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

[vuoso1993]

Haaland out.
Cherki in

Just said same to my mate . Hook haaland bring on cherki and play Marmoush and semenyo up top

 

[stan bowles]

When your left back is your best creative player you're in trouble.

Needs a bollocking though for trying do it all. Why can't he pass it ? Twice at Anfield, that fuck up in the box vs Newcastle where he literally fell over with Haaland in space and twice tonight.

 

[BlueMonkey79]

Another waste of 45 minutes. State of this squad.

Littered with footballers getting paid top dollar to churn out shit like this. The season is done for me. People keep saying win the game in hand and beat Arsenal and its back on. On what planet playing football this way are we gonna reign Arsenal in.

They will also do us in the final and that will be that.

 

[deano ou812]

Switched it round to the rugby ..

 

[Blu1]

Who replaces pep though?

A season of transition again next season as wlel

Easy vinnie will come. Pep is just lost now. He’s won it all so understandable but time is now

 

[Paulmcfc2703]

Omar’s been booked

We are already down to 10 men anyway with Haaland

 

[Allnightlong]

Cherki has to come on at half time

On 85 min……..go and win it for us!!

 

[Mr HJ]

You cannot tell me that Pep is right putting Semenyo in the hole that Cherki would thrive in and expecting it to be creative - it is not his strength to hold the ball, turn and play a forward pass in tight spaces. It nullifies all three front players - seen as non have worked the keeper once - Pep is now the tinker man and the players have no idea what the plan is on the evidence of that 45. West Ham have been deep, ripe for fast through balls yet Pep will no doubt bring on Tijjani or Kovacic ahead of the best playmaker in the squad - what are we doing here?

 

[madloaf]

Really worried about Haaland

Why? He's completely ignored. The one time he had space in behind semenyo smacked it back to khus. The only thing I'm worried about is him leaving once pep says he's staying.

 

[Mancityus]

Thought this would be the game to close the GD, so far looks we will struggle to just get the full points.

 

[PragueBlue]

Not the best half.

Would like to see Bernardo, O'Reilly and Marmoush off at half time. None offer much really at present. Cherki, Doku and Gonzalez on.

Wesy Ham are really nothing at all and we should beat them fairly comfortably with the above changes.

 

[simon23]

If we bring Cherki on we also have to bring on Nico G in my mind.....

Cherki for Semenyo
Nico G for NOR (Bernardo has been our best player)

 

[TFC]

Why would you not start Cherki when it's very obvious we are going to need to pick a lock this afternoon? Hope he gets on sooner rather than later ffs

 

[Sam69]

How many times do we have to say that without Doku and Cherki we have zero creativity? It took a misplaced cross from Bernardo for us to create our first chance in the 30th minute and open the scoring.

What a torture that first half was!

 

[TB369]

We have to be one of the most boring teams to watch nowadays. Just pointless passing around as our CF is as stationary as a fence post.

 

[bitterblue78]

We are arsene wengers arsenal

 

[rice10]

I’d love Guardiola to give his honest opinion on our squad and players. A manager so engrained in the Cruyff total football, technical football players everywhere, is managing a team with a forward line of Haaland, Marmoush, and Semenyo not one of them able to play a possession based game. Then you’ve got Donnarumma who cannot pass a ball to save his life.

It just doesn’t make any sense to me. Surely you’d buy players to a suit a managers style or hire a manager to suit the players you have. We have players for a certain style of play and a manager desperately wanting play in a different manner.

 

[warringtonblue]

We played with wingers v Newcastle and attacking fullback and it was exciting. We got the ball forward quickly.

How has he gone back to this turgid shite that makes everyone looks worse than they are?

Newcastle had a go at us

 

[bluemoon32]

Thank fuck we haven't spent huge sums of money to play like this...

 

[Blu1]

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.

100% agree. We play with fear loyalty & confusion right now