West Ham Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2024/25

davycc

Good luck tonight super hammer hope you break the crap out of pool and score a toon of goals too.

Justin Credible Darts

cdgalwegian wrote: »

I'd be delighteder with an away win.

Its nice to have dreams

Shedite27

Would have loved to have Antonio against this Liverpool defence. Feeling surprisingly optimistic here

pjmn

COYI's

Ludo

Very soft peno there. 50/50 call between peno and a dive to be honest. Masuaku did seem to kick him so hard to argue with the decision but not too sure we would have gotten one for same thing at other end.

pjmn

.... you can be sure we wouldn't have got it - has Kevin Friend ever given us anything????

cdgalwegian

Ludo wrote: »

Very soft peno there. 50/50 call between peno and a dive to be honest. Masuaku did seem to kick him so hard to argue with the decision but not too sure we would have gotten one for same thing at other end.

Slight contact, followed by slightly delayed somersault/spasm by Salah; definite wrongful contact unfortunately though.

cdgalwegian

Hopefully Masuaku can make up for his unlikely unfortunate incident- he's come on leaps and bounds and has a lot of talent.
Going into the second half Moyes would normally double down on defence, but these days he might gamble on pushing forward. Given first half performances, with the threat mainly on the left, he might swap out Bowen for Yarmolenko, as Haller isn't get much service to swap out for him.

Man with broke phone

Masuaku did everything wrong not just kicking salah, he didnt even need to tackle he was going away from goal, he then stops and holds his hands up. Im sure hes kicking himself.

cdgalwegian

Phew.

Ludo

There we go...no surprise. Ah well.

cdgalwegian

The two subs up the level.:mad::(

pjmn

feck that..... ��

Justin Credible Darts

Justin Credible Darts wrote: »

you forgot to factor in the luck. There is no team in England with the luck of the scousers.

I would be delighted with an away point.

and sure enough

Captain Havoc

I think we should be happy at the moment. Picking up points against Leicester, Spurs and Man City makes up for the loss against Newcastle. Beating a middle of the road team, Wolves, by such a margin gives me confidence that West Ham are on the way to having a good season and hopefully we can be pushing for a European spot. How as ever, I 've been following West Ham long enough not to get my hopes up and just enjoy the positives while they ate here.

cdgalwegian

As long as we don't pick up many injuries, and Moyes' set-up predictablility isn't exploited like Pelligrini's was, we should be at least be mid-table at end of season. Oh the thought of relegation-free worries.
Haller just is not a lone striker, so depending on a fit Antonio is a big gamble.

Shedite27

Start of the season, with pretty much no transfers, and everyone around us strengethening, coming off a season where we finished 16th, I thought we'd struggle badly this year. Then when you look at the opening fixtures, I thought we'd be bottom at Halloween: Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Leicester, Everton, Wolves and Newcastle to start. 8 points from that is better than I'd expected, now the fixtures turn into the bottom half teams for Nov/Dec, we'll see if we really are better than these teams:
Fulham (h)
Sheffield United (a)
Aston Villa (h)
Man Utd (h)
Leeds (a)
Crystal Palace (h)
Chelsea (a)
Brighton (h)
Southampton (a)

15 points from those 9 games would have us set up well

Shedite27

VEry interested to see how tonight goes. Playing with a back 5 as underdogs is very different to playing at home to relegation candidates.

Shedite27

Shedite27 wrote: »

VEry interested to see how tonight goes. Playing with a back 5 as underdogs is very different to playing at home to relegation candidates.

Yup, totally different game playing as favourites. Could ya imagine if there was a full stadium tonight. Would have got nervous/toxic in that second half. Might even have played into Fulham’s hands.

Antonio is irreplaceable in this team

Shedite27

Shedite27 wrote: »

Yup, totally different game playing as favourites. Could ya imagine if there was a full stadium tonight. Would have got nervous/toxic in that second half. Might even have played into Fulham’s hands.

Antonio is irreplaceable in this team

It worked!

cdgalwegian

Phewwwwww!

cdgalwegian

Benrahma was nearly hero to zero there; good impact when on, then school boy error.
Hammers made hard work of that.

