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One of which a striker sitting on the sidelines in his kit seeing a winger go on in front of him 😂
He can't keep living in the past. 6th and 7th will mean nothing if we're in the Championship next season.
Just bants… nothing personal intended…..⚒️
Is this why we struggle to score goals on a regular basis?
Then I come on here and read the comments………..
Slacker… sorry, but that’s no way accurate IMO
In a nutshell, it leads to my belief that DM is way to set in his ways as I really struggle to understand why DM does not at least try out Ings and Scamacca as a pair up top
Another link to a report which indicates I am not alone?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2023/03/12/do-west-ham-actually-realise-relegation-battle/
My positives were that the team seemed to be really up for it and battled like a side who recognise the situation they are in. It may not have been his best game but Rice's attitude is certainly not someone seeing out the season, he was a man possessed at times and it nearly spilled over once or twice.
My man of the match was Emmerson, whilst I was pleased that Bowen looked a little more like the player we had last season.
My criticism is that we needed three points here and they were there for the taking in my view. I think Moyes was too careful again and didn't use our subs to change the game as afraid of losing the point. This wasn't a six pointer however and I would have gambled for all three by taking off Soucek and adding Scamacca into the forward line and play two up front with twenty to go.
Brighton v Palace v Weds
Forest v Newcastle - Fri
Villa v Bournemouth- Sat
Brentford v Leicester - Sat
Southampton v Spurs - Sat
Wolves v Leeds - Sat
Chelsea v Everton - Sat
Arsenal v Palace - Sun
So we need Villa to win, Leeds to not win & Southampton to take no more than 2 points from their 2 games, to stay out the bottom 3 before international break.
We had 17 and 6 and Villa 12 and 4.
Based on that I think to say we were set up to not lose is stretching it a bit. It looks more to me that our attackers, whoever they are, are not properly firing.
Our away games are almost a write off, as we don’t win away games.
*Benrahma had a great chance to play Bowen in as he broke the offside trap high up the pitch, but found the defender.
*Bowen drove forward really well, but his pull back was just behind Fornals who couldn't then get a shot on target.
*Paqueta played a lovely ball along the edge of the 6 yard box but no-one attacked it.
*Benrahma danced his way to and along the byline, but couldn't keep his cross out of Martinez's reach.
*Aguerd poked a ball just wide instead of on target.
*Zouma put a very good chance with a header wide.
On another day we could easily have scored another goal or two, it's certainly far from the worst we've played all season, but again some shoddy defending means one goal wasn't enough. On the plus side, at least we came back from a goal down again, but it really does feel like two points we could ill afford to drop today.
Overall Benrahma attempted a lot of shots, but, as too often this season, on the whole they really weren't particularly threatening. He gets in a lot of good positions, but he coulda scored a whole lot more this season, and at times his decision making, both with shots and passes, leaves a lot to be desired; he can be incredibly frustrating to watch.
Wrt Scamacca, I read somewhere that his "data" (presumably fitness levels) isn't where it should be (or more likely, isn't where it was earlier in the season given that we won't really have too much else to go on), so maybe that's why Moyes is reluctant to use him, either because he feels Scamacca won't be fit enough to do well, or because he's more likely to injure himself again if he plays when not fully fit.
I saw after the Brighton game that the super computer still has us staying up; I'd be interested to see its output after this weekend, particularly with Bournemouth and Southampton gaining points that few expected.
36 points to play for, so plenty available to keep us up, but there's nothing in how we've played this season that makes me think we'll get more than 8-10, tops. Only the form of other clubs will determine whether that would be enough to stay up.