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Accrington Stanley, I mean Manchester City... who are they?
I am not because we will never hear the end of it on here if Liverpool win it!
Loving their slump and it'll be someone else who wins the title this season! -
Arsenal (H) 5:30pm Saturday 30 November live on Sky
1/3 of the season gone and we are just 4 pts behind Man Utd, Newcastle, Aston Villa, Bournemouth and Fulham and 7 points behind 6th place. 3 of our next 5 games are against teams below us.
As some have already said no need to panic as yet.
Speaking for myself, I always thought this year would be a rebuilding season with all the outgoing and incoming. I wasn’t expecting us to be tearing up the league. Did i wish us to be doing better? Of course i did but I am by no means viewing this season so far as disastrous.
Come January I may feel different but for now I am not worried about relegation. -
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Don't like Liverpool -
Arsenal (H) 5:30pm Saturday 30 November live on Sky
I have become a little more optimistic over these last two matches, even the Arsenal one as the scoreline was distorted by two silly penalties. We now look like the players are speaking the same language a little more and the speed at which players make themselves available has increased and this is a big part of any good side. As soon as a player has the ball he needs as many outlets for it as possible by players finding space, dropping off or making runs, we have definitely done this better in these last two matches. I think the matches between now and the new year will provide a little optimism for the second half of the season, I hope so at least. -
Arsenal (H) 5:30pm Saturday 30 November live on Sky
Better than losing 6-0... -
Arsenal (H) 5:30pm Saturday 30 November live on Sky
My comparison is simply to highlight it’s not as ‘Armageddon’ as some fans suggest (not you, Jay).
We finished 9th last season; we’re 4 points up on the same games.
If you said now we’d finish 9th this season, I’d say that was fairly respectable. -
Arsenal (H) 5:30pm Saturday 30 November live on Sky
I don't think it's personally a true reflection to compare last season results for use as a comparison, as if you include how much money we spent pre-season, there IMO should have been a higher increase regardless of the new manager effect.....
But that's not always the case, money doesn't always guarantee results, especially short term... and it's not like the teams we've faced haven't also tried to improve themselves like we have
Liverpool didn't sign anyone and they're flying
Chelsea spent a record number and 2 years later they seem to have finally found some form
No guarantees in football... especially when the money we spent was a necessity given years of mismanagement for the squad size/depth/age/contracts that required a big turnaround in the squad -
Arsenal (H) 5:30pm Saturday 30 November live on Sky
There is no doubt Arsenal were the better team and were by a country mile. That’s the 4th defeat in our 7 home games and I’m sure there are more to come. We’ve conceded an average of 2 goals per game for the whole of 2024 and don’t seem like changing that any time soon even after 2 successive clean sheets before tonight.
I don’t think there are many more to come.
Everything Arsenal do they do in game after game especially corners but we seemed to have been taken by surprise.
What’s quite clear this season is all our defeats have been against sides either in the ‘traditional’ top 6 or are currently in the top 9:
West Ham 1-2 Villa (9th)
West Ham 1-3 Man City (4th)
West Ham 0-3 Chelsea (5th)
Liverpool (1st) 5-1 West Ham (cup)
Spurs (8th) 4-1 West Ham
Forest (6th) 3-0 West Ham
West Ham 2-5 Arsenal (2nd)
The rest of the games is where we have taken points:
Palace 0-2 West Ham
West Ham 1-0 Bournemouth (cup)
Fulham 1-1 West Ham
Brentford 1-1 West Ham
West Ham 4-1 Ipswich
West Ham 2-1 Man Utd
West Ham 0-0 Everton
Newcastle 0-2 West Ham
That’s four goals conceded in 8 games (4 clean sheets) against sides outside the traditional top 6. 15 points from 7 league games.
I genuinely am not concerned. We are four points better off from the same games last season, we are unbeaten against sides in the bottom half/lower reaches of the top half & we now have a more ‘winnable’ run of games & Kudus is back.
Yes I would have rather we not had so many games where we let in 3-5 goals. But it’s clear that our new ‘open’ style of football is exploited against the best sides but gets results against the lesser teams.
JL will be judged on this Xmas period. It will either make or break him.
We have to be careful not to take what we are seeing out of context because of a few batterings - we basically lose to good teams & get results against the rest. Performances have been inconsistent but we are only 13 games in. -
Arsenal (H) 5:30pm Saturday 30 November live on Sky
Right. Vino required. -
Arsenal (H) 5:30pm Saturday 30 November live on Sky
How was that not a corner? I truly give up with this ref.
