Match Thread | West Ham vs. Manchester City (14/03/26)

[wolviedinho]

How the fuck can we continue to play so poorly? It’s astonishing and shows we need major changes. If we could fix it, it would be fixed. It’s not and looks awful.

The whole club is in a malaise.

Wakey wakey.

So many poor performances and I include pep 1 and 2.

 

[Blue-Ghana]

The Madrid result has destroyed the confidence of the team.

 

[Lavinda Past]

Really worried about Haaland

Pep obviously isn't

 

[skillman]

Wish we had the bottle to invite teams onto us and hit them on the counter. It’d play into the hands of the majority of the players we have - most of who are lethal with space in front of them.

Nunes
RAN
Marmoush
Semenyo
Haaland
NOR

All players built to attack the space, yet who try and suffocate teams with boring football which only serves to build their confidence up that we can’t break them down. Same old, same old.

 

[mattyads]

Haaland Marmoush and Semenyo aren't very good footballers, good goal scorers but poor footballers.

Nail on head. Those 3 can’t play together. It’s pin ball.

 

[bluetonium]

Absolutely wank defending and goalkeeping. If I were in net I would have expected a bollocking for that in Sunday league. Hard fought wins being dismantled by ourselves.

Need more urgency up front. Seems to prefer the safe pass when we're chasing a game, puzzling.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

This is no longer acceptable.

Our tactics & game plan is mental.

Playing with handbrake on every week.

How the Fook is cherki not playing. Playing with 10 men with erl playing this system.

This is a completely different Pep to the one that joined. Time for a change. I don’t even expect that we’ll drastically improve and compete for the big trophies with a new manager, but I’m not bothered. I just want to see a different set up. Different football. The way we play has been shit for 2 years now. Can’t be arsed with a third year of this.

 

[Saddleworth2]

No creativity in midfield. What has Cherki done to deserve being benched. Apart from the one bit of quality that half was horrible.

 

[Gabriel]

Trying to thread a needle with rope. We’ve too much brawn, not enough brain, and it also looks as if we’re conserving energy with an eye to midweek.

 

[axlgod]

Yay, we’re winning in possession.

 

[bert38]

Surely you mean Cherki for Haaland. Admittedly it's easy to forget Haaland is playing

Omar’s been booked

 

[phargrave]

One touch in our box and 1 goal. Not good enough today.

Story of our season

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

miserable half. i hate almost all of the players we have on this fucking team

 

[Matt Diablo]

Zero creativity. Nothing.

Hard to disagree. Body language isn't great. Look half arsed

 

[youngbob]

I think you’ve been duped into what playing well is. Creating zero is not playing well, no matter how many passes we make.

West Ham have created nothing from open play. Semenyo's chance goes in and that's a good away half from us. Play like that in the second half with a bit more quality and we'll win.

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

Marnoush and Semenyo off for Doku and Cherki and we win this.

 

[Mattyc55]

Haaland Marmoush and Semenyo aren't very good footballers, good goal scorers but poor footballers.

has to be up there with the worst technical front 3 weve had in a long long time.

This just isnt a pep team

 

[Stoned Rose]

Game is absolutely crying out for width.

It’s also crying out for Haaland to pull his head out of his arse.

 

[jaiguruKun]

Can anyone explain what the manager has against Cherki? Or is he carrying a knock?

 

[rodrizontal]

Marmoush is an average footballer, no one can convince me otherwise. He will 100% have games when he will score multiple goals, but average players do that too.