Aston Villa 0-0 West Ham Utd (16/09/19)

[k-r-c]

These are the kind of games you ant to be winning if you're going to push for a top 8 place. The win taking us 3rd would be amazing considering our opening day hammering. It is very West Ham though to end up losing 2-0 tonight.

Lets hope we are fast out the blocks and get an early goal.

[hammerman11]

CAN SEE YARMOLENKO BEING KNACKERED AROUND THE 60 MINS MARK. FORNALS ON
team picks itself same as Norwich, you don't change a winning team.

fab
fredericks diop ogbonna masuaka
noble rice lanzini
yarmolenko haller Anderson

subs Roberto Johnson Balbuena wilshere fornals Snodgrass ajeti maybe zaba in for Johnson ?

start well, stay fully committed and we should be ok.

3-0 hammers haller x2 Anderson

IRONS

[asters89]

Got a bad feeling we won't show up for this, but we live in hope

[steveyrockstar]

We all know the term "Spursy". Tonight, we're going to cement the term "West Hammy"

"West Hammy" - being consistently beaten, and in many cases trounced, by a supposedly inferior team, whenever presented with the opportunity to achieve a position of higher stature.

[scatts]

VAR, or lack of VAR, will deny us 3rd place.

[fjthegrey]

I think we should try to win.

[steveyrockstar]

"West Hammy" adj. - consistenly blowing the opportunity to better oneself; to be left swimming in perpetual mediocrity.

[Cockneyboy311]

We all know the term "Spursy". Tonight, we're going to cement the term "West Hammy"

"West Hammy" - being consistently beaten, and in many cases trounced, by a supposedly inferior team, whenever presented with the opportunity to achieve a position of higher stature.

God this is so true isn't it

The best teams turn up nearly every single game. We need to try and find that consistency.

[ageing hammer]

VAR, or lack of VAR, will deny us 3rd place.

His name is Dean

[StevePottsGoalsReel]

I think we should try to win.

Let's not get carried away.

[Sauce!]

Is it just me, or do we usually not do so well against the newly promoted teams?

Saying that, we beat Norwich rather more comfortably than the 2-0 scoreline suggests, so it’s an away win for me Simon.

COYRRGSCSMFI

Enjoy the game!

[Coops]

The pessimism returns as the game draws nearer. That's much better.

[OnePaulHilton]

Heart says 3-1 win
Head says 1-1 draw
Liver says 3-2 defeat

[Swiss Pauli]

Villa 2-1 WHU. Unlucky defeat on the cards.

[wildkard]

I have absolutely no idea which way this will go. I think F365 nailed it the other week:

"They’re a unique club in the Premier League. They, more than any other, are a side who could perform in any way at all and still surprise nobody. They can be really good, really bad or really average during any month of any given season and, regardless of context, that would be entirely expected. That’s the personality created by the Gold-Sullivan era: that West Ham are the product of mild chaos, the footballing equivalent of throwing paint at the wall every twelve months and hoping that a Jackson Pollock appears."

[YorksHammer]

Still think we're looking a score draw in the eye here.

[southendmadhammer]

I have absolutely no idea which way this will go. I think F365 nailed it the other week:

"They’re a unique club in the Premier League. They, more than any other, are a side who could perform in any way at all and still surprise nobody. They can be really good, really bad or really average during any month of any given season and, regardless of context, that would be entirely expected. That’s the personality created by the Gold-Sullivan era: that West Ham are the product of mild chaos, the footballing equivalent of throwing paint at the wall every twelve months and hoping that a Jackson Pollock appears."

That is absolutely spot on. Couldn't describe us any better.

[Marky]

I think we will lose 2-1 but this feels a key game for the club. I imagine he will pick an unchanged team (I would personally drop Yarmolenko to the bench for . I still don’t know where we are as a team...after Brighton I thought bottom 6 then Norwich top 6!

We need to make this a war and take the game from minute 1 to them. The atmosphere will be rocking

[southbrishammer]

March 1989: I was in my second year of study at Aston University, my parents were visiting for a few days and West Ham came to town so my Dad and I went along. The self-styled Guvnor scored the only goal, and it is my favourite ever goal that I have seen in the flesh, mainly because we were positioned perfectly behind the goal to see the swerve of the ball as it nestled into the top corner.



Haller to do the same tonight - 1-0.

[Beavis Danzig]

we started extremely conservatively against norwich, let them have a fair bit of the ball and concentrated on keeping the hatches battened. out of character in its pragmatism from pellers but an effective way of managing our slow starts.

wonder if we'll do similar tonight?