Ratings & Reactions: West Ham v Villa

[Mantis]

Just now, osmark86 said:

Yeah they were cuddled by the officials the entire game and it cost us 3 points. Ref decided the game for me.

Happens literally every game. I really don't know why they always the decisions.

[Davkaus]

1 minute ago, sidcow said:

 

Need a NSFW warning if you're going to post pictures of words removed

[Villa 59]

No more Bailey or Ramsey...both rubbish imo...Ming's superb and my motd

[AVTuco]

Tough to choose MotM. Gave it to Martinez for not wasting time.

Bowen was too hard to handle for Moreno and Digne. Not good when neither of your fullbacks are decent in defending.

Cash was horrid against Benrahma too. 

 

[sne]

I'll take it. Wasn't a great game from either side and we clearly missed Kamara. The under hit passes is really frustrating and negates most of the positives you aim to get by the slow build up and playing from the back. Happens time and time again and I hate it. We need to learn how to pass it with more pace but maybe some of these guys won't be able to. It's been an issue for years.

 Nice that we didn't lose and impressive that we managed to score for the PL 13th game in a row. They got a soft penalty and we didn't. It happens, a lot.

[TheMightyVillans]

Played some nice stuff in parts. First half should have been up. We are really just lacking that bit extra quality. We do some really nice passing and then breaks down at the end.

Bailey another nothing performance. He unfortunately holds us back every time he is on the pitch.

Our squad is so thin. If we can get to around 50pts by the end of the season then I think that would be a great result considering start of the season and the size of our squad.

[Junxs]

What is the point of VAR? If they can't see a blatant dive and overturn it as a clear and obvious error, then why is it even there?

And from a referees point of view, if you know VAR is there to catch your mistakes, then why would you give a penalty if you haven't seen a foul? surely if you miss a foul then you know VAR is there to catch it, so you should only be giving a penalty if you are certain there's a foul.. which he couldn't have been as there was no foul. 

Pathetic, why does the "best league in the world" have the worst referees and VAR's??

[markavfc40]

The only disappointment from today is the result as our play, especially the first half, deserved more than just a point. We have dominated that game by controlling possession, 60%, but more than that we controlled the pace of the game.

That is 4 points now from two really tough away games against teams fighting for their lives and both heavily reliant on their home form. No complaints from me other than we deserved more today.

[JB]

Meh. 

Some nice attacking interplay at times but otherwise a pretty flat performance. It’s a shame as West Ham were crap. A better side would’ve punished our high line.

Thought McGinn and Mings played very well. 

[El Zen]

We weren’t very good and probably didn’t desvere more than a point, but the penalty bothers me. Joke of a decision. 

[Vive_La_Villa]

Decent point against a team we always lose too. Was never a penalty.

Edited March 12, 2023 by Vive_La_Villa

[PieFacE]

Good first half. Average second. Felt we created the better chances and probably should have won. Penalty was an utter joke of a decision 

[TheMelvillan]

Swap Bailey for Bowen and we win that by about 5! 
such a good player. Gutted we missed out on him

positives are getting minutes for Duran and Bertie who both did well

i actually liked buendias performance though saw some folk slagging him

meh result all round but never a penalty. Conceding corners make me incredibly nervous

[avfc1982am]

2 back to back MOTM for McGinn. A solid if not convincing performance and a point. It could've been worse. 

[Lerner's Driver]

A slightly disappointing result, but further evidence of the playing style taking shape and another decent point.

Without doubt, the biggest advance and thing of utmost wonder, is our control of the football, it is sexy and in complete contrast to what we have had to put up with for much of my adult life.

We are already a very good away team indeed and once we are fully formed, we are going to be James Brownesque.

Thank you Unai and well done boys!

[TheMightyVillans]

If you are giving a penalty for the foul on paqueta you should be giving a pen on buendia...

[nick76]

Meh game, you can see we lack some quality.  A number of players looking poor, softest of soft penalties and either team could’ve pinched but a draw seems fair.  A game to forget and nobody really comes out looking great but another point against a club we seem cursed against so not too bad.

[Ouchmefoot]

The co-commentator was biased to the point is was almost funny. When Martinez was kicked in the hand he said "Martinez jammed his hand into the defender and injured himself".

 

[Vive_La_Villa]

Some of our fans think we should just turn up and win these games. 

[Leeroy]

Ramsey and Bailey the poorest players in the team today and quite often are. Think I'd rather have Aaron Ramsey than Jacob at this moment in time.

 

Overall a point isn't too bad and stops our losing streak against these, but it's yet another game we haven't beaten them. We've taken as many points off West Ham in the last three seasons as we have against City, a far better side, and that just doesn't make sense.