West Ham (A) 1/10: Build-Up & Match Thread

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

RAN summing up our approach to scoring there

 

[Del Woppio]

Every single one of them is cowardly and toothless tbh

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Has Ait-Nouri just signed for West Ham? Couple of important clearances by him then.

 

[darlowolf64]

I’ve never seen such a talented group of players look so impotent… they’ve had all attacking intent sucked out of them by the fraud of a “manager”

 

[Wilf Wolf]

RAN summing up our approach to scoring there

If ever something pointed to over coaching it was that. “Rayan, pull it back…”

 

[jd1981]

Whenever we shoot its outside the box, the more you look at that from RAN it beggars belief he didn’t hit it.

 

[Tony Towner]

Every single one of them is cowardly and toothless tbh

I've been at Molineux and I'm sure you have when the atmosphere has been counter productive, be it understandable and fair and players have visibly shrank. This lot have seen nothing like that and yet are so timid. If you don't blame the prick in charge for that then I don't know who you do.

 

[Del Woppio]

Literally the whole season rests on Costa having drank a potion that takes his body, hunger and ability back to where it was six years ago

 

[The Bear]

The lack of attacking cohesion is startling.

Several times we've had 6 or 7 men up into the final third but we don't have any sort of shape, running off the ball or passing interchanges to make anything happen. Half of them just hang back outside the box waiting for someone else to conjur something up.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Not the first time this season RAN had done that where any contact on target is likely a goal.

 

[blacksheep]

This match is so boring.....Wolves are shite, West Ham not much better, acres of space and one nil up....prediction 3 nil as we won't score even at the over 50's disco!

 

[big mean bunny]

It's the coaching, it's the coaching, it's the coaching.

I used to have a saying that possession isn't an attacking stat in football. Today is the case study for that. Being out of possession should be tiring for the team off the ball, but there has been very little work for the West Ham players when we have the ball. It's dreadful again.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Playing like it's a friendly. No tempo. No intention of scoring. Awful

 

[jd1981]

He needs to break his 9 game streak of not managing a second half goal otherwise he’s surely a gonna.

 

[WsWolf]

Literally the whole season rests on Costa having drank a potion that takes his body, hunger and ability back to where it was six years ago

We could have Haaland upfront but we don't actually create any chances for our centre forward to finish so it'd be the same. We've had one half chance which was a shot from distance that fell to Ait Nouri and a couple of shots from outside the box.

 

[Jabbawolf]

I've been at Molineux and I'm sure you have when the atmosphere has been counter productive, be it understandable and fair and players have visibly shrank. This lot have seen nothing like that and yet are so timid. If you don't blame the prick in charge for that then I don't know who you do.

Putin?

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Aside from everything else, how bad has Sky's coverage been??

* their predicted formation (although no one predicted what it actually was
* Smith keeps confusing Nunes and Guedes, they don't look remotely similar
* No mention of the fact Semedo is clearly RW
* and the worst one was when the commentator suggested Costa was telling Raul to warm up instead of himself- who as we all know isn't even on the bench.

Utterly dreadful, no insight, no knowledge and no preparation.

 

[blacksheep]

He needs to break his 9 game streak of not managing a second half goal otherwise he’s surely a gonna.

Sack the numpty....utter tosh....watching WSL better than this shite

 

[Johnny75]

The lack of attacking cohesion is startling.

Several times we've had 6 or 7 men up into the final third but we don't have any sort of shape, running off the ball or passing interchanges to make anything happen. Half of them just hang back outside the box waiting for someone else to conjur something up.

It's the lack of movement. Championship trans would be embarrassed at this.

4-4-2 is just as shit as it was when he first tried it when he arrived.

Fitting that it will be his last formation at the club.

If Shi didn't sack him immediately after the game the toxicity will be firmly aimed at him as well.

 

[The Bion]

We could have Haaland upfront but we don't actually create any chances for our centre forward to finish so it'd be the same. We've had one half chance which was a shot from distance that fell to Ait Nouri and a couple of shots from outside the box.

Not strictly true, Nunes had the best chance after a fairly decent move. He then tried to hit the corner flag.