West Ham UNITED vs City's Stars - Wed 1st Feb KO 19:45 London Stadium Fortress

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  • HammerwombatHammerwombat
    So we have to score every 6 minutes and 15 seconds to draw level.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    They've had 4 shots on target.
  • LukerzLukerz
    Is Bravo in goal for us?
  • HuttonhammerHuttonhammer
    Everton beat them 4-0 I suppose they tried a bit though.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    How many of the team's below us have we still got to play. Trying to work out where our points for survival are going to come from if we play like this again.
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    Sub off Carroll before he injures himself.
  • LukerzLukerz
    Give it a rest thorn

    Stop going OTT so dramatically

    Borderline wumming IMO
  • LukerzLukerz
    By all means be gutted and fuming and negatively comment on the game, but jeez
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Attendance given as 47,000
  • MunichHammerMunichHammer
    Hantshammer said:

    Just when the goal difference was getting better! City are miles better- they must love playing us! ;puzzled

    Just like we loved playing Spurs and Liverpool a while back ;)
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Now changed to just under 57,000
  • PrestonHammerPrestonHammer
    We sub Carroll off and then they start crossing the ball into the box... ;angry
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    Dropped to about 37,000 after the fourth...
  • HamstewHamstew
    Reimburse the fans
  • HammerwombatHammerwombat
    Well that was a bit poor. ;doh
  • HamstewHamstew
    I hate that Noble isn't good enough
  • jay_in_cptjay_in_cpt
    edited February 2017
    We at least don't have to play Man City every week, is that a positive ;hmm
    And perhaps Cheikh back for Southampton game...
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    Actually thought Reid had a good game again. Fonte was decent. Carroll ran around a bit. The rest were woeful.

    Byram got roasted tonight but as he is our only right back he has to play every game from here on in. Crazy situation to find ourselves in
  • NEoldironNEoldiron
    The thing you notice about Citeh is how quickly they move the ball, not so much by running with the ball or trying to dribble, but movement off the ball into space to receive a pass.
    Plus, the whole team moves en masse up and down the pitch so that space is restricted within the lines.
    We didn't help by not pressing the ball, you'd've thought that we would've studied Everton's win against them and taken that on board, or is match preparation restricted only to the training ground. ;hmm
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    I'd have thought they'd have learnt a lesson from the cup tie. Watching again tonight it was so so easy for them as they could just pass through us because we weren't within 5 metres of them for most of the time.
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    and keep making the same errors. No brains.
  • BazshuayiBazshuayi
    I never get too up or down after a game. Fact is, Citeh are scary up front and we cant cope with them. We dont have to play them anymore this season and no other attack from any other team has such an unhealthy affect on our defence ;wahoo Snoddy and Kouyate will come in and all will be fine (til the next time we play them) ;yercoat
  • alderzalderz
    On Reid's position, he has always played on the left of the pair for us when partnered with Collins, Tomkins and Faye, it's only when he's paired with Ogbonna that he moves to the right. IMO, the move back will help him ;ok
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    edited February 2017
    Everyone knows that man for man City are superior to us but that doesn't excuse the fact that we make so many schoolboy errors time and time again and not just against them.
    What gets to me most is that from the beginning of the season we have made error after error in midfield and defence but seem incapable of finding a solution. Given that Bilic was a central defender he doesn't seem to have passed on any kind of tactical knowhow whatsoever.
    Apart from players I think a priority in the summer should be to find a decent coaching team. Since Dicks was taken on our defence has been a shambles for the most part and Dan anybody name the rest of our backroom staff and what they're supposed to be doing.
  • HammerexHammerex
    Perhaps this was the real reason Payet wanted to leave. ;hmm
  • chicagohammerchicagohammer
    Proud of the fans in the second half, heard bubbles ringing out,

    We know and have to accept that man city are man for man better than us, but in the first half especially, it was men against boys.

    Antonio, Carroll and Reid can hold their heads up and Snodgrass looked sharp enough but as for the rest of them..........
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    Adam said:

    Thorn

    Bilic can't make the players not make any mistakes. It's the players' fault that they are making mistakes.

    Don't agree - for one and two thirds seasons we have had different personnel and different systems and yet we still consistently concede poor goals. Bilic is 100% accountable
  • NEoldironNEoldiron
    Thorn said:
    "Apart from players I think a priority in the summer should be to find a decent coaching team. Since Dicks was taken on our defence has been a shambles"

    Rio offered his services a few weeks ago didn't he. I wonder if his offer still stands ;hmm
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    We had these problems last season - count the number of times we conceded 2 plus goals in a game. Cracks were papered over by payet's feats at the other end. Example being Everton away last season where although we won we were all over the shop at the back v 10 men

    We have been properly shellacked, especially at home time after time this season. Only our barely deserved 1-0 wins separate us from where palace and Swansea currently are. If our previous manager had been presiding over this shambles the servers over in Greece would have gone up in smoke by now, such would have been the vitriol..
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    Adam

    Yes I believe he is ultimately accountable for what happens on the pitch. That is his job for which he is paid handsomely.

    Whatever he is doing in training isn't working. One and two thirds seasons now!
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