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Team reactions after West Ham United beat Aston Villa 2-0 away from home on Saturday afternoon (8 February) in England's Premier League.

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SOUNDBITE: (English) Sam Allardyce, West Ham United manager

"I gave the lads a bit of stick at half time about not getting the lead after so much really good attacking play, stretching the Villa defence on several occasions. I thought we had wasted the opportunity to take the lead on several occasions and we should have done our final bit a lot better than that. So I said to the players 'don't let that bite you in the backside today'. And then, of course, didn't expect to go out and score two in five minutes, which Kevin (Nolan) did, which was, effectively, what we should have done in the first half but we effectively finished Villa off at that stage, with Kevin's quality of finishing coming to the front again and it's back-to-back wins for us which, at this stage of the season, where we were in the league has relieved a lot of pressure off us."