Another stupid kick off time means it has to be another Villa game.
I think the headline sums this one up pretty well actually.
I don’t mean I don’t have a clue in general (although some might think that), but it’s more that we’re capable of any result possible and we’re already showing major inconsistency.
My points prediction for the games up to christmas have already gone out of the window, after all.
We’re just so hard to predict aren’t we?
Look at the teams we’ve beaten and then the teams we’ve lost to and you’d pretty much say that it’s 100% the opposite of what you’d expect.
Add in the fact that we’ve lost three games at home and won three games away already and well, what chance have you got?
I think I’ve given up with predictions for a while and anything now will be more based on hope.
Squad news and Guilbert and Hause are both training, but won’t be ready.
Keinan Davis is apparently fit, so will almost certainly make the bench, but it’s doubtful he’ll start, although questions have been asked about Smith going with two up front. I just don’t see it.
I’ve just seens a report that Traore is doubtful, but I’m not seeing anything to back that up.
The main news(?) is that Ross Barkley is out and the question is who comes in to replace him?
The clever money says it’ll be Conor Hourihane, but it was interesting that Dean Smith preferred Traore over him when Barkley went off last week.
It makes you wonder how much the manager rates the Irishman, but there’s no other logical starter.
Lansbury was notable for his absence when the Mail did a training ground article and there may have been a simple explanation for that, but I don’t think he’d be in the frame anyway.
Our squad is horrendously thin isn’t it? and the question will inevitably be will we be entering the market for reinforcements in the window? but that’s for another day.
As for the Hammers, Michail Antonio could return tonight having missed three matches due to a hamstring problem.
Andriy Yarmolenko has been in self-isolation because of a positive Covid-19 test and it’s not known if he’ll be ready.
They’re fully fit otherwise.
So no predictions based on logic then and it’s purely heart-based.
Where, even so, I’ve got us to lose this one, 0-1.
Well, I might as well. Everytime I say draw or win, I invariably get it wrong.
UTV!
2nd half then and West Ham don’t look much to me.
If our defence doesn’t gift them more goals, I can see the right result coming.
Maybe.
We look decent going forward but Targett and Mings always look like they will cost us at some point.
I don’t believe this.
We are so, so poor in defence.
And especially in the first couple of minutes.
Utter, utter joke and it’s like watching a poor pub side.
Pathetic again
Defensively we are all over the place
Smith has been talking about how organised we look away from home.
He must be joking.
I’ve said it a few times this season, but it’s come to the fore today.
Our defence is utter crap.
Two half chances, two goals conceded.
Grealish, you cheating twat.
Gone down like he’s been shot.
Half hour too late 🙁
Wtf?
Mings has held the attacker down there and it’s not given?
Football is beginning to piss me right off.
Is it ironic that Benrahma crosses for Bowen to score. Both players we were linked with.
Our record after going behind is terrible doesn’t look like its going to change today either!
Trezeguet FFS
Banjo, Trez and Cow’s arse, come to mind.
Again.
We shouldn’t be losing to these. Two chances and two goals for them because of our switched off defence
Penalty?
Why are we not surprised
And Watkins hits the bar.
I fucking give up.
We’re f**king useless. If you can’t score from gilt edge chances then you deserve to lose. Brighton revisited. My prediction 3-1 West Ham with Benrahma scoring!
2 West ham players get the ball within 20 seconds and both fall over, having got their feet stuck under themselves.
I feel like I’m watching a story.
And it’s a nightmare.
I’ve had enough and I can’t watch any more of this utter crap that passes for football.
No review either, as to my mind it just isn’t worth writing about.
Luiz and Cash have done okay with Grealish in glimpses. Strange though when Trezeguet goes off we lack any cutting edge
Badger – if we can’t beat this pile of sh*t what chance? That’s two games where we couldn’t score if they put the ball on the goal line and invited us to shoot.
I give up.