West Ham Post Match Thread | Friendly in Iceland

Nice football.
A lot of missed chances.
Foden really looks the dogs dodahs. Needs to be kept at the club this season with plenty of sub appearances.
BUT...
Two free headers for WHU that better teams would have got on target and probably scored from.
For me, we need a leader CH for when Kompany gets injured,

Thought Hart did well for WHU. Not for Pep but WHU will concede less goals this season.
 
karen7 said:
They also said he was holding back some first team players for their game against the rags next week,really strange way of preparing his first team for the season
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Who was the commentator? Hardly ever gave us credit, especially for the second goal which was incisive to say the least, and was bulling up little peanis, who hardly got a chance to impress as he was never near the 6 yard box. Then he came out with the comment you mentioned. Who did Bilic leave out? As far as I was aware, he was merely practising his bus parking tactics for the match at the swamp, which should be a great spectacle for the fans.
 
I'm starting to grow more and more fond of Mangala. Looks solid and calm on the ball.
 
Lots to like, Danilo excellent again. Very young line up at the end, bodes well. One observation, young Foden seemed to pull out or just not bother with some 50-50 balls, maybe because it was a friendly, regular youth team followers may shed light? Over all he was as impressive has the rest.
 
crazyg said:
Who was the commentator? Hardly ever gave us credit, especially for the second goal which was incisive to say the least, and was bulling up little peanis, who hardly got a chance to impress as he was never near the 6 yard box. Then he came out with the comment you mentioned. Who did Bilic leave out? As far as I was aware, he was merely practising his bus parking tactics for the match at the swamp, which should be a great spectacle for the fans.
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Believe it or not that commentator was far more fair than sky and bt ones,i don't know who it was though
The rags game will be loads of bus parking from the hammers but the rags will attack them just not like we do
 
I know Mangala is not flavour of the month with many fans, but I don't see what he did wrong today, and he won't be first choice even if kept.

He's strong, pretty quick, and a good defender, not ideal for a Pep team, but spending another £30m on a defender when we have one that can step in, and may learn, seems silly to me, especially with Tosin also available, don't play them together, but they can both cover the others.
 
Just gonna mention that I called this 3-1-4-2 formation months ago, with a winger on one side and fullback on the other as wingbacks. With Mendy fit no doubt he will still be preferred on the left.
 
This group of players look good. Balanced, skillful and with the right personalities to develop. Obviously it's only pre-season but our performances have been impressive and the competition for places will be healthy. It's different from previous because the players are all at a similar age bracket so have incentive to fight and earn their places whereas previous squads possibly had the wrong foundation. Having players who know they are simply back ups leads to lack of motivation sooner or later.

damrider said:
I'm starting to grow more and more fond of Mangala. Looks solid and calm on the ball.
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I still expect him to be moved on but perhaps he'll be given a lifeline just because he's had a year away from the negativity. Clean slate etc....
 
They will and we will :)
The most skilled positions always leave a fair bit to work on.
I don't really care if the game was boring at times the objectives were met in that everyone who could who matters got a run out and we came away with no injuries and some nice results.
We've found out a bit about some players (good and bad ), made a few new fans and probably a fair few quid also.
Mission accomplished IMO.
 
Thought Zaba was going to injure a few of our players in the first half. Think it was more clumsy than malicious
 
Easy run out, I have no idea what West Ham were trying to work on except eleven men behind the ball. Their only plan seemed to be a long ball to our left side where they did seem to find large gaps. I still feel we need a different option up front when teams are hard to break down, a Dzeko or Giroud type to unsettle a defence and make space.
 
cleavers said:
I know Mangala is not flavour of the month with many fans, but I don't see what he did wrong today, and he won't be first choice even if kept.

He's strong, pretty quick, and a good defender, not ideal for a Pep team, but spending another £30m on a defender when we have one that can step in, and may learn, seems silly to me, especially with Tosin also available, don't play them together, but they can both cover the others.
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I think Mangala looks more comfortable in a 3 to be honest, as for Stones I think he's on another level alongside Vinny, there were times last season he looked lost without someone like that alongside him.
 
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