he’s not dead and someone else hasn’t posted in his place.

Rogers 6 and Watkins 9, did he only watch the goal highlights? I'd give them both a 7. Too many chances wasted especially first half when we could on a more clinical day have been 4 or 5 up.

Defence and midfield had a good day, up front West Ham with their 3 at the back gave us so much space and allowed the tactics Watkins loves - loads of space to run at the defence. Sadly some of our finishing was extremely poor or over thought. Thankfully SJM was there to lead the way. A very welcome 3 points and a big improvement on some/most of the games this year.

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Yep. Why I said I agreed with almost all of it. Ollie an 8 for me as his movement caused them problems and gave us room in the middle. He looked much more himself today.

[Nev]

Marvellous.

And to all those moaners who wanted us to bust a gut against a side we were already a goal up on, who said we were fucking shit, and it was awful on Thursday, perhaps you'll see what the manager was doing?

It's been a bad run, not unexpected and we're not home and dry yet but I I'll put my money on Emery every day.

UTFV.

[brontebilly]

Thought West Ham looked every inch a team destined for relegation. Fernandes is highly rated but hardly had a kick in midfield today. Diouf at left back has a mean cross on him. Bowen was poor too, Onana took ball off him very easily for our second. Wilson, Wan Bissaka, Soucek, Disasi, that keeper - they will do very well to stay out of it.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Thought West Ham looked every inch a team destined for relegation. Fernandes is highly rated but hardly had a kick in midfield today. Diouf at left back has a mean cross on him. Bowen was poor too, Onana took ball off him very easily for our second. Wilson, Wan Bissaka, Soucek, Disasi, that keeper - they will do very well to stay out of it.

I was shocked at the lack of fight from West Ham, I really expected them to sweat blood like Leeds did here but they were so deflated and tactically got it so so wrong. They played to our strengths. Bowen will be off in the summer, not only is he knackered propping them up every week, his father in-law hinted at it the other day.

[JUAN PABLO]

Great to have him back.

FFS  dont let him back on ref

[cdbearsfan]

Pretty excellent all round. Two-nil massively flattered them.

[DrGonzo]

What a lovely day out.

[RamboandBruno]

Was an archetypal Emery Villa peformance. We bossed them from start to finish. Everyone had a blinder including the subs, bit Torres, although not motm, just makes such a difference, we play 20 yards higher up the pitch with him in the side.

With McGinnand Youri back, feeling really confident about the end of the season… top 4, Europa league snd spurs going down anyone!!

[Steve67]

Good win, two nicely taken goals and a clean sheet.  No-one performed badly, even Bailey worked hard.  I thought Onana was excellent but most of them were.  Good to have a bit of a gap between 4th and 5th/6th.  Played some lovely stuff and deserved more goals.

[wince]

Meatball made the difference. Nice weekend let’s push on

[andyh]

Going into April we are strongly positioned in 4th and looking up in the league and in the quarter finals of a major European competition.

It all looks so so much rosier.

[Toronto Villa]

A solid weekend, and just saw our young lasses also won at Leicester. All coming up Aston Villa.

[Nii Lamptey]

Team play with a bit more purpose, more haste..... and surprise, surprise, Villa Park creates an atmosphere! It's not rocket science.
MUCH better today. From someone that's feeling a bit disenchanted with football in general, I really enjoyed that this afternoon.

7 games plus Europe to go, with both McGinn and Tielemans back in action, and Watkins starting to look like he could be playing himself into some sort of form. Please God let this be the season we finally get something over the line!

 UTV.