West Ham vs Bournemouth | PL | 21.2.26 | Predictions & Match Thread

[Mad Ferret]

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WHU: 8/5
Draw: 11/4
Bournemouth: 17/10

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Not sure I'd bring Todibo straight back in.

.........................Hermanson

AWB.....Mavropanos.....Disasi.....Diouf

Bowen.....Fernandes.....Soucek.....Summerville

..........................Taty Costalot

..............................Wilson

[Mad Ferret]

Andoni Iraola admitted his Bournemouth side could not cope with West Ham’s intensity from kick-off. The hosts are finally playing like a team fighting for their Premier League lives and two clean sheets in three games tells a story, as does just one defeat in six league games


So not just an off day for them that we didn't take advantage of but good from us and did everything but take our chances. 

And the point is what?? Yea we played ok, platitudes and compliments are not of any use are they, we need to be winning games, not going down with compliments from other gaffers ffs!! Besides, we didn't create that many chances and wouldn't have scored had we been out there all fucking night.

Give it a rest.

[fraser]

Andoni Iraola admitted his Bournemouth side could not cope with West Ham’s intensity from kick-off. The hosts are finally playing like a team fighting for their Premier League lives and two clean sheets in three games tells a story, as does just one defeat in six league games


So not just an off day for them that we didn't take advantage of but good from us and did everything but take our chances. 

And the point is what?? Yea we played ok, platitudes and compliments are not of any use are they, we need to be winning games, not going down with compliments from other gaffers ffs!! Besides, we didn't create that many chances and wouldn't have scored had we been out there all fucking night.

The point is some said they had an off day and weren't up to their usual standards and we should have took advantage without giving us any credit for being the reason that they had an off day. 
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[Manuel]

Andoni Iraola admitted his Bournemouth side could not cope with West Ham’s intensity from kick-off. The hosts are finally playing like a team fighting for their Premier League lives and two clean sheets in three games tells a story, as does just one defeat in six league games


So not just an off day for them that we didn't take advantage of but good from us and did everything but take our chances. 

And the point is what?? Yea we played ok, platitudes and compliments are not of any use are they, we need to be winning games, not going down with compliments from other gaffers ffs!! Besides, we didn't create that many chances and wouldn't have scored had we been out there all fucking night.

[fraser]

Andoni Iraola admitted his Bournemouth side could not cope with West Ham’s intensity from kick-off. The hosts are finally playing like a team fighting for their Premier League lives and two clean sheets in three games tells a story, as does just one defeat in six league games


So not just an off day for them that we didn't take advantage of but good from us and did everything but take our chances. 

[Tomshardware]

I saw a comment asking what's happened to Diouf and putting crosses in and that we don't see too many and isn't that primarily why we bought him? Made me think, the Burnley assist aside is he coming up short in that regard?

Diouf whipped that ball into Wilson who could/should've scored.

Yeah that was a lovely ball in.

[Mad Ferret]

I saw a comment asking what's happened to Diouf and putting crosses in and that we don't see too many and isn't that primarily why we bought him? Made me think, the Burnley assist aside is he coming up short in that regard?

Diouf whipped that ball into Wilson who could/should've scored.

[fraser]

I saw a comment asking what's happened to Diouf and putting crosses in and that we don't see too many and isn't that primarily why we bought him? Made me think, the Burnley assist aside is he coming up short in that regard?

 

 

My guess is that he has been under instruction not to push too far forward. That does seem weird given that his forward runs and crossing were meant to be his superpower but that is what Nuno's current system demands.

It is interesting that sites such as Whoscored and Sofascore who rank players on various data/ analytic measures both made Diouf Man of the Match on Saturday. To me, he was OK but didn't stand out. There was one good cross onto Wilson's head if I remember correctly.

I thought Diouf was excellent Saturday, defensively very good. 

[Rossal]

Disappointing performance.  Thought we looked bang average going forward which after causing Man Utd and Chelsea so many problems was deeply disappointing.  As predicted in the line up discussion, Fernandes in the 10 does not work. He drops too deep and Taty gets left isolated. 

Should of been 4 points at least from Man Utd and sat and its just 2. Thats the story of our season, the games where we should close the gap we haven't really taken advantage of it. 

[John Drake]

I saw a comment asking what's happened to Diouf and putting crosses in and that we don't see too many and isn't that primarily why we bought him? Made me think, the Burnley assist aside is he coming up short in that regard?

 

 

 

My guess is that he has been under instruction not to push too far forward. That does seem weird given that his forward runs and crossing were meant to be his superpower but that is what Nuno's current system demands.

It is interesting that sites such as Whoscored and Sofascore who rank players on various data/ analytic measures both made Diouf Man of the Match on Saturday. To me, he was OK but didn't stand out. There was one good cross onto Wilson's head if I remember correctly.

[Manuel]

I saw a comment asking what's happened to Diouf and putting crosses in and that we don't see too many and isn't that primarily why we bought him? Made me think, the Burnley assist aside is he coming up short in that regard?

[Vexed]

Hope the rumors are true of Brady leaving, definitely not willingly she will be pushed otherwise why would you give up a million bucks a year for doing nothing turning up on a saturday afternoon for an all inclusive business lunch for 90 minutes easy money.

She's walking prior to something disastrous being announced I reckon. Or before we're pretty much relegated and the knives are out for her. I dont think she'd get pushed given the catalogue of disasters she's somehow escaped accountability for, the horrible old bag. 

