#FT: Aston Villa 4-1 West Ham United
Venue: Villa Park
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Aston Villa
Emiliano Martínez, Pau Torres, Ezri Konsa, Lucas Digne, Matty Cash, Douglas Luiz, Boubacar Kamara, Nicolò Zaniolo (Leon Bailey), John McGinn, Ollie Watkins, Moussa Diaby (Youri Tielemans).
Subs: Bertrand Traoré, Calum Chambers, Clément Lenglet, Robin Olsen, Diego Carlos, Omari Kellyman, Leander Dendoncker.
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West Ham United
Alphonse Areola, Nayef Aguerd, Kurt Zouma, Emerson , Vladimír Coufal, Tomás Soucek (Mohammed Kudus), Edson Álvarez, James Ward-Prowse, Michail Antonio (Pablo Fornals), Lucas Paquetá (Danny Ings), Jarrod Bowen.
Subs: Lukasz Fabianski, Thilo Kehrer, Divin Mubama, Konstantinos Mavropanos, Saïd Benrahma, Angelo Ogbonna.
MATCH EVENTS | via ESPN
30' Goal! Aston Villa 1, West Ham United 0. Douglas Luiz (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ollie Watkins.
51' Goal! Aston Villa 2, West Ham United 0. Douglas Luiz (Aston Villa) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
54' Emerson (West Ham United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
56' Goal! Aston Villa 2, West Ham United 1. Jarrod Bowen (West Ham United) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Edson Álvarez.
67' Substitution, West Ham United. Mohammed Kudus replaces Tomás Soucek.
74' Goal! Aston Villa 3, West Ham United 1. Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by John McGinn with a through ball.
76' Substitution, Aston Villa. Leon Bailey replaces Nicolò Zaniolo.
85' Substitution, Aston Villa. Youri Tielemans replaces Moussa Diaby.
86' Substitution, West Ham United. Danny Ings replaces Lucas Paquetá.
89' Goal! Aston Villa 4, West Ham United 1. Leon Bailey (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Youri Tielemans.
90' Substitution, West Ham United. Pablo Fornals replaces Michail Antonio.
Villa looking pretty solid for a top 8 finish
Two points off City atm, playing without key players who are injured since the start of the season (but should be back in the new year), no reason why we can’t be in the top 4-5
Because there are 4-5 teams better than Villa.
Well there aren't.
United aren't better, Spurs aren't better but could get lucky with fixtures, Brighton aren't better, West Ham aren't better, Chelsea aren't better but even with fixtures are likely only to compete for 7th at this point, and Newcastle is a coin toss at best (and before you say they beat earlier in the season, we always share the points over both fixtures and we went into the season missing three key players, a list that has since grown).
Great point well made.