Aston Villa v West Ham United: Premier League – live | Premier League

January 26, 2025

“Of course, West Ham, they are not being consistent, but they have now a new coach. Tactically, they are going to improve,” said Unai Emery on Friday. We’re about to find out how much improvement they’ve managed, but Villa have some improving to do: sure, they’re eighth in the table which is fine “(“The most important for us is the Premier League, and to be in the table’s top eight positions,” Emery added), and have lost only one of their last five league games, but away from home they’re not so hot: two wins and five defeats in their last eight in the league, which would put them 16th in a notional last-eight-away-from-home table (in mitigation, those fixtures included visits to Newcastle, Nottingham Forest, Chelsea and Liverpool). Emery said their ambition was to “try to be consistent like we are at the moment at home”, where they would be sixth and unbeaten in a last-eight-games table.

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Graham Potter also thinks West Ham are going to improve. “Our ambition is there – we want to get better. We want to move towards a style of play that our supporters recognise and are fond of,” he said at his press conference on Friday. “It has been nice to have a decent stretch of training. We have managed to do some good work, analyse the last game and prepare for Aston Villa, so I think we have used the time well. In every training session and after every message, I think the intention has been there.”

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This was the ideal test of their improvement since Potter's arrival, and what he has achieved with that decent training, a few weeks ago, the day after he was announced as Julen Lopatei's replacement, in the FA Cup I played it here. , and Villa won 2-1.

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Since then, West Ham have beaten Fulham 3-2 (in a game where they had 4 shots overall and only 3 on target) and lost 2-0 to Crystal Palace (with 4 shots overall and only 3 on target). was not on target at all). For context, last season the average Premier League match featured 27.2 shots in total. Since Christmas, West Ham have taken a total of 11 shots on target in six games and conceded 15 goals at the other end. It's clear where you need to demonstrate that improvement. So let's see how they ride.

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The team sheets have been handed in, and here is the news. Ollie Watkins starts again, with Duran on the bench for Villa, with Leon Bailey and Lucas Digne the new faces from the team that drew with Arsenal. West Ham bring in Alphonse Areola in goal, and Vladimir Coufal and Carlos Soler out of goal.

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Aston Villa: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Mings, Digne, Tielemans, Kamara, Bailey, Rogers, Ramsey, Watkins. Subs: Olsen, Zych, McGinn, Duran, Buendia, Garcia, Malen, Maatsen, Bogarde.
West Ham: Areola, Coufal, Kilman, Cresswell, Wan-Bissaka, Alvarez, Soler, Emerson Palmieri, Lucas Paqueta, Soucek, Kudus. Subs: Fabianski, Foderingham, Luis Guilherme, Ings, Rodriguez, Irving, Casey, Scarles, Orford.
Referee: Peter Bankes.

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It's looking like a pretty miserable day in Birmingham. I hope you get some sunshine soccer or something.

Fans arrive at Villa Park before the match between Aston Villa and West Ham. Photo: Andrew Boyers/Action Images/Reuters

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The team sheet was handed out. And here's the news. Ollie Watkins starts again, Duran is on the bench for Villa, and Digne is the new face of the team that Leon Bailey and Lucas Digne drew with Arsenal. West Ham bring in Alfons Areola in goal, leaving Vladimir Coufal and Carlos Soller out of goal.

Aston Villa: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Mings, Digne, Thielmans, Kamara, Bailey, Rodgers, Ramsey, Watkins. submarine: Olsen, Zych, McGinn, Duran, Buendia, Garcia, Malen, Maatsen, Bogarde.
West Ham: Arreola, Coufal, Kilman, Cresswell, Wan-Bissaka, Alvarez, Sollar, Emerson Palmieri, Lucas Paqueta, Soucek, Kudos. submarine: Fabianski, Foderingham, Luis Guilherme, Ings, Rodriguez, Irving, Casey, Scarles, Orford.
Referee: Peter Banks.

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“Of course, West Ham, they are not consistent, But they now have a new coach. Tactically, they are trying to improve,” said Unai Emery on Friday. We're trying to find out how much improvement they've managed, but Villa has some work to do. Indeed, they are eighth in the table. “The most important thing for us is the Premier League, Emery added, losing only one of the last five league games, but away from home they are not as hot. “We put them in 16th place. , the table from the last 8th house (in relaxation, these fixtures are new) Emery said their ambition was to “try to be as consistent as we are at home”, where they would be able to take advantage of the competition. said he would be sixth and unbeaten in the last eight games of the table.

Graham Potter also thinks West Ham will improve. “Our ambition is there – we want to get better,” he said at a press conference on Friday. I think I used the time well because I was analyzing the game and preparing for Aston Villa. After all the training sessions and all the messages, I think the intention was there.”

Aston Villa v West Ham: Testing Graham Potter's coaching chops Photo: Allstar Picture Library Ltd/Nigel French/APL/Sportsphoto

This was an ideal test of their improvement since Potter's arrival, and what he has achieved with that decent training, a few weeks ago, the day after he was announced as Julen Lopatei's replacement, in the FA Cup I played it here. , and Villa won 2-1.