Match Thread | West Ham vs Man City (24/10/20)

[jollylescott]

Get Phil and Torres on!

 

[BoyataIsGod]

Absolute dross.

 

[Sleeping_Easy]

Rodri is so ineffective today

 

[kaz7]

We need wingers and bernie in daves spot , he wont hook gundy or ffs though

 

[Kokonut1307]

Far, far too many bad buys.

Hundreds of millions spent and we rely on one player in KDB.

Then we refuse to buy real talents like Haaland because we are upset with his agent. Koulibaly because we are upset with their owner and etc.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Novak is our biggest attacking threat.

 

[SidJames]

I dont even think Wet Spam have been that good.

Just another shit team selection based on Pep favorites to blame.

Becoming a familiar story.

 

[wolviedinho]

The movement in front of the defence is awful

 

[FromPollockToSilva]

Cancelo did not look up once when that build up was happening. Bowen jogged into space at the back post and Cancelo didn’t so much as glance over his shoulder. He’s a good footballer but he has almost zero defensive instinct

 

[Otamendi's Beard]

Who could've predicted we'd be slow, predictable and shite again with the same 11... Oh, that's right. Everyone.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Seventy five mins, two nil down we'll send on the cavalry. That's the Pep way

 

[borassic]

Not even sure Rodri knows what he’s supposed to be doing! Just walks about and passes sideways when he gets it

 

[dave_blue12]

Toothless and clueless.

WH more likely to score again than we are to equalise

 

[MillsyTheMosher]

Peps done for me. Time to pack his bags

 

[cranky24]

Too many passive players in this starting 11, no drive from midfield.

 

[ws01]

We aren't scoring like this, Pep

Change it up for fuck off back to Catalonia

 

[typicalcity...]

Rodri has been shocking, walking round the centre circle reminds me of this

 

[Tb1981]

Pep blames the fixture congestion, no pre season, injuries Etc
How about he stops playing shit players who do fuck all and players who don’t wanna be here and maybe put players who can do something
Be lucky to get anything out of this game

 

[TheThirdDeano]

Who was a worse buy, Bony or Mahrez?

 

[Lancet Fluke]

The signings of Mahrez and Rodri, neither are players that suit Pep’s style of play.

Plus losing Silva, Sané, and Fernandinho from his prime in midfield.

So the next questions are, why did he buy players who didn't suit the style and even if you excuse mistakes in the market, now we know they don't suit the style why does he not pick a team that would have a bit more tempo to it? Mahrez and Gundogan out and Torres and Foden in and at least you've got some legs on the pitch. This seems bloody minded to pick all the players who can't or don't run in the same team. Anyway, it's fucking tedious to watch. At best we might scrape the odd scruffy win with this team but it's just inviting defeat when Liverpool's problems mean we should be right in the title race.