[ad_pod ]Aston Villa will feel frustrated by picking up just a point at home to a ten-man West Ham side.The visitors’ left-back Arthur Masuaku received his marching orders 23 minutes from time after picking up a second yellow card for what appeared to be a challenge on Ahmed Elmohamady.Dean Smith’s men failed to capitalise as the game petered out into a goalless stalemate.Their captain Jack Grealish has since come out and claimed that the result “feels like a defeat,†but what do the experts think?
Lee Hendrie (BBC Radio 5 Live)
Former Villa midfielder Lee Hendrie, who made over 250 appearances in B6 over 14 years, didn’t mince his words and kept it short and sweet.
He doesn’t appear to be wrong either as the club are the joint-second lowest goalscorers of this current Premier League campaign, having scored just four goals from five matches.
Ashley Preece (Birmingham Live)
Local reporter Ashley Preece added more fuel to the fire by continuing to blast what appears to be an apparent trend.
He blamed Villa’s frontline of Wesley, Jota and Anwar El Ghazi for their inability to score or even create changes of note.
The home side recorded ten shots at goal, but just half were on target, per WhoScored.
Oliver Kay (The Athletic)
And finally, this tweet from Oliver Kay, the senior football writer at the Athletic, pretty much summed everything up.
He believed the decision-making of the Villa squad was crucial to their demise on Monday night, labelling it ‘bizarre.’
Things will need to drastically improve in the near future otherwise, a relegation battle could be on the horizon.
