West Ham A Match Thread. Brace yourself.

[SouthStandUpperTier]

1 minute ago, whoareyaaa said:

does the goalie have to have both feet on the line or not when taking a peno looks well off his line to me

Just one foot I think.

[Freeman's Wharfer]

Hate to say it but quite clearly a game you can look at thus far and quite confidently say a strongest XI would have made light work of. Hope for Brendan the gamble pays off and we find a way.

 

As things stand we’re missing that link man to take the ball on the half turn and play forward through the lines in the centre of the pitch. There’s too much passing backwards to the centre halves by Hamza and Mendy but Maddison or Tielemans on should sort that.

[ealingfox]

Need a new LB, CB, CM, LW and ST in January and I reckon 7 players need shifting out the club whatever it takes

[StanSP]

4 minutes ago, Cadno'r Cymoedd said:

Am stuck in a family do and sneaking to catch updates. Sounds like the 'second' team is doing alright apart from Gray's penalty and the crap goal we conceded? 

Sounds about right!

Pretty much controlled the game til their goal.

[Muzzy_Larsson]

1 minute ago, Cadno'r Cymoedd said:

I think it's also two fingers up to the Premier League for the fixture schedule. Stupid if it is, mind. 

Tbf it was even worse in Scotland, think we played 14 games in December one of the years he was here and he never done that. Well like I said he did at Ibrox but that was allegedly more at protest to the board and the fact their relationship had completely broken down by that point.

[Dr The Singh]

Saw the highlights, looked as though we could have been at least 2 nil up.

 

We have given them hope, it's going to be a tough second half

[sishades]

3 minutes ago, Cadno'r Cymoedd said:

Am stuck in a family do and sneaking to catch updates. Sounds like the 'second' team is doing alright apart from Gray's penalty and the crap goal we conceded? 

You need to get your priorities right. I do which might explain why I live in a box under a bridge !

[justfoxes]

3 minutes ago, Marutimon said:

Shame about the penalty. Iheanacho or Perez should have taken it. Gray is crap.

He’s not crap just don’t think he should of been given the penalty would have preferred Fuchs or Evans !!

[ScouseFox]

3 minutes ago, henrik_62 said:

Late to the party I know but did Rodgers elaborate on his team selection in the pre-match interview?

 

He done similar to this at Ibrox with us this time last year and played Calum McGregor at LB and Mikey Johnstone at centre forward lol!

 

I get the teaching players a lesson part after the last abject performance but this is a bit extreme on the face of it.

it’s got nothing to do with that. he’s said for weeks when asked about why we aren’t resting players in our easier games or even in our cup game that we would make wholesale changes in this game, because it is simply impossible to play these three games in the time we have been allowed. 

[berniethebolt]

Game in the balance...3 strong subs to make... then we see what they are made off. 

Reserves doing alright

Tielemans looking very grumpy on the bench.. be nice to see him proving a point!.. same for Madisson.. vanished vs Liverpool, if hes bigtime then this games for the taking

[foxes_rule1978]

Totally deserve to be ahead... continue what we are doing we should win this one 

[Reginaldo]

Based on the first half, this team lacks quality and is disjointed in play, unsurprisingly. Gotta get first teamers on at 60 mins if not before...

[Carl the Llama]

Can't imagine many worse pairings of pundits than Michael Owen and Tim Sherwood, sweet Jesus.

[berniethebolt]

Game in the balance...3 strong subs to make... then we see what they are made off. 

Reserves doing alright

Tielemans looking very grumpy on the bench.. be nice to see him proving a point!.. same for Madisson.. vanished vs Liverpool, if hes bigtime then this games for the taking

[Dr The Singh]

Just now, sishades said:

You need to get your priorities right. I do which might explain why I live in a box under a bridge !

That box sounds like a luxury at the mo

[murphy]

1 minute ago, ealingfox said:

Need a new LB, CB, CM, LW and ST in January and I reckon 7 players need shifting out the club whatever it takes

You need a new brain.

[Wolfox]

Happy enough with that…. Think we’ve been going ok

 

Mendy and Justin stand out…. Good take from Nacho

 

There goal was good…. Fair play…. They didn’t do much else mind!

 

Feel good for second half…. Nice to know we have some strength in depth…

[Guest Manini]

1 minute ago, henrik_62 said:

Tbf it was even worse in Scotland, think we played 14 games in December one of the years he was here and he never done that. Well like I said he did at Ibrox but that was allegedly more at protest to the board and the fact their relationship had completely broken down by that point.

Could be shades of similar here. Almost a “okay Top, this is the squad I’ve got here. Imagine this on Wednesday nights in Madrid?” 3 days before the window opens. 
 

But yeah also as Scouse said above he’s been hinting at rotation for a while. 

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Just now, TheF1Bob said:

WTF didn't Perez take the peno? If you're a striker, take the frigging thing and show some responsibility.

 

Apart from that, good stuff. 

I'm almost certain the penalty taker will have been designated before the game in collaboration with Brendan.

[justfoxes]

1 minute ago, Freeman's Wharfer said:

Hate to say it but quite clearly a game you can look at thus far and quite confidently say a strongest XI would have made light work of. Hope for Brendan the gamble pays off and we find a way.

 

As things stand we’re missing that link man to take the ball on the half turn and play forward through the lines in the centre of the pitch. There’s too much passing backwards to the centre halves by Hamza and Mendy but Maddison or Tielemans on should sort that.

Talking to a mate about the same thing we were both saying our strongest 11 would be a few up by half time !

[ALC Fox]

3 minutes ago, henrik_62 said:

Late to the party I know but did Rodgers elaborate on his team selection in the pre-match interview?

 

He done similar to this at Ibrox with us this time last year and played Calum McGregor at LB and Mikey Johnstone at centre forward lol!

 

I get the teaching players a lesson part after the last abject performance but this is a bit extreme on the face of it.

Rodgers said before the Man City game that he'd rotate during this period. We've had the second shortest gap in the division between this and the last round of games.

[lennybhoy]

Nacho as a striker should be stepping up to take penalties...simple

[Marutimon]

Just now, justfoxes said:

He’s not crap just don’t think he should of been given the penalty would have preferred Fuchs or Evans !!

I meant he's crap at scoring anything.

 

Honestly, I would even prefer Schmeichel to take it. 

[Aus Fox]

Good half there, Albrighton the stand out for us, Justin looks good and am able deputy for both full backs. Get Madison on second half and we win this.

[don_danbury]

Just now, Carl the Llama said:

Can't imagine many worse pairings of pundits than Michael Owen and Tim Sherwood, sweet Jesus.

sav and sutton?