West Brom (H) 11/02 - 15.00 k/o
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So, if the official had correctly given us the throw in, would WBA still have scored because of Slav's substitutions?
The minute we scored, WBA were going to try and come at us.
I'm not going to blame Slav, all my blame is used up on the inept officials.
I may have missed it on the thread. Did you give any credit to Slav for the changes whcih brought us back into the game?
They had taken their best attacker off.
My only gripe would be that although when he intended to bring on Fernandes the decision was right (IMO), however once the goal was scored the game changed (and it was after the goal the sub was allowed to occur). For me the right two went off but instead of Fernandes, Fletcher should have come on hustle up top and give extra height akin to Carroll from set plays. Would have given us:
................Randy...........
....Collins..Fonte..Reid.....
Cheik..Obiang..Nobes..Ant
...............Lanzini............
........Calleri......Fletch.....
However, hindsight is a wonderful thing. We just got unlucky at the death.
What it does show though IMO is that when Slav said he was "happy with what he had" when it came to transfers he was probably saying so through gritted teeth. When your first choice striker breaks down and neither of the specialist replacements play in his place it tells me everything I need to know.
I'm a bit perplexed by it.
Also he may have wanted another striker this window, but maybe none of the ones available were, in his opinion, good enough. You can't buy what isn't there.
Fair enough to say you can't buy what isn't there, but Southampton managed to get Gabbiadini for £17m and he's got 3 in 2 for them, so I think the players are there if you're prepared to pay for them.
Carroll is a big, big player for us, which leaves a big, big hole in our side when he's injured. We knew the risks with Carroll's fitness, and didn't cover it, IMO.
However I do agree we either need another out and out striker in the summer or trust Fletch if he's good enough.
Even if Calleri steps up and proves useful (though I currently doubt it) he plays a very different style to Carroll and we would have to play a completely different style to accommodate him.
Nobody to blame but the officials. How long must the deliberate cheating by officials go on against us.
It is utterly ridiculous now and something really should be done about it.
Referees for whatever reason are definitely anti West Ham.
I know where you're coming from though and he wasn't someone I particularly wanted, but he was an available striker that someone took a risk on and it looks like it's paying off ;ok
We were unlucky not to take the three points but I am more focused on the performance, and I am very proud of how they played, especially in the second half.
For me, our disallowed goal was probably justified as I think that Antonio did impede their keeper when coming back from an offside position, for their first goal, a foul could have been given but we did not help ourselves after that.
Thought the the tactics were spot on, I stand behind the decision to go for it and then to try to close the game out at the end.
We did not get the run of the green in any of the major decisions today but the result will not really impact us, but performances like that, certainly will.
COYI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38865237
Same goes for Slav. Last year he took grief for making attacking substitutions when we were leading and now he makes more defence minded changes he still gets it.
There's too much overreaction on here. Oh! What are we going to do without AC ;wahoo Well, we were 60 seconds from rounding off a decent performance without him against a well drilled team.
Come on people, support the team.
COYI
Obaing was excellent again, really pushing his passing range and trying to play the progressive pass. Lanzini back to the levels we know he can get to, 2nd half in particular he was outstanding against a very defensive side. Winston Reid was my MOTM; outstanding on the ball, great defensively and dd superbly well out of position after cresswell went off. Hopefully the break in Dubai will do us good, get some good work done over there and with some more players back we can get the 3 points off watford as we are playing well and looking much more like last season.
P,S Calleri did well off the bench, looks better physically ;thumbsup
Positive elements of the game was how mature we were in how we chased the game against a very solid, stable, in-form PL team. Going 1-0 down after 4 was the perfect start for them, as they could sit back the rest of the game and protect it, and we had to be careful that they wouldn't break and go 2-0. How we went about looking to get back into it was very encouraging. Patience, inventiveness, control and all this with a few players filling in. To then manage, after 65 minutes with no joy, to score and then increase the level of our display to seek the winner, was excellent. Players were all up for it and never let their heads drop. The officiating was questionable to say the least but I don't think it was terribly shocking.
Three main negative points. First is Randolph. Another game goes by where I feel a slightly better keeper would've done better on both WBA goals. Think he caused an air of panic in the box with the last minute goal. Which was the second negative; the way we shot ourselves in the foot with the second goal, by almost mentally going into defence mode, when we had played them off the park in the second half. That mentality created a panic mentality where, for the last five minutes, players seemed to stop doing the things they were doing before. I think there's a difference to be defensively cautious after going 2-1 up and full on retreat.
The final negative is the replacement for Carroll, or lack of. As baracks put it perfectly earlier, your main man is unavailable, and the gaffer refuses fo pick the two specialist replacements. The same man who said he was happy with what he had.