West Ham (A) - EFL Cup R4 - Post-Match Thread

At times I thought we played quite well but like everyone says we were pretty crap close to goal but there were a couple of times we were unlucky. Funily enough Palmer missed 2 great chances over the bar well set up for him.
For some reason didn't feel at all confident in the pens. Assume Gundog would have taken the last one.
 
Should have put it to bed, but usual bad finishing was costly, well done to west ham. It was going to end sometime, and will be strange having a couple of midweeks with no football!
 
Like I said at HT, there's only so much a team can do with a bunch of players that haven't had much game time together as a collective against an extremely well organised defence.

We looked a lot brighter after Foden and Jesus both came on. Palmer had a lot of exciting moments.


I know it's going to happen but this isn't the game to be reading doom and gloom into about the squad.
 
Can have zero excuses there. Out with a whimper. Piss poor showing, no desire in that game at all. To throw away a 5 year reign like that is infuriating. Every single one of our forward players were total dogshit all night, kdb, gundogan, sterling mahrez and Palmer were all as bad as each other, casually jogging around waiting for somebody else to do something, never bothering to show for a forward pass and instead just looking to pick up the ball in the same areas as one another and have nothing infront of them each time they pick up the ball, it was easy for a second string west ham.

Its not the lack of a striker that's cost us because not once did we get the ball into a position where you could say a Kane or whoever scores there, its everybody on the pitch wanting to do the same thing coming towards the ball with no willingness to run off it

Don't know why anybody is focusing on the penalties, that's not knocked us out, it should never get to that stage. That's a lottery, it was in our hands to win it before it gets to that.

I'm not for one second having this bigger fish to fry and less games bollocks after the last 4 years of winning it. It's 4 more games for another trophy, 4 games that players who are complaining about not playing would get more game time had they not been shit tonight.
I thought we did everything but score. Casual jogging? Completely disagree about that. Effort was there, just snatched chances, and WHU defended well
 
No striker, no progress. There were at least three chances begging for an Edin Dzeko type to be on the end of them.


Very poor team performance. The dullest game I've seen for some time. Some exceptionally poor individual performances tonight.


Feel for Phil. Doesn't deserve to carry the can for his miss. These things happen. The game should have been won in 90 minutes.


I presume the League Cup is now tinpot again.
 

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