West Ham vs Bournemouth | PL | 21.2.26 | Predictions & Match Thread

[Mad Ferret]

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WHU: 8/5
Draw: 11/4
Bournemouth: 17/10

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Not sure I'd bring Todibo straight back in.

.........................Hermanson

AWB.....Mavropanos.....Disasi.....Diouf

Bowen.....Fernandes.....Soucek.....Summerville

..........................Taty Costalot

..............................Wilson

[ragingbull]

Kante? He's even worse than Magassa. You clearly didn't watch the abomination of the Burton performance then with those two clowns supposedly being our central midfield.

They are both awful footballers. Kante gets a bit of a pass as we picked him up as a youth for next to nothing. But these idiots shelled out nearly £30 million for Magassa. A total waste of money and ridiculous signing given he is an awful footballer.

We paid 17.3 million for Magassa. He had an OK game yesterday.
But don't let a little thing like facts get in the way, you absolute fucking embarrassment. 

I thought 30 million was a bit much,but 17 million is about the going rate and he has every chance of improving.

[ragingbull]

Hope the rumors are true of Brady leaving, definitely not willingly she will be pushed otherwise why would you give up a million bucks a year for doing nothing turning up on a saturday afternoon for an all inclusive business lunch for 90 minutes easy money.

[fraser]

Kante? He's even worse than Magassa. You clearly didn't watch the abomination of the Burton performance then with those two clowns supposedly being our central midfield.

They are both awful footballers. Kante gets a bit of a pass as we picked him up as a youth for next to nothing. But these idiots shelled out nearly £30 million for Magassa. A total waste of money and ridiculous signing given he is an awful footballer.

We paid 17.3 million for Magassa. He had an OK game yesterday.
But don't let a little thing like facts get in the way, you absolute fucking embarrassment. 

 

Right about loser Lop, right about pathetic Potter, right about Benrahma, right about Paqueta, right about Fernandes, right about Summerville needing an end product. Yeah, how embarrassing!

You forgot Todibo the useless reject who you also think was the key to us winning yesterday.. 

Trying to spin it how you're right about Summerville who will never be more than championship level...

[Come On You Irons]

Kante? He's even worse than Magassa. You clearly didn't watch the abomination of the Burton performance then with those two clowns supposedly being our central midfield.

They are both awful footballers. Kante gets a bit of a pass as we picked him up as a youth for next to nothing. But these idiots shelled out nearly £30 million for Magassa. A total waste of money and ridiculous signing given he is an awful footballer.

We paid 17.3 million for Magassa. He had an OK game yesterday.
But don't let a little thing like facts get in the way, you absolute fucking embarrassment. 

 

 

Right about loser Lop, right about pathetic Potter, right about Benrahma, right about Paqueta, right about Fernandes, right about Summerville needing an end product. Yeah, how embarrassing!

[Vexed]

Kante? He's even worse than Magassa. You clearly didn't watch the abomination of the Burton performance then with those two clowns supposedly being our central midfield.

They are both awful footballers. Kante gets a bit of a pass as we picked him up as a youth for next to nothing. But these idiots shelled out nearly £30 million for Magassa. A total waste of money and ridiculous signing given he is an awful footballer.

We paid 17.3 million for Magassa. He had an OK game yesterday.
But don't let a little thing like facts get in the way, you absolute fucking embarrassment. 

[eusebiovic]

If we do go down it won’t be because of this game. Bournemouth are a good team and in form. We probably do need to get an unexpected win out of the bag somewhere, though.

I'm looking at Villa away.

It sounds like I'm nuts but Kamara, McGinn and Tielemans who are their first choice midfield are all out for the rest of the season. 

Hmmm  

[BRANDED]

Taking this game in itself. 

The cherries were a high energy, speedy direct team with no end product. We defended like warriors in a way that was completely missing for quite a long time. Now, obviously, we needed to score like we have been doing for quite some time and we just didnt have it, which is a real shame as the four points lost in the last two games would have had us right in amongst them. 
get the scoring boots back on and kep at it. The defence could just help is over the line.

[Come On You Irons]

I think our goose is cooked, I mean I don't know who it was towards the end of the game who skied a shot into row z, fuck me at least get the thing on target.

That would be that great signing Magassa.

[Come On You Irons]

Baldy's team selection fucked us there. Selecting the useless Magassa was just throwing away a chance to win.

He should have gone with the logical team I predicted he would have gone for. We would have won if he had done that.

Magassa must never start for us again. Terrible footballer.