Man with broke phone

Rough run 11points from 8 mostly tough games with Antonio out for some of it. Id say West Ham could have a safe enough season and be far from any relegation fight this year.

Id say Moyes could get them to where he got everton after a year or so. They are turning into my second favourite team.

Captain Havoc

Crossbar twice but got there in the end. If I was Scott Parker, I'd be furious with the penalty taker, absolute clown for trying that to tie the game.

Shedite27

Captain Havoc wrote: »

Crossbar twice but got there in the end. If I was Scott Parker, I'd be furious with the penalty taker, absolute clown for trying that to tie the game.

I don't know who to blame in that situation.

Mitrovic for not being stronger as the talisman striker and demanding the ball?
Captian for not giving the ball to the star striker?
Manager for not demanding that his star striker to take it?
Obviously Lookman for trying something so stupid at a vital time.
Do ya reckon other players knew what he was at? Like had he practiced it at training during the week?

The White Feather

Shedite27 wrote: »

I don't know who to blame in that situation.

Mitrovic for not being stronger as the talisman striker and demanding the ball?
Captian for not giving the ball to the star striker?
Manager for not demanding that his star striker to take it?

Mitrovic had a hamstring issue which is why he didn't take the penalty. They said that on Match of the Day.

cdgalwegian

Haller be thy name!
Ffs though, with a game like this, and how it's gone, Benrahma should have been on at half-time.

The Jman

hopefully that goal will give Haller a bit of confidence and he'll push on now. 8th place, Antonio to come back and hopefully Benrahma can prove to be a quality player, things are looking good!!

pjmn

Great strike by Haller....

Hammer Archer

West Ham managed to salvage an absolutely horrific sporting week for me.

laoch na mona

I laughed reading this, I had very low expectations of the season.

https://www.football365.com/news/west-ham-arent-sht-moyes-rice-soucek

Shedite27

laoch na mona wrote: »

I laughed reading this, I had very low expectations of the season.

https://www.football365.com/news/west-ham-arent-sht-moyes-rice-soucek

We finished 16th last season, bought nobody, the team below us (Villa) got Watkins, Barkley etc so were likely to be better than us. It's the same players, the same managers, maybe the mystery really is why we were so bad last year. I'm guessing trying to fit Andersen, Haller etc into the team didn't work

Hammer Archer

A win tomorrow puts us 4 off the top in 5th!
3-0 loss it is.
Seriously though, if we were to actually put in a series of performances over the next month, we'd be in such a strong position given the opposition. But I said that last season after we beat Man U. That run ended with Pellegrini getting sacked.

davycc

Rip Pappa diop only 42

Hammer Archer

Stockport County from what I still call the Vauxhall Conference in the FA Cup third round.

Shedite27

Antonio starting tonight

Ludo

5th at stake and we are on a good run....We're losing tonight.

The White Feather

Good first 15 mins and 1 up.........

The White Feather

They have started to boss it in the last 5. That header they had should have been in the net

The White Feather

That was coming. We have let them boss it since the 15 min.

Disappointing after a great start

cdgalwegian

Coufal up against biggest diver most fouled player in EPL.

Ludo

Ref is useless. That was NOT a foul by Antonio. We are **** also which isn't helping of course.

Ludo

Benrahma time surely.

Haller and Benrahma for Bowen and Antonio at HT for me.

Ludo

And they are both on...finally.

Antonio and Masuaku off.

The White Feather

Immediate impact from Benrahma!!

Ludo

Glad he left Bowen on :-)

cdgalwegian

Fair dues to Moyes. I thought Antonio was looking slow at the end of the first half, so wasn't surprised to see Haller come on at start of second half, but thought he would do his usual trick and bring Benhrama on with ten minutes to go.

The White Feather

Grealish is such a diver

Hammer Archer

The White Feather wrote: »

Grealish is such a diver

No! He plays for England! He's an intelligent player that draws fouls.

cdgalwegian

Hammer Archer wrote: »

No! He plays for England! He's an intelligent player that draws fouls.

Kinda sad really. Turned out to be the real deal, but that drawing fouls lark is sooo negative.