West Ham vs Crystal Palace, 17.30, Saturday, 5th Oct
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As soon as I saw that I thought it was pretty obvious what was going to happen.
Thought Haller was our MOM in a pretty average performance.
Onwards and upwards.
The performance after the goal smacked of complacency to me.
The two times we showed any incisive intent, we either scored or forced the keeper into a save. Maybe we should have tried that a bit more often.
Next four games are key. Everton, Sheff Utd, Newcastle and Burnley. We need to get a good points return from those given what follows, else our season could get stuck in mid-table again. Though to be fair, that's probably where we deserve to be.
When you look at a team like Man City of Liverpool their strikers and advanced midfielders are hungrier, more inventive and lethal. We are a long way away from that. May be this defeat will encourage some rethink.
And yet we keep coming back. Like the unfaithful partner that we know is going to cheat on us again, we let West Ham back in, and then complain when they do.
I get my spoon :ale:
However the big issue in my view is actually how few really solid chances our beautiful ball play and possession actually results in. We need penetrate more and this is why we are not scoring enough in games such as these. I have not known a Wes Ham side that can play at such speed firing ball to feet and retain possession in close play, it does however need lead to more goal scoring opportunities. Anderson is the perfect example of this as his feet are a thing of beauty, it's as though he glues the ball to his feet and walks past players, but there needs be more end product. I was about to write that we need a genuine player who can support Haller, I then remembered we do in Antonio, but without him to come on or even start we lack that penetration.
Also credit to Hodgson, I am not a fan but what he is getting from that bunch is a feat of management, can anyone imagine Jordon Ayew getting anywhere near starting for us?
As for us I think we are getting there and looking a very decent side in the making, my fear is we may not get there quick enough to keep the players who are helping us get there. At present I would go into any game aside from City and Pool realistically hoping to get something and that's not bad. We didn't get what we deserved today and we will have matches like that but we went into the game feeling good about what we hope is to come and although disappointed I dn't see any reason to feel it was a false hope. We are still on the up.
It's the attacking players who are letting us down at the moment. I don't think we've had one game where they've all really clicked and we've posed the threat those 4 or 5, on paper, should pose from all angles.
Lanzini barely touches the ball anywhere near the opponent's box.
Felipe is a shadow of himself, hardly ever shooting or trying to beat a man.
Yarmo is hot and cold.
Haller is so isolated sometimes he must think he's wandered into the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
I'm hopeful it will change and we'll see some or all of them hit some great form soon. Really, against a very average Palace defence, it was so poor to only create the chances we did.
That is the issue c&bsky. we need to achieve something whilst we have these players otherwise it will be yet another false dawn and they will have moved onto clubs that actually gain honours or at least get to play in Europe.
Rice, maybe.
Haller looks worth the money, but he’s played seven games and somebody is going to have to pay us almost double to part with him.
Felipe, Lanzini and Yarmo don’t have the form to attract buyers.
Either of those players could cost £80 or £90M now. The only teams we need to worry about are the top, top sides.
It was a football match, but much like this londis house red, just not terribly good.