You're trying way too hard, so you wanted the negative coward Nuno (your words or close) to go more defensive by picking the Barca reject championship level centre back Todibo (again your words) and this would have won us the game.. Hilarious 
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Bore off, stalky. You or you mate reckon there were 30k there again yesterday?

[stubbo-admin]

Btw, we know in the bigger picture this is situation is on the owners, but our current position is all down to that spineless, fraud Potter, and that cսnt Brady for hiring him. What are these rumours that she is leaving? Fucking hope so.

We are comfortably a top 10 side right now and it's going to be gut wrenching if we go down and to see the squad stripped bare.

 

 

This is pretty much how I feel. We're in a place now where we're competing together toe to toe with the top form sides in the division, but have dug such a big hole that we'll likely go down regardless.

Just have to hope that somehow it's still possible on the last day to win and stay up. 

[Massive Attack]

Kante? He's even worse than Magassa. You clearly didn't watch the abomination of the Burton performance then with those two clowns supposedly being our central midfield.

They are both awful footballers. Kante gets a bit of a pass as we picked him up as a youth for next to nothing. But these idiots shelled out nearly £30 million for Magassa. A total waste of money and ridiculous signing given he is an awful footballer.

Bowen is knackered, hence his down turn in form, but is 100% focussed on getting more knackered to keep us up.  That came from a close relative of his, who I cross paths with from time to time.

He been carrying a knock? He does at times look miles off it (for his usual high standards) and wasn't good at all last night. Not that I expect him to do it all the time anyway. You can't ever blame him at least for busting a bollock for the cause. 

[Manuel]

Sadly the damage was done earlier in the season by both Potter and Nuno. It now all feels a bit closing the door after the carthorse has bolted. To only pick up 11 points out of a possible 48 during that piss poor period since Nuno took over way back in September when he had plenty of time and other opportunities to pick up points in many winnable games was pathetic.

He's finally done better since then starting with Spurs to his more recent credit yet we are still having to beg for other Teams to keep slipping up as we fail to capitalise on good opportunities ourselves when presented them. Today's games are no different when really we should have put the squeeze on all Teams above us anyway. Leeds have managed to dig themselves out and we cannot keep expecting Teams to be as dogshit as Spurs have been all the time trying their level best to go down instead of us. 

It's still not terminal yet but we don't help ourselves when given the chance to apply serious pressure. 

Potter, Nuno and The Clowns, for me. Sounds like an obscure shit music band from the 70's just to rub insult in to injury.

 

The simple reality is if Nuno was here at the beginning of the season we wouldn't be going down. I won't even bother to read you attempting to rebut that simple fact, but off you go anyway.

[threesixty]

Yesterday was a real case in point as to why we are struggling and will likely go down. While we didn't play badly, Bouremouth were below par and the game was there for us to win, but we couldn't do it. Just lacking that quality. Can't blame the ref/var, can't blame anyone else. A side with more about them would have nicked that 1-0.

 

 

Why is it that every time we play a team and they don’t batter us people say things like “they were below par” but never give us credit for making them “below par”? 

it’s how you play against teams that make them play shit isn’t it? In the form table it’s Man U, Chelsea and Bournemouth, then us. We have been competitive in all of these games yet for some reason when we play these teams they are not their usual self, and we should have beat them. Ffs, can’t you see we are doing that to these teams? 

I know we need the points, that’s the reality. But at least give us some credit for making these teams work their arses off to even handle us. 

[Far Cough UKunt]

I think our goose is cooked, I mean I don't know who it was towards the end of the game who skied a shot into row z, fuck me at least get the thing on target.

[Massive Attack]

Sadly the damage was done earlier in the season by both Potter and Nuno. It now all feels a bit closing the door after the carthorse has bolted. To only pick up 11 points out of a possible 48 during that piss poor period since Nuno took over way back in September when he had plenty of time and other opportunities to pick up points in many winnable games was pathetic.

He's finally done better since then starting with Spurs to his more recent credit yet we are still having to beg for other Teams to keep slipping up as we fail to capitalise on good opportunities ourselves when presented them. Today's games are no different when really we should have put the squeeze on all Teams above us anyway. Leeds have managed to dig themselves out and we cannot keep expecting Teams to be as dogshit as Spurs have been all the time trying their level best to go down instead of us. 

It's still not terminal yet but we don't help ourselves when given the chance to apply serious pressure. 

Potter, Nuno and The Clowns, for me. Sounds like an obscure shit music band from the 70's just to rub insult in to injury.
 

