Ratings & Reactions: Villa v West Ham

[Brumerican]

28 minutes ago, rjw63 said:

 

I turned off when Ollie disappeared.

 

As did most of the Night watch.

[Zhan_Zhuang]

Just back to the hotel room after the game, drinks in the bar with family made it a late one.

Before the match I was apprehensive as we seem to not fare well against them, but I thought we dominated much of the play. They definitely aimed to not get beat, tried to keep things close.

As we arrived at the game I said I'd buy my son a kit (away white) but he was not sure of the name so he ran a few ideas and decided upon Douglas Luiz. I'm glad he did as he was immense, different class, he and Kamara ran the show. Did he hit the bar from the corner? Pretty unlucky not to get three. Regardless MOTM for me.

Thought Zaniolo looked decent too, created a few chances and showed some nice touches, skills.

Watkins looked sharp, dangerous, held the ball up with some lovely touches and passes. And a great finish for his goal and yet another assist.

Only my eight year old's second game yet he has seen a 2-0 win and now a 4-1 win, tis a pity we live outside of England but we'll have to get back more often.

Met a few players for selfies again like last time out, notably Martinez, Cash, Buendia, Diaby and McGinn. The latter is a great guy who chatted with people and seems like the most genuine and humble of people.

UTV 

[colhint]

2 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said:

11 wins at home in a row must be close to a record ?

Saw an interesting stat

With injury time that must be over 1000 minutes.

We have been behind 40 minutes.

[Hornso]

Taking three points of that lot

 

[Zatman]

Played 11

Won 11

Scored 31

Conceded 5 - One being a dodgy Kane penalty

[MWARLEY2]

I know its irrelevant in the big picture but if Ollie had put that header inside the post at Wolves with the last touch of the game we would be in 2nd now . 

[Jas10]

 

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[maqroll]

Am I the only one who thinks this was a somewhat disjointed team performance despite the comfortable scoreline? 

[briny_ear]

2 hours ago, rjw63 said:

Only one match played and we get under 13 minutes on MOTD2. Brilliant.

And why did they show all the goals from yesterday, that they must have already showed. Yesterday.

I turned off when Ollie disappeared.

 

They always show the goals from Saturday on MOTD2. It’s part of the format.What was your case for them to change that for this edition?

[briny_ear]

8 minutes ago, maqroll said:

Am I the only one who thinks this was a somewhat disjointed team performance despite the comfortable scoreline? 

Yes, I think you probably are.

[Jas10]

 

[WallisFrizz]

3 hours ago, maqroll said:

Am I the only one who thinks this was a somewhat disjointed team performance despite the comfortable scoreline? 

I’m glad we got the third goal because they were the stronger team at 2-1. They’re a good side so we were unlikely to be dominant for 90 mins so no I don’t think it was disjointed overall but we did look a bit dodgy for a while which has probably been forgotten by fans but Emery won’t have forgotten it.

[Frodo]

Do you know what ....... we could be sitting here bemoaning our injury list, Mings, Beundia, Moreno, Ramsey, that's the intire left-hand side of our team & sitting midtable or bottom half all saying we will climb the table when our injuries clear up. But we're not we have 4 big player out injured & we're sitting 5th 2pts off the summit, the scary thing is how good we will be when them 4 players are back in the sqaud, only under Emery is this possible he is elite he is world class in my eyes, enjoy it people because he won't be here for ever, I'm hoping a long time but I doubt we will see a better manger at our great club in my lifetime.

[Davkaus]

I think it's fair to say we'd be delighted with our current position even if we'd had no injuries at all. Can't quite believe how well we're doing all things considered.

Here comes another European game to drag us back to earth

[Kingman]

9 hours ago, allani said:

So 31 - 5 in our last 11 home matches!!

Or 37 - 7 if you include our recent 3 cup games 

[limpid]

9 hours ago, ozvillafan said:

 

• I didn't notice the ref during the game. That's the first time this season I can vote "Good" in the match poll with a clear conscience

There isn't a vote for the referee, the vote is for "refereeing" and VAR was appalling.

[tinker]

3 hours ago, WallisFrizz said:

I’m glad we got the third goal because they were the stronger team at 2-1. They’re a good side so we were unlikely to be dominant for 90 mins so no I don’t think it was disjointed overall but we did look a bit dodgy for a while which has probably been forgotten by fans but Emery won’t have forgotten it.

At 2-1 they piled forward and abandoned their plans to keep it tight at the back. They left huge spaces at the back and we fluffed our lines a few times with some poor final balls and some poor execution. Eventually we broke away and scored from one of these chances, we had about 3 failed breakaway in their period of pressure ( which didn't lead to any clear cut chances, did it?)

Why they abandoned their sit tight tactic at 2-1 is a bit of a mystery tbh, with hindsight they should have kept playing the way they was and try and hit us on the break. Instead they allowed us space at the back and despite us making hard work scoring the 3rd goal it was only a matter of time with the quality of our forward line. 

Special mention goes to Carragher who had a right rant at Zaniolo for staying down with a head injury, their was clearly contact with the back of his head on the replay, which he never seen or wanted to see,  idiot.