West Ham United (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[chickaroon]

I agree with the rest, but not this. I thought Rodri played well.

Rodri was our best player.

 

[Gordyola]

Suppose Pep will be enjoying pizza with friends this evening. After talking gibberish in his press conference. We really are a damp squid this season. Flashes of a good team in some games followed by pure averageness in others. Arsenal have been nailed on for the league for months in my book, bit like Liverpool last season. Next season maybe improvement but the days of dominating the league are well and truly over.

You know he doesn’t eat on the day of the game as he is so wound up in it? So, if he is enjoying a pizza then he deserves it The result will hurt him as much as any fan the difference is his decisions are the only ones that get tested unlike everyone else’s ideas and that include the dick head pundits sat there taking a wedge when most of them are either failed mangers or not brave enough to give it a go

 

[Blue Mist]

I wasn't going to come on and post but......
The first twenty minutes were about control but by fuck were they boring. Not one shot on goal.
Maybe it was a tactic to wear them down but our first shot..... was it or did Bernie get lucky ?
And of course their first proper threat led to a goal, same old problem.
There was no excitement and no intensity throughout the match, it was stale and thats on Pep. He has over coached the team, they are frightened.
Why is Cherki on the bench again ? The one flair player but clearly not a Pep player.
I am dreading Wednesday and the League Cup Final

 

[waitandsee]

Pep sacrificed his identity to evolve with the league instead of technical , good in small space players we’ve got runners and ball progresses which has turned into Posession for possession sake.

The overall identity of a Pep team isn’t there. So we look boring and out of ideas. When we used to have solutions across the pitch.

agree, Cherki and Foden have to be in our best side

 

[lunebleu]

We weren’t shite! There was no lack of passion and fight from the players and we totally controlled the game. West Ham crossed the half way line about half dozen times and we had a few decent chances. The problem is not scoring. When we last won the league we scraped a lot wins with half chances and dodgy performances and luck. Things are not going our way at the moment and we haven’t got the world class players now who could change close games. But we are not shite and Pep doesn’t deserve the abuse he’s getting on here. We’re bloody frustrating to watch at times I admit, but if a team that’s second in the league, in a Cup final, still in the FA cup and Champions league ( Just) is shite then what was I watching when we fuck all for 34 years?

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

If Ricky Bobby taught us anything it’s that if you ain’t first you are last

No. If we end up second then that's a good season. We are not entitled to win the league

 

[fitzy blue]

He’s nailed it! Our most in form player is Bernardo and he’s in 30’s and probably leaves in the summer. We’re a mess from the keeper who is 6-5 but doesn’t like crosses to a striker who is undroppable ! Something has to give we’re going nowhere at the minute

Nowhere at the minute?
Another cup final next week.
Could be so much worse.

 

[wolves99]

Pep Guardiola on whether #ManCity players were aware of Arsenal's late-winning goals vs Everton: "I was taking a beer before the game, so I didn't see the players before. So I don't know. They were in the warm-up, and I didn't see them. Of course it's better if they didn't win, but it can happen..."

 

[Blue tiger]

Can you not give West Ham any credit, they are fighting for their lives to stay up.
Imo we were unlucky rather than shite.

I can absolutely give West Ham credit they deserve. They dug in and defended exactly how id expect a team in 18th fighting for their premier league lives to play. However my gripe is with my team who are 2nd, that cost ridiculous amounts of money to put together and showed half the fight West Ham did.

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

We weren’t shite! There was no lack of passion and fight from the players and we totally controlled the game. West Ham crossed the half way line about half dozen times and we had a few decent chances. The problem is not scoring. When we last won the league we scraped a lot wins with half chances and dodgy performances and luck. Things are not going our way at the moment and we haven’t got the world class players now who could change close games. But we are not shite and Pep doesn’t deserve the abuse he’s getting on here. We’re bloody frustrating to watch at times I admit, but if a team that’s second in the league, in a Cup final, still in the FA cup and Champions league ( Just) is shite then what was I watching when we fuck all for 34 years?

Come on man (or woman). What did we create first half other than the Semenyo chance? Our goal was a bit of a one off.

 

[stonie]

don't often comment but that was just pure shit, I did initially think maybe we could with a bit of luck pull it back on Tuesday against Madrid but not a chance after watching that display,

 

[Lee won pen]

So many spoilt brats on here, we can’t win it every year but we gave it a good go.

No we didn’t, not really

 

[Silvatoure21]

No. If we end up second then that's a good season. We are not entitled to win the league

I was joking of course. But second and losing by double digits is a reflection of how bad we have been when it matters most. It’s the countless games we drew or lost from winning positions that have killed us. The league in general isn’t that impressive

 

[Franny 1234]

I know it's disappointing not winning away at West Ham.
But you have to give credit to their keeper and defence they didn't deserve to lose.
Anybody who's been watching us this season or last season knew we wasn't winning the league.
Hopefully the two points dropped helps send Spurs down.

 

[Millo]

Absolute garbage, slow and boring to watch, like a bad Groundhog Day.
The set piece coach has done sweet fa, we've got the tallest player on the pitch and still can't get a cross onto his head. Mind you that is partly Haaland's fault, he's like a lazy carthorse. I'd sell him in the summer. We should have bought Kane.
Pep needs to go as well, his tactics are out of date, football has moved on, and he hasn't. We are so predictable, and don't have players who are good enough to break down a stubborn eleven man defence.

 

[Keith Moon]

I wasn't going to come on and post but......
The first twenty minutes were about control but by fuck were they boring. Not one shot on goal.
Maybe it was a tactic to wear them down but our first shot..... was it or did Bernie get lucky ?
And of course their first proper threat led to a goal, same old problem.
There was no excitement and no intensity throughout the match, it was stale and thats on Pep. He has over coached the team, they are frightened.
Why is Cherki on the bench again ? The one flair player but clearly not a Pep player.
I am dreading Wednesday and the League Cup Final

Maybe Ramadan has something to do with why Cherki and Aït-Nouri aren’t playing the full 90.

 

[Shirley]

Cling to that if you want. We don’t play with any urgency until it’s too late, and, we struggle to break down a team that sits deep

He’s got a very good point though, they are usually given

 

[BTH]

Mad isn’t it gone the likes of Maresca & Arteta to having two absolute failures. Kolo Toure I think had the worst managerial record ever at Wigan. Pep Lijnders fucked off from Salzburg

In six years, Arteta has won one FA Cup and two Charity Shields at the club that considers itself to be England's quintessential club and London's foremost club.

Not exactly pulling up trees!

 

[eyalluvitt]

This goes under the radar, both have done f all to effect our play. Both are a joke

“They way they put the cones out is so so good, believe me”

 

[Heartofoakes64]

Maybe Ramadan has something to do with why Cherki and Aït-Nouri aren’t playing the full 90.

Why would that be?