The Official West Ham v Aston Villa Match thread

[Macca666]

Goal apart I think we look pretty poor, Bowen and Fornals not doing enough for me

Spot on, Bowen fornals and Antonio done very little

[Clayton]

This ref is a cunt

Of cause he is .

[HammerJammer]

HT 1-1

They were better than us in this half.

[Clayton]

They appear to have so much more pace , technique and creativity all over the pitch then us

[Dwayne Pipes]

A good kick up the arse needed for the second half.

[dagenhamdave]

Will Benny play this season???

[BlackDiamond]

They appear to have so much more pace , technique and creativity all over the pitch then us

Sometimes our methodical approach looks a bit stodge

You can set the team up "too much" in the managers image - if we are being honest

[Macca666]

Take fornals off for haller, only one team gonna win this if we don’t wake up.

[Whiskyman]

When will the penny drop that If we actually want to create something Fornals has to play more centrally?

Hmmm .

We are relying on long aimless punts upfield. At least Fornals has the ability to spot openings and play the ball into. We have no one else who seems capable of doing that.

I think we also have to question why Antonio is out there. He doesn’t appear to be fit and clearly wasn’t prepared to risk running hard after the ball down the left towards the end of the half.

[downunda]

I normally like Fornals but he is not getting into this game, very much the same for Bowen. This is isolating Antonio, we should replace one of those two with Benrahma or Lanzini pretty soon into the second half.