West Ham vs Crystal Palace, 17.30, Saturday, 5th Oct

alderz

I’ve decided to take the dogs out. If we score I will take credit

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Anyone got a working stream? If yea dm me

grey_til_I_dye

Seems to me we are struggling to inject speed into our play when Palace drop deep.

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

This really is so poor. Where’s our urgency?

OldCastleSwift

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years said:

Anyone got a working stream? If yea dm me

Mate, I wouldn't bother. Unless it's the Noddy episode that Jorderz's daughter is watching that you're after.

OldCastleSwift

Lanzini now with a miss from a decent opportunity.

This has been pretty uninspiring again.

Hamstew

A frustrating subdued game

steve

not great was it :puzzled:

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

When Alderz gets back with his dogs, I might take them out for another walk.

steve

Rice was our best player

chicagohammer

Overall, that was a pretty dour affair with little urgency being shown by either side, Haller should have scored but one positive is that Roberto has done ok

jay_in_cpt

That was a 1st half of very little, Haller had a very good chance to score but didn't, other than that very little to mention, cannot say 1 player has impressed, apart from perhaps Rice, the rest very bang average IMO in the 1st half...

OldCastleSwift

steve said:

Rice was our best player

Standard now.

I've been really frustrated with Fredericks and Anderson. They get the ball on the touchline, but always (bar once) play it back inside. Last season's Anderson would be taking his full-back on. It's Joel Ward, for crying out loud.

MrsGrey

Pretty equal stuff so far. 4 shots each. 2 shots on target each.

Neither team wanting to go all gung ho and leave space for the nippy players behind. Staying tight. But need to move the ball a bit quicker. Declan and Yarmo with a couple of mistakes, but also done some good stuff. All need to just find an extra 10%.

Lukerz

Pretty flat game but we should be leading

Tempo is too slow

Think we need to be a bit more direct

Anderson needs to offer more

grey_til_I_dye

Palace are a difficult team to break down. If you accept the Spurs game as an outlier, they have only conceded 3 goals in the other 6 PL games.

We (team and fans) need to be patient, although we (the team) could do with moving the ball a bit more quickly.

OldCastleSwift

I'd almost be tempted to play Fredericks as a winger. I'm assuming he doesn't want to bomb on for fear of leaving a gap behind him.

Maybe Zaba at right back, Yarmo on the left and Anderson in the middle for Lanzini. At least then Fredericks could try to take on his man and get the ball in. Reckon Haller has the beating of the CBs in the box, so we need to get the ball into him.

alderz

I’ve made a decision regarding the second half.

We’re going out for dinner earlier than planned. Once again, I’ll take the credit for goals.

OldCastleSwift

Can I come?

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

No. We want to be alone.

OldCastleSwift

Are the dogs babysitting your girl?

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

They're all watching each other.

OldCastleSwift

Beats watching this game

MrsGrey

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes said:

Lanzini totally anonymous.

He needs time to get his match sharpness back. Those who have faith in him need to keep it.

thornburyiron

Huge chance spurned by ogbonna

OldCastleSwift

Now Ogbonna misses from six yards.

This is draining.

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

More to the point, when we've clearly played a training-ground set-piece with Haller heading it back across goal, why was nobody in the six yard box to head it in?

OldCastleSwift

Haller :wahoo:

SuzanneClaret

:goal:

OldCastleSwift

Great move