Ratings & Reactions: West Ham v Villa

[richp999]

It's feels f*ucking terrible... But if we win our game in hand, we go 4 th.. 

[Mantis]

Just now, Rodders said:

4 defeats in 5. stop bleating about VAR. if we didn't defend like clearings in the woods and actually took our chances it would be a non-event. Only ourselves to blame. 

Altohugh VAR can still **** off. 

pretty ball possession means **** all. 

Jack will be fed up by January having potatos for team mates

Yes we should've converted our chances and we only have ourselves to blame for that, but the simple fact is that VAR are essentially rigging a sizable portion of games. At the end of the day it doesn't matter who benefits or who doesn't, it's totally wrong and morally unjustifiable.

[Rodders]

if we don't take chances i don't understand how we can be characterised as playing well, as our forward players clearly aren't playing well. they arent doing their jobs. 

[TreeVillan]

3 minutes ago, LondonLax said:

Was not our night. 

Trez missed a sitter. Watkins miss a penalty and VAR rules one out. 

Sure we've said that 3 times this season already? 

Anyways not that anybody gives a toss but I'm out. VAR can't keep ruining the game for me, and me to just accept it. Doubt I'll be back. 

[kidlewis]

Just now, Rodders said:

if we don't take chances i don't understand how we can be characterised as playing well, as our forward players clearly aren't playing well. they arent doing their jobs. 

14 shots and two on target, that’s really poor. 

[hippo]

1 minute ago, KentVillan said:

Not sure why Smith is taking any flak for this. We have absolutely battered them both halves, missed a pen, had goal disallowed, etc.

There is an issue with set pieces that needs looking at.

Not our night, but we looked much the better side, even with Barkley missing.

If tonight was a one off yes - but weve been letting in daft goals for a few games now - 

[Davkaus]

Just now, HanoiVillan said:

I hate football.

I don't. I hate the top flight and VAR.

When lockdown is over, I'll be going to watch my local non league team, not Villa. 

[JoshVilla]

2 games in a row waiting on a VAR call to rescue a point. We should not be putting ourselves in these positions. The defending was god awful for both goals, but we had more than enough chances to put this away and yet again we shoot ourselves in the foot.

 

However, being denied a point because our sleeves are longer is a bit of a sickener....

[Newry_Villan]

We had the chances we didn't take them. But VAR **** us for the point. Yes our own fault for allowing the goals but we can also blame the refs

Edited November 30, 2020 by Newry_Villan

[It's Your Round]

Just one of those days, again. Extremely frustrating that we dominated the game and still failed to win. That penalty goes in and I’m confident we would have won that. Same with the incorrectly ruled out Watkins goal. 

[turvontour]

That was all about inexperience, from start to finish. 

The positives of the youthful energy were the relentless performances of Liverpool and Arsenal. But tonight was the other side of the naivety.

You also notice that when we're crap and we lose we feel hard done by by VAR. It's amazing the luck you seem to get when you're playing well.

[Herman22]

2 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

You have to laugh at the irony of all of these refs starring at that still frame, and not giving a foul when it's far more of one than the penalty they actually gave.

It's an absolute farce

VAR isn't the problem, it's the donuts that are in control of it. They spend 5mins trying to figure out which part of the arm to draw a line from but don't give a clear foul. 

[Humanoid]

Why were they analizing for offside when the picture was clearly showing Watkins was being fouled?  The defender had his arm around him

 

[Nigel]

Its not even if West ham have mugged us there....they didnt play well enough to do that!

We are our own worst enemy; To concede a goal in the first few minutes is terrible, to do it again in the second half needs looking at!

Grealish and Doug were brilliant tonight, head and shoulders the best on the pitch. 9 times out of 10 that is enough to win a game, however we need our support players to do their bit. Unfortunately tonight a few fluffed their lines.

Really unlucky to lose that, even still!

Edited November 30, 2020 by Nigel

[Newry_Villan]

Richard Keys and Andy Gray fuming

[Wainy316]

Get that **** bollocks out the game I love now!

[Thug]

Can’t believe we lost that

[osmark86]

2 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

Wakins is clearly being pushed into an offside position yet no penalty check.

VAR is not being used correctly at all.

yeah he's obviously not running hunchbacky like he's **** Dracula, but LO AND BEHOLD the random number generator disguised as a decision making organ cannot see that and decide that a bloody elbow is a danger to the overall play as if people don't swing their arms when running. ABSOLUTE MUPPETS!!!!!!

[Lerner's Driver]

1 minute ago, dcdedi said:

4 defeats from 5. Keep dominating games. Feels unlucky but can’t consistently blame luck. 

Exactly. Has shades of Dimateo.

[blunther]

Well, I assume we all watch the football to see some word removed in a shed draw some lines on a screen, so we should all be happy tonight right? That's what it's all about at the end of the day.