Sheffield Utd (H) Sat 30 Sept 3pm (not on TV)

Lukerz

So…

Bournemouth 1-1 West Ham
West Ham 3-1 Chelsea
Brighton 1-3 West Ham
Luton 1-2 West Ham
West Ham 1-3 Man City
Liverpool 3-1 West Ham
West Ham 2-0 Sheffield United

13 points from those 7 games, wow.

Lukerz

A lot has been said about whether our football can develop under Moyes, in terms of possession. The first goal yesterday showed it clearly is developing. Those patterns of play with the movement are clearly worked on in training & worked perfectly with releasing Coufal. We also had nice pieces of play against City & Liverpool for the goals we scored.

jay_in_cpt

Just wanna say that Emerson and Paqueta’s off field friendship seems to really help them connect on the pitch, their link up play is fabulous to watch… May it long continue ⚒️🇧🇷⚒️🇧🇷

Lukerz

I think Emerson has been fantastic this season, & I was worried about him as a LB in a back four.

Lukerz

Second half was a bit flat but I don’t think it’s realistic to play in fifth gear when you play a side not capable of getting into fifth gear.

Lukerz

I was speaking to a friend yesterday, how nice is it to see us build up play like we have against City, Liverpool & the first goal yesterday, instead of relying on Riceball to get us going with him getting it & driving through the thirds.

buffybegood

I've not seen MOTD; were they complimentary about our first goal? Maybe I'm biased, but I thought it was a really nice goal.

IronHerb

buffybegood said:

I've not seen MOTD; were they complimentary about our first goal? Maybe I'm biased, but I thought it was a really nice goal.

Yes they were, and about us in general.

buffybegood

Cheers Herb 👍

chicagohammer

All in all a decent performance, a win, 3 points and a clean sheet is never bad, however, after a strong first half, DM, once again failed to disappoint by removing our three most promising forward looking players and set out to close the game down and secure the points against arguably one of the weakest teams in the league.

A bad/poor strategy? Probably not, frustrating nonetheless…..definitely

MrsGrey

We've got a mid week European game.

Maybe he was husbanding our resources?

aka Managing....

chicagohammer

I get that

Kuchinghammer

I got the impression in the second half that we were waiting for them to attack, then hit them with a couple of goals on the break. Sheffield didn't do much attacking,so it became a stalemate.