[happygilmore]

Btw, we know in the bigger picture this is situation is on the owners, but our current position is all down to that spineless, fraud Potter, and that cսnt Brady for hiring him. What are these rumours that she is leaving? Fucking hope so.

We are comfortably a top 10 side right now and it's going to be gut wrenching if we go down and to see the squad stripped bare.

 

 

Potter was outed as a complete fraud. Never should have been still here at the start of the season. Nuno to his credit has sorted out a lot of the mess, dropping some and getting the best out of others. Mads suddenly looks very assured, helped no doubt by a decent CB pairing in front of him. 
If we go down it's on Potter and the clowns that appointed him and sacked him too late.

[Manuel]

Yesterday was a real case in point as to why we are struggling and will likely go down. While we didn't play badly, Bouremouth were below par and the game was there for us to win, but we couldn't do it. Just lacking that quality. Can't blame the ref/var, can't blame anyone else. A side with more about them would have nicked that 1-0.

[fraser]

Baldy's team selection fucked us there. Selecting the useless Magassa was just throwing away a chance to win.

He should have gone with the logical team I predicted he would have gone for. We would have won if he had done that.

Magassa must never start for us again. Terrible footballer.

You're trying way too hard, so you wanted the negative coward Nuno (your words or close) to go more defensive by picking the Barca reject championship level centre back Todibo (again your words) and this would have won us the game.. Hilarious 
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[Manuel]

Btw, we know in the bigger picture this is situation is on the owners, but our current position is all down to that spineless, fraud Potter, and that cսnt Brady for hiring him. What are these rumours that she is leaving? Fucking hope so.

We are comfortably a top 10 side right now and it's going to be gut wrenching if we go down and to see the squad stripped bare.

Looks like it's gonna happen though, but until it's done it's the tiniest hope that kills. 

We will know a lot more about how Forest are shaping up under the new bloke later, but I fear the worst for sure.

If Palace lose to Wolves they are still in it, as will Spurs if they lose. We're not down in February, but we need to pull some results out the fire, starting from next week.

[fraser]

Btw, we know in the bigger picture this is situation is on the owners, but our current position is all down to that spineless, fraud Potter, and that cսnt Brady for hiring him. What are these rumours that she is leaving? Fucking hope so.

We are comfortably a top 10 side right now and it's going to be gut wrenching if we go down and to see the squad stripped bare.

Looks like it's gonna happen though, but until it's done it's the tiniest hope that kills. 

[Manuel]

Btw, we know in the bigger picture this is situation is on the owners, but our current position is all down to that spineless, fraud Potter, and that cսnt Brady for hiring him. What are these rumours that she is leaving? Fucking hope so.

We are comfortably a top 10 side right now and it's going to be gut wrenching if we go down and to see the squad stripped bare.

[Manuel]

In isolation it's a decent point and we are defending well now, and maybe we haven't done our dough on Mads after all, but we needed a win and now we are looking for Liverpool for some help later, it's beginning to get very tiring.

When you break it down, Summerville aside, we just lack any real quality in the final third. Watching the game it started to become fairly obvious we weren't going to score. Taty tries hard but lacks real quality and Bowen hasn't really stepped up IMO, and I don't think we need to worry about any of the big boys coming in for the Portugeezer anytime soon.

Couldn't fault Nuno's game plan or his subs.

Not looking good, is it.

[fraser]

Spot on Any Old, other clubs down the bottom have the courage to really go for the jugular and have reaped the rewards, Sadly I think Nuno will take us down with his over- cautious approach 

If the other clubs down the bottom have the bollocks to go for the wins and are reaping more rewards than us can you explain how we while playing 3 of the top 4 form teams over the last 6 games have more points than all those teams down the bottom over those last 6 games? 

[DukeofDevo]

 

Wow, he has been running his socks off and had a great game tbf

 

 

 

When you’re sat in row Z and the ball hits your head that’s Magassa!
Needs to hit the target from 20yds!

You can't define his match performance down to that shot. Get a grip ffs

I know! He’s a good addition to our midfield and has some engine on him! Thought I’d add a bit of levity to the day with an old Bobby Zamora song.Which was also unwarranted I might add!

[Electric Retro-pants]

Think this game was crying out for someone like Fearon to come on to give some real attacking pace nd fst passing, especially through the middle.
Felt like we dawdled a fair bit in the passing compared with previous, do think the nerves were showing with a lot of snatched passes.