West Ham vs Aston Villa Official Match Thread

[tassiehammer]

Only watched the highlights. Looked like we played well . Shame about the equaliser, he only had 3 defenders to beat to the ball .

[Whiskyman]

To be fair it did look handball

I thought the Antonio one clearly came off his arm but the second ? How anybody could have made any decision based on the pictures we were shown on television completely beats me. Totally inconclusive imo.

And surely the handball rule needs looking at. My understanding is that if a defender "handled" the ball as Antonio did (imo) and Soucek is alleged to have done in the area it would NOT be a penalty because it was accidental. However an attacker is penalised for the same "offence". How does that make sense ?

[OZHAMMER]

To be fair it did look handball

Agreed

[normannomates]

Only watched the highlights. Looked like we played well . Shame about the equaliser, he only had 3 defenders to beat to the ball .

Their goal was Tielemens with the whole midfield to himself ( familiar story) after our half arsed two man press.
Soucek marking space again..failing to either engage or track.
Paqueta was all over the shop as well for their goal.

I predicted a 1-1 ..and it's a decent result tbf
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but yet another example of why I hate Moyes and his mindset was the second - half CHICKENSHIT SURRENDER TO THE OPPOSITION..


His VASTLY differing second half ATTITUDE towards the Burnley and Villa games tells you everything you need to know about David fucking Moyes.