West Ham Match Thread - Fa Cup
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Hahaha. It's a common basketball phrase for two defenders on an attacker. I'm sure I've seen it used often enough in football as well!
It is dude. I knew I you meant, I was just being a tit trying to be funny. As per.
Impressed with Brannagan (cracking shot and some lovely work in midfield & passing) , Stewart and Teixeira. Allen has played some nice balls too.
Benteke has been shite again, how come he seems to lose the ball .. or fail to win it even though he is supposed be to shit-hot in the air .... every time he's involved. We'd be better off telling him to sit on the penalty spot and not move from there. Seems to be a different player from the one we originally signed.
Benteke has been shite again, how come he seems to lose the ball .. or fail to win it even though he is supposed be to shit-hot in the air .... every time he's involved. We'd be better off telling him to sit on the penalty spot and not move from there. Seems to be a different player from the one we originally signed.
Used in NFL too. The mind boggles at the thought of mini-Tex being involved in either.
I thought Stewart and Branagan were excellent. Benteke just looks out of place completely, he struggles with bread and butter centre forward play like holding the ball up. Caulker has also done very well. I've been susprised with how well we've competed with them.
West Ham have been hopeless, maybe they thought it would be easy but so far they have done sod all. Song has been atrocious.
West Ham have been hopeless, maybe they thought it would be easy but so far they have done sod all. Song has been atrocious.
It's killing me.
We're getting men wide, we getting into great deep crossing positions too & every time he's loitering around the edge of the box flat footed not making runs into the box.
This is the best we've played West Ham this season. Considering that five guys in the team out there have played fewer than 5 full games at this level this season, I'm satisfied with what we've shown. Some hairy moments when we lost control of the midfield halfway through, but overall we've done okay.
It's even worse than that at times - he seems to get to the edge of (or just inside) the area and then go into reverse for some unfathomable reason.
So we've injured 2 players? Flanno is clearly acting as a role model to our young players.
So, what happens in the second half? Payet swapping flanks after Kouyate was withdrawn and Bilic switched to 4-4-2 is taxing Smith, and Allen doesn't have the speed to keep up to help. He has the fight and tenacity, but that raw pace is missing to match, and it's a matter of time before one or both of them get booked.
Maybe Ibe needs to switch flanks with Teixera to help us cope with Payet. Maybe Stewart goes off for Ojo, so we then have pace on both flanks, with Teixera, Brannagan and Allen holding the middle. Trade muscle for technical ability and tenacity. These three should be able to keep pressing their guys in the middle.
We still need Benteke to come alive and score the double I said he would!
Maybe Ibe needs to switch flanks with Teixera to help us cope with Payet. Maybe Stewart goes off for Ojo, so we then have pace on both flanks, with Teixera, Brannagan and Allen holding the middle. Trade muscle for technical ability and tenacity. These three should be able to keep pressing their guys in the middle.
We still need Benteke to come alive and score the double I said he would!
Made it from scratch man. I cook these days.
What does that have to do with lasagna?
Well that was a mess. Shocked we didn't concede.
Yep. Defending on par with the first team there.
Fuck me benteke him as been poor.
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