Villa vs West Ham | PL | 25.1.24 | Predictions and Match Thread

[stubbo-admin]

Match Centre:

Odds:
West Ham: 11/2
Draw: 7/2
Aston Villa: 4/7

Pre-Match Press Conference:
Official Press Conference

Tactical Preview: 
Babbling Irons

Watch-along:
Hammers Chat Watchalong

Streams:

SportHD 

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[goose]

What’s the point of wasting minutes on slow shit like Coufal & Cresswell?? Both are absolute liabilities.

We’re second to everything because our team is so slow.  We can’t press effectively because we’re so slow. We can’t threaten them because we’re so slow.

and somehow Potter thinks Coufal & Cresswell are the remedy to this.

I'd suggest he doesn't think they're the remedy...more that he doesn't think he has a remedy with what's available.

 

Exactly this. Which I feel many people are unwilling to grasp. 

Mings just fucking caught the ball. Doesn’t matter if he’s hurt. That’s a sending off. 

 

 

Oh I grasp it, but I’m not having that Casey could be worse than Coufal.

[fraser]

Should have booked Mings for that. Ooh I'm in pain so I'll stop the game by catching the ball

[violator]

He can't just catch the fucking ball 

[El Scorchio]

Can the commentators stop having a fucking pity party and talking about mings in hushed tones like he’s Bobby fucking Moore?

[goose]

Fuck me has Mings died or something?

should book the cսnt for deliberate handball.

[El Scorchio]

What’s the point of wasting minutes on slow shit like Coufal & Cresswell?? Both are absolute liabilities.

We’re second to everything because our team is so slow.  We can’t press effectively because we’re so slow. We can’t threaten them because we’re so slow.

and somehow Potter thinks Coufal & Cresswell are the remedy to this.

I'd suggest he doesn't think they're the remedy...more that he doesn't think he has a remedy with what's available.

 

 

Exactly this. Which I feel many people are unwilling to grasp. 

Mings just fucking caught the ball. Doesn’t matter if he’s hurt. That’s a sending off. 

[Sir Alf]

Coufal needs to be subbed. Walking liability !!

[Any Old Iron]

Sad to see how dominating Villa are compared to our Weak team.

 

 

We’d be a different proposition with Bowen and Summerville playing. I’d be confident of beating this lot if they were fit.

[stubbo]

What’s the point of wasting minutes on slow shit like Coufal & Cresswell?? Both are absolute liabilities.

We’re second to everything because our team is so slow.  We can’t press effectively because we’re so slow. We can’t threaten them because we’re so slow.

and somehow Potter thinks Coufal & Cresswell are the remedy to this.

I'd suggest he doesn't think they're the remedy...more that he doesn't think he has a remedy with what's available.

[stubbo]

Not good this. The squad deficiencies are so painful. Struggling to understand Coufal at RCB instead of Casey. Is Casey that far from being ready?

Also why not give Guillerme the Summerville role? Lads probably chomping at the bit to get out there and he worked hard forward and back when he came on in the last game. Raw, but he put a shift in for an 18 year old.

Also shame in Sullivan for dithering on Brobbey who could have been out there today if he hadn't been giving it the usual. Prick.
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[goose]

What’s the point of wasting minutes on slow shit like Coufal & Cresswell?? Both are absolute liabilities.

We’re second to everything because our team is so slow.  We can’t press effectively because we’re so slow. We can’t threaten them because we’re so slow.

and somehow Potter thinks Coufal & Cresswell are the remedy to this.

[El Scorchio]

Fucking hell I feel like I’m watching Villa TV the way these two commentators are going on. Minute’s silence for Mings. 

[nychammer]

It just feels like they can/will score any time they decide to pick up the tempo.

we will get some possession, but we're a bit blunt up front so its whether we can make it count, and yes it does feel like they'll  be able to carve our defence open a good few times. Hard to see them not adding more

[Elpojohn]

Sad to see how dominating Villa are compared to our Weak team.

[claypole]

I have seen better u12 goal kick routines. Needs massive improvement 

[goose]

It just feels like they can/will score any time they decide to pick up the tempo.

[ragingbull]

Kudus is rubbish so far constantly running down blind alleys giving the ball away not a team player.

[Mad Dog]

No running
no movement off the ball
No options to pass rather than slowly go backwards
gutless

Yep, things haven't changed at all

[Sir Alf]

Kudus needs to pass more !!

[El Scorchio]

I'd really like to know why it's so hard for us to come out the gates ready to play. Given our depleted squad, we can ill afford slow starts.

I think you answered your own question there. 

[El Scorchio]

Surely that was a foul on kudus. Ramsay just bundled him over

[kylay]

I'd really like to know why it's so hard for us to come out the gates ready to play. Given our depleted squad, we can ill afford slow starts.

[El Scorchio]

Cracks me up how Alvarez looks about 15 years older than he is. 

[nychammer]

we've actually settled a bit since that flurry of early chances. Kudus looks dangerous

[El Scorchio]

Been better since going a goal down.