West Ham United (A) | Sun 7th Aug | Post Match Thread

[Mancity1980]

Obviously Haaland needs to work on his heading, but if that cross from Grealish had been low he would have toe-poked in for his hat trick. Once we make those small adjustments the sky is the limit. What a time to be a blue!

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Even though it was just a cameo, I do like the cut of Alvarez's jib.

There’s definitely something about him. His pressing in particular seems to be on a level above anyone else in our team. Really impressive.

 

[Tangled up in blue.]

Piece of cake

 

[levets]

A bit rusty, a bit sluggish at the beginning, but completely in control once we settled. Haaland, Grealish & DeBruyne almost telepathic. Haaland will score plenty, of that there is no doubt. ‘The Striking Viking’ they called him on commentary.

 

[Heisenberg's Blue Sky]

Hammers 0-2 Thor's Mighty Hammer

 

[simon23]

But all the pundits said Haaland wouldn’t score goals using his pace…

Incredible league debut. Unreal finishes, pace, power, great link up play and some lovely passes.

Thats what I dont get about these pundits.....

Even in the last 4-5 seasons there have been so many times when we have hit teams on the break. We control a lot of the game nearly every game but we still have to defend at times and when we broke up the play we then broke on team. It was not exactly a rarity and it happened today

 

[2infinity&beyond]

What I loved about Haaland's 2nd goal was how he looked so powerful as he ran through, almost like he had zero doubts he would score. The finish was subsequently emphatic. Clinical.

Exactly. Would Sterling have scored that?

 

[Elbow beards]

Oh, I've never felt more like singing the blues....

 

[Silvatoure21]

You’re a joke !
We should have just gave you the 3 points or played our reserves
More gutted Antonio and Fab are injured - really could of done without that

What to say about City ? Just a completely different level, every player world class

Hopefully both those guys aren’t seriously hurt. Didn’t look too awful.

 

[yeah whatever !!]

Blimey bbc now calling for Erling to be fined
Erling Haaland has just dropped some blue language in his interview with Sky, describing missing out on a hat-trick as a bit... well, you can have a guess.

Upon being asked to mind his language, he accidentally said it again in exclamation.

Don't know if City have a fines system like Steven Gerrard has instilled at Villa, but that's gonna be costly to him if so.

simple solution, in future Erling does BBC pressers in Norwegian. :)