West Ham Vs Southampton, Sun 26th Dec - Kick off 3pm

MrsGrey

Never a pen. Contact outside the box.
Unless ref thinks the contact outside the box wasn't even a foul.

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

This CB pairing is going to see us slide quite a way down the table.

thornburyiron

If we knew how to defend it wouldn’t have happened.

Lukerz

Sorry but our CBs are so bad, 15 mins of domination and one simple ball and we’re behind

OldCastleSwift

In the West Ham game:

"Armando Broja is brought down just inside the box and he is absolutely certain this is a penalty. VAR are of course having a look."


In the Arsenal game:

"Norwich are baffled they haven't got a penalty. They win a corner and as it is whipped in Alexandre Lacazette appears to bring down Kenny McLean. Referee Graham Scott allows play to continue and there is no intervention from VAR"

MrsGrey

thornburyiron said:

If we knew how to defend it wouldn’t have happened.

Are, there you are.

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Still think of the two errors, Diop was the worse

So easily turned on the half way line, from there Dawson was always in trouble (alobviously didn't crown himself in glory)

OldCastleSwift

MrsGrey said:

thornburyiron said:

If we knew how to defend it wouldn’t have happened.

Are, there you are.

He's not wrong though.

claretandbluesky

That incident is everything about why we are now where we are Diop terrible and Dawson not enough speed to recover. They are not a pairing for a competitive team.

MrsGrey

Keep the faith people.

yoyo

Benni boy!

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

BENNIEE!!!

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Brilliant from Bowen

If only we could defend we'd be cruising

OldCastleSwift

Dawson is fine when we're playing deep and are basically trying to block our way to a clean sheet.

When we have to play more progressively and higher up the pitch his lack of pace and ability with the ball is a liability.

alderz

OldCastleSwift said:

Dawson is fine when we're playing deep and are basically trying to block our way to a clean sheet.

When we have to play more progressively and higher up the pitch his lack of pace and ability with the ball is a liability.

Dawson wasn’t even that good last season he just scored a few headers

Lukerz

Defence back to it’s best

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Ref giving then everything

Really infuriating

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Damn....

Southampton get a 3rd

This is exhausting

Shocking defending again

OldCastleSwift

alderz said:

OldCastleSwift said:

Dawson is fine when we're playing deep and are basically trying to block our way to a clean sheet.

When we have to play more progressively and higher up the pitch his lack of pace and ability with the ball is a liability.

Dawson wasn’t even that good last season he just scored a few headers

He's never been great, but he's an effective, backs-to-the-wall type of defender. Sometimes it's what you need.

Right now, we need a million times better than Dawson and Diop.

thornburyiron

Our defending is not even worthy of the name. Poor in the extreme.

claretandbluesky

Diop sits at the back of the line to defend that free kick.... he is our tallest player! He is awful today.

alderz

Let’s be honest, nobody ever expected three of our first choice back four to be out at the same time. Dawson, Diop and Masuaku are all ok enough if one of them is replacing one of the main back four. I’m not convinced that we can do better for squad depth than these guys.

OldCastleSwift

If a PL club competing in the Europa League can't get a better left back than Arthur Masuaku then something's wrong, IMO.

MrsGrey

I was thinking exactly the same. (To alderz post)
I was also reflecting, as Matty Upson pundits away, that Dawson gives 100%, never sulks, never hides.

alderz said:

Let’s be honest, nobody ever expected three of our first choice back four to be out at the same time. Dawson, Diop and Masuaku are all ok enough if one of them is replacing one of the main back four. I’m not convinced that we can do better for squad depth than these guys.

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

alderz said:

Let’s be honest, nobody ever expected three of our first choice back four to be out at the same time. Dawson, Diop and Masuaku are all ok enough if one of them is replacing one of the main back four. I’m not convinced that we can do better for squad depth than these guys.

While i agree in some respect, the fact is all 3 are potentially out for an extended period so we can't use that excuse from now untill the end of the season

We need a new CB or use Alese or Baptiste, he'll even use one of Rice or Soucek

Can't just let this season die out

Yarmolenko about to come on for Benrahma....... yay.....

MrsGrey

OldCastleSwift said:

If a PL club competing in the Europa League can't get a better left back than Arthur Masuaku then something's wrong, IMO.

We can, I'm sure.

But we have had other priorities to sort out ( no Wildcards in the real world), and we were giving one of the kids a path into the first team to see how they coped. Which I'm ok with.

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

This has just been very bad. Reminds me of West Ham 2 or 3 years back. If one of Zouma or Ogbonna had avoided injury, we might have held it together better. Losing both has been a catastrophe.

thornburyiron

We always knew the long purple patch would hit a hiccup but few of us expected it to be such a huge sudden dip in form.

PrestonHammer

Losing to Southampton and now my internet has gone from reasonable speed to slow than a tortoise speed. I'm really fed up.

thornburyiron

Your internet is obviously keeping pace with us.