West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread

[muskie]

Odds slashed from 5/1 to 7/2.

Watch this space.

I think we're fucked.

[Far Cough UKunt]

In my book we're going down but if by a miracle we stay up then that's a bonus.

[Manuel]

One of the biggest problems we have is not only do we have to win our winnable games, we are now going to need to pull off some more results like yesterday. I would fancy Forest to win or draw their winnable games.

[nychammer]

I think both us and Forest have at best another 20 points or there abouts and they have a 5 point start on us. . Hard to know how it'll pan out as we didn't expect to win yesterday, but there isnt a lot of wiggle room and we'll have to start pulling rabbits out of hats to have any hope.  Assuming its us or them and noother team collapses of course

My predictions

Hammers Fixtures - will have us on 37 total
24/01/2026 West Ham    Sunderland    3
31/01/2026 Chelsea    West Ham    0
07/02/2026 Burnley    West Ham    1
10/02/2026 West Ham    Man Utd        1
21/02/2026 West Ham    Bournemouth    3
28/02/2026 Liverpool    West Ham    0
04/03/2026 Fulham    West Ham    1
14/03/2026 West Ham    Man City    0
21/03/2026 Aston Villa    West Ham    0
11/04/2026 West Ham    Wolves        3
18/04/2026 C Palace     West Ham    1
25/04/2026 West Ham    Everton        3
02/05/2026 Brentford    West Ham    1
09/05/2026 West Ham    Arsenal        0
17/05/2026 Newcastle    West Ham    0
24/05/2026 West Ham    Leeds        3

Forest  - would have them on 42
25/1/2026 Brentford FC -   Forest     1
1/2/2026   Forest - Crystal Palace       3
6/2/2026  Leeds United -  Forest       0
11/2/2026  Forest - Wolves         3
21/2/2026  Forest - Liverpool           0
28/2/2026 Brighton -  Forest          0
4/3/2026  Manchester City -  Forest      0
14/3/2026  Forest - Fulham          3
21/3/2026 Tottenham Hotspur -  Forest    0
11/4/2026  Forest - Aston Villa       1
18/4/2026  Forest - Burnley FC         3
25/4/2026 Sunderland -  Forest          0
2/5/2026  Chelsea -  Forest           0
6/5/2026   Forest - Newcastle United      3
17/5/2026 Manchester United -  Forest      0
24/5/2026  Forest - AFC Bournemouth       3

[Westham67]

Leeds next six matches could see them falter. We played much better yesterday as we have an outlet up front. I hope we keep Wilson 

[Sir Alf]

With 7 points ar home and 10 away, i think we can conclude we need to fix our home form to gave any chance of keeping hope alive.  

Unfortunately we struggle with teams that sit deep and compact and who break quickly. The 2 new lads up top help simply due to their work ethic by pressing and challenging from the front throughout the time they are on the pitch.  But we still look far too slow and a tad too weak physically in challemges through the middle imho.  Been a long long time since West Ham controlled the midfield in a game for 45 mins let alone 90

[Tomshardware]

Our outside chance is some team collapsing
Bournemouth without Semenyo
Palace if Glasner leaves and they implode
Tottenham … IF THERE IS A GOD

Spurs have got Burnley away next, after that they have a run of tough games.   If Burnley beat them then it could get interesting.

[Westham67]

My first game at the OS wll be Sunderland thanks to a MATE 

[yngwies Cat]

Who needs Mid table mediocrity and nothing to play for, when your still in the cup and scrapping in a relegation battle.

Bring it on. 

[Fauxstralian]

Our outside chance is some team collapsing
Bournemouth without Semenyo
Palace if Glasner leaves and they implode
Tottenham … IF THERE IS A GOD

[pdcwhu]

Believe 

[Fauxstralian]

17 points with 16 games left
Reckon might need high 30’s so probably need 6 wins
Sunderland at home has to be one of them
Would still have us as down but need to get back into the pack in the bottom half & only wins will do

[ragingbull]

Only chance we have and its a slim one is catching Forest,but they are still in Europe which could effect them slightly 
Palace are definitely in decline but have too many points already so will stay up no problem 

Problem is Forest are getting the rub of green that was a clear handball by Aina yesterday.

