Lost the ball 45 times, 0% crossing accuracy: Villa's three worst players vs West Ham

Aston Villa saw their three-match winning streak ended by West Ham United on Sunday.

Andriy Yarmolenko put the Hammers in front with 20 minutes remaining at the London Stadium before Pablo Fornals doubled their lead. Jacob Ramsey’s 90th-minute effort proved to be too little, too late for Steven Gerrard’s men.

Here at The Transfer Tavern, we delve into the three worst-rated starters for the Villans as per statistical specialists SofaScore, with players required to feature for at least 45 minutes for ranking.

Cash has started every single Premier League game for Villa so far this season but this may go down as one of his poorer displays.

He lost possession 25 times (second among all players on the pitch, behind only West Ham’s Ben Johnson) and misplaced 13 of his 33 passes (39%). None of his crosses found a team-mate, while five of his six long balls went astray.

Furthermore, the 24-year-old was dribbled past twice during the game and lost four of the eight duels that he contested.

Chambers was making his third consecutive start, but could he lose his place to Ezri Konsa off the back of this performance?

He surrendered the ball 11 times and misplaced six of the 10 long passes that he attempted, while not making any crosses. The ex-Arsenal defender won only one of his three ground duels and also committed two fouls during the match.

Luiz played 79 minutes before Gerrard brought him off to replace him with Emiliano Buendia.

In that time, the 23-year-old failed to complete any of his three long balls or two crosses and, like Cash, he was dribbled past on two occasions.

The Brazilian came off second best in two of his four ground duels and turned over the ball nine times overall.

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