Are you still waiting on those Sulli Al-Fayed rumours to come good? 

That's on the list of possibilities surely?! 

[Matt Holmes]

Totally agree with a few posters

perfomances are so much better

bit we’re not quite putting teams away or fine margins are  costing points 

but The deficit from the first half of the season could be too much to make up

we need a little luck as well

performances alone aren’t going to be enough 
we need results and some against bigger teams starting with Liverpool….

or we’ll be by far the best team in the championship (assuming we replace or keep fernandes)

[zico]

Just need to work in training on these short passes in the opposition penalty area.  Two goals we could have had last night with a better ball, Wilson's to Summerville that was slightly behind him and Summerville to Bowen was just not quite right.  

[eusebiovic]

Hope the rumors are true of Brady leaving, definitely not willingly she will be pushed otherwise why would you give up a million bucks a year for doing nothing turning up on a saturday afternoon for an all inclusive business lunch for 90 minutes easy money.

She's walking prior to something disastrous being announced I reckon. Or before we're pretty much relegated and the knives are out for her. I dont think she'd get pushed given the catalogue of disasters she's somehow escaped accountability for, the horrible old bag. 

Are you still waiting on those Sulli Al-Fayed rumours to come good? 

[Sir Alf]

Wilson was always the poacher type and comes alive in the box but time has caught up and while he was never quick he’s now a split second slower to get shots off etc. He is still selfish as strikers often are but he’s offerrimg little more than fresh legs currently. Lets hope he has one more little purple patch somehiw befire end of season but should only ever be a sub imho

[fraser]

If Wilson can't play the Pablo role how does he play the Taty role as they both defend from the front as a pair. 

[Vexed]

Wilson had to start, with Taty dropping back and doing the Pablo job of chasing and closing down.

Wilson would have been knackered by 20mons. The bloke is a waste of space. Even against knackered defenders at the end of the game he offered fu k all. Getting a bit tired of people thinking he's the answer after his goal against Tottingham. He's done absolutely fuck all since and pretty much had done fuck all before. 

[BoleynGone]

For a team that needed to win we didn't do enough.
Bournemouth had the better chances but we nearly scored from a Wilson flick and Summerville who couldn't put enough on the ball. Solid defence but our forward 3 didn't create enough. Subs were to late. Wilson for Soucek on the hour, on a booking,unaffective in the game and would have like to have seen Kante on ten minutes earlier. 
Nuno thought 1 point was enough otherwise he would have put Traore on if he rated him so much.Baffling.

The 3 players left out from the Burton game played poorly work that out. 

Nuno better get off his lazy fat arse and watch the u21's tomorrow. Can't have 7 defensive players on the bench in a must win game,ludicrous.
 

[Mad Ferret]

Wilson had to start, with Taty dropping back and doing the Pablo job of chasing and closing down.

[moorethanjustananon]

Also, having never really seen much of him before I was led to believe that Disasi would be somewhat of a disaster… from what I’ve seen so far he looks a decent player!

[moorethanjustananon]

Appreciate last night was a missed opportunity, given how well we nullified Bournemouth and the chances we created but fuck me it’s gloomy on here.

3 wins, 2 draws and a loss in the last 6 league games? Carry that forward into the last 11 and we’ll be fine surely?

[Vexed]

Hope the rumors are true of Brady leaving, definitely not willingly she will be pushed otherwise why would you give up a million bucks a year for doing nothing turning up on a saturday afternoon for an all inclusive business lunch for 90 minutes easy money.

She's walking prior to something disastrous being announced I reckon. Or before we're pretty much relegated and the knives are out for her. I dont think she'd get pushed given the catalogue of disasters she's somehow escaped accountability for, the horrible old bag. 

[ragingbull]

Kante? He's even worse than Magassa. You clearly didn't watch the abomination of the Burton performance then with those two clowns supposedly being our central midfield.

They are both awful footballers. Kante gets a bit of a pass as we picked him up as a youth for next to nothing. But these idiots shelled out nearly £30 million for Magassa. A total waste of money and ridiculous signing given he is an awful footballer.

We paid 17.3 million for Magassa. He had an OK game yesterday.
But don't let a little thing like facts get in the way, you absolute fucking embarrassment. 

I thought 30 million was a bit much,but 17 million is about the going rate and he has every chance of improving.

[ragingbull]

Hope the rumors are true of Brady leaving, definitely not willingly she will be pushed otherwise why would you give up a million bucks a year for doing nothing turning up on a saturday afternoon for an all inclusive business lunch for 90 minutes easy money.

[fraser]

Kante? He's even worse than Magassa. You clearly didn't watch the abomination of the Burton performance then with those two clowns supposedly being our central midfield.

They are both awful footballers. Kante gets a bit of a pass as we picked him up as a youth for next to nothing. But these idiots shelled out nearly £30 million for Magassa. A total waste of money and ridiculous signing given he is an awful footballer.

We paid 17.3 million for Magassa. He had an OK game yesterday.
But don't let a little thing like facts get in the way, you absolute fucking embarrassment. 

 

Right about loser Lop, right about pathetic Potter, right about Benrahma, right about Paqueta, right about Fernandes, right about Summerville needing an end product. Yeah, how embarrassing!

You forgot Todibo the useless reject who you also think was the key to us winning yesterday.. 

Trying to spin it how you're right about Summerville who will never be more than championship level...