Gianfranco Zola reflects on a well-deserved point at Villa Park...
On the game...This team has got a great spirit and never gives up. Also they play some very good football and I'm delighted because of the point, because it's been a wonderful game and because I believe that everybody in the stadium enjoyed it. So I'm very very pleased.
I try to [sit back and enjoy the game] but sometimes your responsibilities takes over so you have to be on the spot all the time, but today I really enjoyed it and I believe many others did.
On Tristan's 85th minute equaliser...
It was a very good goal that came out of the blue. We had so many chances before but the ball didn't want to go in. We were starting to think it was going to end up like that so that goal was really something special for us and I think it was totally deserved.
On Martin O'Neill...
I believe that he had a lot of expectations for this game but the way West Ham played I think we can say that it was a very well deserved point.
On contract renewal...
We're working on that. I think the club is looking after us very much and we're very pleased with that. Hopefully in the next few weeks something will happen.
Martin O'Neill (Aston Villa)
I thought it was a fantastic game. It was end to end, there were chances galore during the game - but frustrating for us obviously to concede such a late equaliser and even more disconcerting when we had a blatant penalty turned down at the end. Quite a number of people in the ground saw it, but unfortunately the people who count didn't.
West Ham, to their credit, never never gave up. They were always in the game and as we tried to sweep forward to get the second goal there was always the possibility of being hit on the counter - and I thought that's what happened for most of the game.
It's a big setback, there's no question about that and we'll just have to take it and try and roll back next week.
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