#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.
MASSIVE
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.
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.)
He does actually own a restaurant
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?
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.
11 straight home wins. This place is a fucking fortress.
I’ve never seen a Villa team like this. I’m over the moon.
Great match for neutrals. Greater match for Villains
The OG claret and blues won today!
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
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).
Well there aren’t.
Great point well made.
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
Villa are flying
Where does Emery rank among Prem managers? Top 3 surely no?
He’s better than Arteta, better than Pochettino, better than ETH
I’m waiting to judge on Ange, still early days
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.
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.
Had some great moments, Antonio didn’t have his best game but Konsa bossed him around a good few times
Last season there were only 2 title contenders. This season there are a lot of dark horses
There tends to be a lot of dark horses after 9 games
There weren’t last year
tends to be
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.
I tried to stay realistic last season, but eventually gave into the hype. Its the hope that gets you.
How did Villa get so good?! They were at the bottom of the table last season
Ditched Gerrard and brought in a very very good manager
And we thank you for your part in that.
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.
I will forever cherish that playoff win but fucken ell thats a sliding doors moment. We were comical for a few seasons after that.
God bless Fulham. ❤️❤️