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Post Match Thread: Aston Villa 4-1 West Ham United | English Premier League (alien.top)
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#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.

^____________________________

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.

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[–] elihri@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How did Villa get so good?! They were at the bottom of the table last season

[–] Fresh2Desh@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ditched Gerrard and brought in a very very good manager

[–] AaronStudAVFC@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And we thank you for your part in that.

[–] L__McL@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Fulham have done us a couple of favours by beating us in recent years, not only did they get Gerrard sacked, they stopped us being a PL team owned by a crook, managed by Steve Bruce.

[–] AaronStudAVFC@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

God bless Fulham. ❤️❤️

[–] cuteguy1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I will forever cherish that playoff win but fucken ell thats a sliding doors moment. We were comical for a few seasons after that.

[–] Log-jammer@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Great match for neutrals. Greater match for Villains

[–] ziggylcd12@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

11 straight home wins. This place is a fucking fortress.

[–] ItzE0N@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

MASSIVE

[–] AjenoMerveilles@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It is a beautiful thing to watch Unai Emery cook, and from the moment he went to Villa, he has not only cooked, but opened a chain of restaurants.

Fans are not only paying for their meals, but leaving a hefty tip in the jar as they exit, bellies full, palette enriched.

(Eat your heart out, Mr Drury.)

[–] TheAkondOfSwat@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

He does actually own a restaurant

[–] FoxBox123999@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Villa looking pretty solid for a top 8 finish

[–] a_f_s-29@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] FoxBox123999@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

no reason why we can’t be in the top 4-5

Because there are 4-5 teams better than Villa.

[–] justsean09@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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).

[–] FoxBox123999@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Well there aren't.

Great point well made.

[–] DBCrumpets@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I’ve never seen a Villa team like this. I’m over the moon.

[–] xxGamma@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thought we were very good today, weathered the storm a little after conceding a flukey goal and stormed back In front.

Villa park is now a fortress, gotta be a contender for top 4/5 no?

[–] jxg995@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

How many times in the last 25 years would villa just crumble and draw or lose that? Concede fluke? Bottle it. But instead villa weathered the storm and accelerated with two more goals.

[–] Ofermann@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

We could be better than we were under Matin O'Neil. Potentially the best we've ever been in my lifetime. I can't lie, it's partly very stressful. Always feel like it's going to end at any moment. The Villa I know too well and it's going to be snatched away from me. It's very strange not being shit.

[–] archip00p@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

The OG claret and blues won today!

[–] LoverofBilbies@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Back up to 5th, 11 home wins in a row. Only two losses this season away to Liverpool and Newcastle. All this with Mings, Buendia, Ramsey, and Moreno injured.

Playing beautiful football, god I love Emery

[–] PepGodiola@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Where does Emery rank among Prem managers? Top 3 surely no?

[–] Mick4Audi@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

He’s better than Arteta, better than Pochettino, better than ETH

I’m waiting to judge on Ange, still early days

[–] Alive-Ad-4164@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Villa are flying

[–] TL_DRespect@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I said the same in the Villa sub, but asides from the obvious players, Konsa was fucking incredible today. Best I’ve ever seen him play. The fact he’s still waiting on an England call up is ludicrous.

[–] R3tardedmonkey@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Had some great moments, Antonio didn't have his best game but Konsa bossed him around a good few times

[–] bambinoquinn@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Portugal should just call him up. We've seen before a few times that the only way to get Southgate to pick a player is for the player to get his agent to talk about the player playing for another country.

[–] BadBehaviour613@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Last season there were only 2 title contenders. This season there are a lot of dark horses

[–] 1PSW1CH@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There tends to be a lot of dark horses after 9 games

[–] a_f_s-29@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There weren’t last year

[–] 1PSW1CH@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

tends to be

[–] Tierst@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sure there are. You dont really believe anyone other than Abu Dhabi can win it, right? We are all fighting for 2nd, 3rd and 4th, not to win the league.

[–] World_is_yours@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I tried to stay realistic last season, but eventually gave into the hype. Its the hope that gets you.

[–] Timely_Airline_7168@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I think people can finally give Villa proper credit. They have only been outclassed in 2 games; Newcastle and Liverpool while comfortably dispatching Brighton and West Ham.

[–] NewAccountSamePerson@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Both teams have so much quality, it’s great to see. West ham had a massive chance to level at 2-2 but Paqueta was a bit to slow to get on Antonio’s cross. Villa are so dangerous going forward, they need to find the courage to play this way against the top sides.

[–] daveorourke77@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I think this Emery guy knows his stuff.