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

[Ajm1985]

Not a bad opening that, from a botched counter

 

[lee one pen]

Three... Three attempts to touch the ball from Semenyo there and he fucked all three

He cost £62m and is probably on £200 grand a week :(

 

[I'm Blue]

Forget the possession stats we need to work at least 50% harder.
Especially in the final third.
Work harder to find space, work harder with and without the ball.

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

Its got nowt to do with the actual players - they are all decent players

Its down to the system and the recruitment for it - its not remotely the same as when Txiki was here, who actually recruited and targeted players for Pep's system (which he knew inside out)

Now we have Pep's system, and a man in charge of recruitment who hasnt got tbe foggiest what is needed for it to be seamless

 

[ScottSinclair]

Too many limited footballers going forward

 

[MCFC1993]

Doku and Cherki for Haaland and Semenyo.

They both might score goals but do some daft shit on the ball.

 

[blue moony]

Loved they all charged in for the Marmoush shot.

Haaland doesn’t make those runs

 

[Blue and still suffering]

Marmoush learning from Rejinders for shots on target

 

[mattyads]

Semenyo…deary me

 

[ALDN_Ko]

Exhibit 20567 as to why Semenyo shouldn’t be playing as a 10

 

[Deepest Blue]

Usually have pictures of the match available but tonight Ive got the Oxbridge tossers of Talkshite informing me

 

[bluemullet]

Play Haaland in there. Great move. His run is excellent. We go sideways!!! Absolute joke. He’s not doing enough but he’s also not being played in when we have the chance.

 

[Tomblue]

Semenyo is technically pretty poor isn’t he. Just what you need when your game plan is to pass a team to death.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Game going to plan, take it easy, give the opposition confidence then chase around trying to keep in the game.

 

[theholysmurf]

Give it 10 mins more max before bringing Cherki on

 

[waspish]

Haha we try to press even close down with two or out players but players now don’t panic they keep the ball then pass it 2/3 years ago players would panic

 

[East Level 2]

just been done by the corner really, total over reaction in here !

WTF? We've had one shot on target against the team currently 17th. calling this performance shite is not an over-reaction.

 

[Mr HJ]

Semenyo ignores a haaland run again.

This - can you imagine if Kev was making that run or even Cherki in that position - an illustration of how far we have fallen. You have the best striker in the world yet don't have the quality of players to give it to his strength. No wonder he looks fed up.

 

[AirbagsOptionalTheReturn]

Ait-Nouri and Nunes are our full backs and should not be rested again.

 

[The Mighty Marmoush]

Me neither. He was brilliant for us.

He popped up like a toast from a toaster