West Ham vs Man City (H) Match Thread 29/04/2018

IronHerb

Then it's better losing it at the bookies. ;whistle

Hammerex

Expat, are you sure you are not suffering with sun stroke. ;lol

OldCastleSwift

Adrian
Rice Ogbonna Evra
Zaba Fernandes Noble Kouyate Cresswell
Lanzini
Arnautovic

Is the line up according to Ex.

So the only genuine pace we have (Masuaku) is dropped to the bench.

Given that we're likely to be playing on the counter attack, I'm not quite sure I get the logic there ;hmm

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Oh jeez.....sterling and Sane agaisnt Evra and Zaba whos combined age is 70.....

Lets hope Ex is wrong

Brother_Sledge

Zaba needs to be on a bit of elastic in case he tries to go forward - that way he can get back again twice as fast ;scarf

MarkNobleLocalHero

I'd have said that Arnie had a bit of pace wouldn't you OCS?

Lukerz

Tbh it’s just a case of keeping the score as low as possible before we go to Leicester.

So I suppose an extra defender in for an attacking outlet is the thinking. Either way it’s going to be defend for 90 and hope Lanzini and Arnie do something on the break.

Yeoldhammer

got Sane and Sterling in FF think its going to be a riot

OldCastleSwift

MarkNobleLocalHero said:

I'd have said that Arnie had a bit of pace wouldn't you OCS?

He does.

But a counter attack generally requires more than one player.

Masuaku, as frustrating as he is, is quick and is a very good dribbler. His ball retention could have been key for us today.

Yeoldhammer

got Sane and Sterling in FF think its going to be a riot

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Gonna be painful this

While i get keeping it tight to keeo the score down... man city are ruthless they will just wear us down untill the players are dead on their feet

We need to try retain possession at least a little

Cuz1

My god please explain why evra

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

OldCastleSwift said:

MarkNobleLocalHero said:

I'd have said that Arnie had a bit of pace wouldn't you OCS?

He does.

But a counter attack generally requires more than one player.

Masuaku, as frustrating as he is, is quick and is a very good dribbler. His ball retention could have been key for us today.

I think Lanzini is one of the quickest players we have. I’d rather Lanzini and Arnie breaking that Masuaku and Arnie.

OldCastleSwift

OutcastLondoner

Are we going to sit right in front of the goal for the whole game? Because that back line isn't going catch anyone who gets in behind them.

OldCastleSwift

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes said:

OldCastleSwift said:

MarkNobleLocalHero said:

I'd have said that Arnie had a bit of pace wouldn't you OCS?

He does.

But a counter attack generally requires more than one player.

Masuaku, as frustrating as he is, is quick and is a very good dribbler. His ball retention could have been key for us today.

I think Lanzini is one of the quickest players we have. I’d rather Lanzini and Arnie breaking that Masuaku and Arnie.

Why does it have to be Masuaku or Lanzini? Why not have Masuaku at LWB instead of Cresswell? Then we have three players capable of breaking rather than two.

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

OCS,

Masuaku cannot defend as well as Cresswell, and is usually a yellow card or a penalty or a mistake waiting to happen anywhere in our half. Against City, the wing backs are likely to be doing a lot more defending than attacking, so it makes sense (to me) to have a better defender in at LWB.

Deanscaleshammer

I can see the logic.

Make it difficult for them to score and see if we can take the likely rare chances that come our way.

Maybe bring more attacking options on later if we are still in with a shout of any points.

puddleglumhammers

Clearly a team to try and get 1 point, which is fair vs Man City, I suppose. But a shame to see 3 strikers on the bench. Carroll for Fernandes would have been more exciting.

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Just cant see us getting close to them...nor do i think we have the legs to plug the gaps for 90 minutes

imagelost

Nil nil will do
coyi

Expat_Hammer

Hammerex said:

Expat, are you sure you are not suffering with sun stroke. ;lol

Stranger things have happened at sea ;lol

Nurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrse

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years said:

Just cant see us getting close to them...nor do i think we have the legs to plug the gaps for 90 minutes

At the end of the day, they’ve beaten every team in the league this season. They could well finish with record points and record goals this season. Almost nobody has got close to them or plugged the gaps. That’s how good they are.

Vorselaarhammer

O dear... ;sofa

No attacking because we will be killed on the counter...

1 point ;pray

grey_til_I_dye

We gave them a really good game at the Etihad, one of the harder PL games they've had this season, I'd say.

Think we all accept this is a 'take your medicine' game, so I just hope there's some sugar in our performance to make it go down more easily.

steve

Hope we keep it at 3 .............don't want to embarrass the champions ;whistle

OldCastleSwift

Sky have it as a 3-4-3

I think that's a bit unlikely

Yeoldhammer

Should have taken my 7-0-3 formation and approach.

#HoofNotYouth

Lukerz

Good start

Vorselaarhammer

I think I will do my laundry....