Kayoute gets away with no yellow card for no less than 6 fouls while Cesc gets it immediately on his first. Show some consistency man.
I feel like we're at this point where the system would allow us to give guys like him 20 mins and it really wouldn't take away from anything. Won't happen tho.
by the way, in the last 10 mins pedro went off for matic to create a midfield 3 and then hazard came off for willian. the last change was zouma on for moses, he slots in the back three with Dave going to RWB.
an interesting sequence ends with a roll back to cesc who curves a shot over the bar when a player with his quality should have worked the keeper. frustrating. team is knocking it around pretty well. it's kind of hilarious how deliberate zouma always looks.
In a season which didn't start out great for him, Cahill has been quietly excellent. I don't think I would be comfortable with him and Luiz as a back 2 but as part of a back 3 unit, effective. Overall, especially in the past few matches, we show that we still have a lot of room for improvement but the foundation is there. The spine is there. If we don't stand pat in the summer we should maintain a threat in the league for some time to come (and I mean spend the Oscar money and the same amount again, make the rest of the league nervous).
really annoying to let them get one at the death. clean sheet gone. however, away derby with 3 points.
As the Dam Funk song goes, We Continue. I have class tonight so I'll catch highlights when I get home. But we just keep going.
Far more comfortable than the scoreline suggests but that is one of those areas of improvements we could work on. Staying focused at the end of halves. Too many sloppy late goals recently.
Controlled the game for 92 and a half of the 93 minutes and still nearly blew it! I like the way the team seems to know when to give up possession and when to counter, West Ham were fired up at the start and looked a bit bewildered by the end! Well deserved 3 points there.
Yeah, but making the right choice is going to be key when we do buy. No point in just blowing money just because it's available. Cesc is 30 in a few months so we need to be looking at someone to replace him in the not too distant future.
Im glad I was wrong about our cocaine pixie. We were dangerous on the break today. We just need to somehow unlock the Easter egg where our squad can really be ruthless and bag 4, 5 goals in a game like this. By the way, what a joke that stadium is for West Ham. No character, no connection to the fans. A blight on the league. Below is the gap between the fans and the pitch.
I think a true box to box mid would make a huge difference in unlocking this team. Even with Fab in there its all a bit static.
There was the fan that jumped the gate and wall and started screaming at a few of our players. I'm starting to genuinely hate all things West Ham.
I'm really pretty positive on Fab. He completely changes our side. With that said, we seem to have spells where the other side dominates possession in our half for extended periods when we play him for all the obvious reasons. It completely changes when we bring Matic on though. I'd love to see us get a B2B and then play 352.