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Arsenal (H) 5:30pm Saturday 30 November live on Sky
Thing is jay 80-85% of managers aren’t successful. I guess it depends what successful means, different things to different people. -
Other teams/matches
It is astonishing how far and how fast City have fallen apart - Liverpool look really good but City are chasing shadows and pointing fingers at each other - 18mins in and they have hardly been in Liverpools half.
Liverpool could have had three by now -
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. -
Cricket
England knock the runs off inside 13 overs, with debutant Bethell hitting the winning run that completed his maiden Test half century. England win by 8 wickets 😊. -
Arsenal (H) 5:30pm Saturday 30 November live on Sky
AWB, is he our new CF?
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Couldn't Think - from January 2024
Many thanks and good wishes to all - and for the record, although I initially thought it weird, I am now a total advocate for green bean casserole with our thanksgiving dinner - look it up :-) -
Other teams/matches
Is it worth just having a general thread for this, especially with the games coming thick and fast.
Maybe open for a month then a new one rather than weekly which sometimes doesn’t generate much traction 🤷♂️
Any who
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Couldn't Think - from January 2024
So Portsmouth v Millwall postponed after the scheduled kick off time due to a power failure at Fratton Park.
I wonder if the Millwall fans were singing "No one lights us, we don't care" ?
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Arsenal (H) 5:30pm Saturday 30 November live on Sky
Todibo Came off against Newcastle .said it was a hamstring any news on that
https://www.hammers.news/news/what-was-really-wrong-with-west-hams-worst-player-as-newcastle-win-marred-by-fears/
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Newcastle (A) 8pm Monday 25th November (live on Sky)
