Match Thread | West Ham vs Man City (16/09/23)

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Stoned Rose said:
Harsh score line.

Haaland has had an absolute mare that half.

Doku has been electric at times but was at fault for their goal. Situational awareness miles off it and didn’t put the yards in tracking back.

Not got much on the bench have we?
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Doku didn’t track back well and it will be addressed. But your attackers are going to give the ball away at midfield occasionally and you need to be able to defend it. We had numbers back and somehow conspired to leave an unmarked man. Doku made the first mistake but imo is not at fault for the goal. There’s no excuse for our not having defended that situation better
 
Should've been three up inside the first 20 minutes, then conceded with some of the worst defensive plays I've seen in a long time, need to score early in the second half.
 
Thought we played pretty well overall, but the goal was a really poor one to concede. Going to be a tough second half though, and no real options on the bench to change things.
 
jollylescott said:
Suddenly it’s only 2 minutes. We’re back to the old rules
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There was nearly another minute added to that two.

There was no time wasting in the half. The ball has been in-play nearly the whole time, and even when there was a injury both players (Dias and Antonio) waved away the physios.

So there was just the goal celebration.

2 minutes with 47 second on top of that was spot on.

No reason to go paranoid for no reason.
 
Both sides have played well in my opinion. Doku been excellent apart from that wank first touch which created their goal.

Less said about Haaland so far this season the better. He’s wasted four absolute sitters in the past game and half alone.
 
Frustrating half. Absolutely battered them. Haaland missed two sitters, they somehow survived a mad goalmouth scramble. Then they just go up the other end and score on the break. Creating loads of openings though so we'll be fine second half when they tire out. Should be winning this by two goals.
 
Not moving the ball quick enough. We let them settle into position and then stroll it around just waiting for a mistake rather than moving the ball quickly and trying to create the opening or force a mistake. Not good enough.

Doku been very good, our best and arguably only threat. Should have 2 assists that half, two tap ins inexplicably missed from haaland.

I'd like to see him switched to the right with foden left second half it's clear as day the only space were going to get today is down the flanks so have our wide players on their strongest foot going on the outside rather than forcing them onto their weaker foot.

If we score early second half we can rescue this, if we don't I suspect they'll win by a few after hitting us on the break.
 
Very impressed by West Ham so far. They will be challenging for top 4 for sure if they can maintain this all season. It is a very unique way of playing. It is basically a refined version of 90s football.

Doku is lethal. Very exciting, skilful, ambidextrous and fast.

Haaland needs to do what he does rather than missing two sitters.

The game is quite mesmerising so far.
 
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