West Ham v Man City, Saturday 24th October, 12.30

whupathman

Ok now to see what we are made of

buffybegood

OldCastleSwift said:

Antonio injured? Sounds like it

He's off, Yarmo on

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Yarmo for Antonio

Looks like Bowen will go central

buffybegood

Cut apart there, Coufal sleeping, lucky it was a poor touch.

MIAHammer

I don’t understand why we have Haller if we’re not going to play him.
Maybe Moyes has a master plan.

OldCastleSwift

Haller's going on January I reckon. If he's fit for the bench, he should be fit for the game.

If he doesn't fit Moyes tactics, which I don't think he does (and nor do I think does Moyes), then there's no point him being here.

yoyo

OCS, I reckon you're right but I'm still a tad surprised he didn't come on

whupathman

Foden is a good player

buffybegood

OldCastleSwift said:

Haller's going on January I reckon. If he's fit for the bench, he should be fit for the game.

If he doesn't fit Moyes tactics, which I don't think he does (and nor do I think does Moyes), then there's no point him being here.

Could be he's fit for 15 or 20 mins, but not 40 mins. I agree it's not great for him though if he's now our 3rd choice.

buffybegood

The added concern is that Yarmalenko won't have the same energy on the right as Bowen, or provide the same amount of help to Coufal.

ianbishoplegend

Balbuena has terrible awareness

MIAHammer

We sold Diagana to pay Haller’s fee (supposedly). If he doesn’t fit we should have cut our losses. His fee is hardly going to go up if he can’t make the team even when he is the only striker available.

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Surprised we went with Yarmo as it moves Bowen off his strongest position as he has been tracking Cancelled whos getting to much space

Forden is a class player, transformed them

buffybegood

To make matters worse, looks like De Bruyne is coming on

yoyo

We need an outlet up front to hit and hold the ball

OldCastleSwift

yoyo said:

We need an outlet up front to hit and hold the ball

Yep, Haller now on.

OldCastleSwift

Yarmolenko's been poor since he came on. This is where I think we'll struggle this season; our strength in depth isn't great.

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What is Yarmolenko doing?

Too concerned trying to show that he can keep the ball well, beats the defender twice and just doesn't put the ball in the box

OldCastleSwift

Just hanging on now. We get on with City, let's just shake hands on the draw.

ScotHammer

Yarmalenko us having a nightmare!

alderz

At least Yarmo won’t be perturbed when Benrahma takes his place on the bench next week

buffybegood

Yarmalenko skinned and I thought Balbuena had put the cross into our net, but it was just wide.

Yarmo having a mare so far.

alderz

This is not a fun spot for them to have a free kick

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We've composed ourselves and stopped City creating

But they just seem to be turning the screw a bit

Players starting to look a bit leggy, they've worked hard today

yoyo

10 mins left, time for us to score 3 goals!

OldCastleSwift

Yarmolenko doing nowhere near enough at either end.

yoyo

GO ARTHUR!!

buffybegood

Masuaku giving me a heart attack as they threaten to break after our corner.

buffybegood

Great cover by Masuaku this time to prevent Mahrez getting a shot away.

Then a great chance for Fornals but a poor attempt at a lob over a stranded Ederson, although he may have been offside

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Fornals with a tired attempt to chip Ederson