Previously, I thought the match between Aston Villa against West Ham would be a very difficult and tight match. But that doesn't seem to be the case, because the fact is that Aston Villa managed to win big with a score of 4-1 and of course, I personally really didn't expect Aston Villa to win with a very good score like this. So yes, with this good victory and also, about the great improvement that was successfully realized for Aston Villa, then I think this is also the success of Unai Emery. Because after all, before Aston Villa did not even have a good dominance of victory when Aston Villa played against West Ham from record in the head to head. But in this moment, Unai Emery managed to provide very good results for Aston Villa, obviously this is a great improvement.
Aston Villa match yesterday, many people did not expect that the team would score in large numbers and of course many people bet on WestHam to win, but in terms of depth of performance, currently Aston Villa has much greater strength than in the previous season and it looks like this season will be the worst season for WestHam because unstable performance and consistently very weak defense. at first I thought that Aston Villa would win this match but not with big score, but after seeing the appearance of Aston attack line, it was very strong, putting pressure on WestHam defense line in row which made WestHam players mentality weaken because home games were always superior for Aston Villa and It seems like this season WestHam will have to accept fact that this team will always have to perform badly if they dont get strong players in defense and attack.
True, and I am one of those who did not expect that the final score of the match was satisfying, especially for fans in the Aston Villa camp itself, I thought initially the match would end with a score of at least 2 - 1 victory over Aston Villa but it turned out to be more than that. But well in my opinion it is natural why they can get a good score, because anyway as we see and cannot be denied that Unai Emery's squad is now in its best performance, they have improved quite well compared to the previous season, it is proven and we can see in the last five matches they have not lost at all.
As for West Ham, I see that they are now in ninth position in the standings, and in the last five matches they have only been able to pocket one win and one draw, the rest lost. None other than this is also because as you said the performance of this squad is now in bad condition and not promising, honestly in my opinion it is very difficult for West Ham to go up in the trophy race at the end of the season, and even I think with their conditions like this just to be able to qualify for the UCL alone it is very small chance and almost impossible.