[threesixty]

Are we now one of the only teams in the PL that are essentially playing 4-4-2? 
I feel like having 2 mobile attackers although not the sharpest, ends up bringing more balance. With just 1 guy up there isolated it always looks easy for defenders to deal with unless they are workhorses like Antonio.  pressing also better with a front 2. 

I suppose we will know more against Sunderland as spurs and qpr may not be a good benchmark for us. 

 

[zico]

If nothing else the attitude, effort and fight was there yesterday although you have to question why it wasn't against the likes of Wolves. Still think we need more signings with quality as well as legs. Taty and Pablo at least run about a bit and fight for the ball but we need a bit more quality and another centre back even though Mav and Todibo did well yesterday.

[Vexed]

They've done the bit where they give us a tiny bit of hope, just as we were getting used to the idea of a championship clear out. Next comes the shit all over us again bit where we don't turn up and get pumelled at home to Sunderland.

We need signings, hopefully that cսnt Sullivan will get a few in before the weekend so we at least have an option off the bench. 

[Gary Strodders shank]

If we can beat Sunderland then I think the great escape is on

Before Tottenham I thought nine wins from seventeen games would keep us up and we have made a decent start.

It's best not to worry about the teams above and concentrate on getting our own points on the board.

We really aren't that bad a team and could easily of beat Forest Brighton and Villa in that run of games around Christmas but a lack of leadership confidence basic errors and VAR stuffed us 

Hopefully we have turned a corner and this isn't a false dawn.

Maybe we will slso start to get the rub of the green more now we are playing better as we certainly haven't had it thus far.

 

[El Scorchio]

The virtual acceptance of relegation has been disturbed by this reducing of two points on our deficit with Forest.

Now we have the stress of dealing with a scintilla of hope until the next league game.

We'll do enough to keep hope lingering for quite a while I should expect. Only to claw it back to a realistic chance in the last few weeks of the season only to then indeed go down but in a very cruel and unlucky way.

[,]

The virtual acceptance of relegation has been disturbed by this reducing of two points on our deficit with Forest.

Now we have the stress of dealing with a scintilla of hope until the next league game.

[Westham67]

Fuck off Sir Alfs you sanctimonious cսnt calling other posters foolhardy because we think we may stay up..You made a fool of yourself on the Tottenham v West ham match thread 

[Sir Alf]

Far too early and foolhardy imo to read too much into a very welcome win yesterday. Improved attitude and battling was the main positive along with VAR and marginals going our way. 

Another CB needed but also another central midfielder with pace and strength. Soucek did well in this match and against this opposition. He will always be an asset in both boxes aerially.  But in many games against different teams, and especially those that employ fast counter attacking tactics, he can be very ineffective.  Thats the thing, every opposition is not the same and we tend to match up better with teams that are more open and not sitting deep. Thats why we struggle a lot at home.

We need another CB but more pace in centeal
midfield to handle counters and move the ball quicker. Ideally we would have got a quicker central striker but the 2 lads that have come in, while not quick, do compensate with a high work rate of pressing and give us more outlets going forward.

[honky cat]

There's still 16 games left. If we can get a CB in, maybe.
I'd fancy points against chelsea more than sunderland, it would be so west ham.
As long as we go down fighting and win the FA Cup, ill be happy

[Massive Attack]

They don't call them The Tricky Trees for nothing.





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[THUNDERCLINT]

Yesterday was brilliant, but the damage has been done sadly.

We needed to beat Fucking Fulham at home, as soon as we lost that, we were done.

Yep, too llittle, too late.

Yesterday was a hoot though, our situation made it even funnier.

[THUNDERCLINT]

Only chance we have and its a slim one is catching Forest,but they are still in Europe which could effect them slightly 
Palace are definitely in decline but have too many points already so will stay up no problem 

We've as much chance of catching Forest as an underage Cambodian raspberry has of escaping your hanging tree.

[Eerie Decent]

Yesterday was brilliant, but the damage has been done sadly.

We needed to beat Fucking Fulham at home, as soon as we lost that, we were done.