Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread

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Well after the disaster of Monday at Brentford, the thought of more West Ham in the same week is enough to put anyone in a bad mood.  The 'pros' always talk about wanting to get bad games out of their system quickly, and this gives them that opportunity, but also sets up a horrible start to the weekend for the rest of us!

Teamwise, Mavro is out with what looked a nasty hamstring injury.  Fullkrug is still broken, and Earthy remains unfit.  Otherwise the rest of the squad are fit from a health perspective....maybe less so from a 'wear the shirt' angle.

Nuno's logic for his inverted fullbacks it's been revealed was to try and counter Brentford's inverted wing thread, by showing them onto the defender's strong foot...the less said about the success of that the better.  And it struggles to explain Irving and Soucek in the pivot, beyond maybe 'they're both tall'.

Anyway, hopefully that's the last of the experimentation and we can revert to what at least appears a bit less shit.  Wouldn't surprise me to see him go with a back 5 in this game though (and what I'll assume for my predicted XI).

Predicted lineup:

Areola

Wan Bissaka    Kilman     Igor   
Summerville                                            Diouf
Magassa Fernandes Paqueta

Soucek

Bowen

Subs: Hermansen, KWP, Todibo, Scarles, Potts, Irving, Guilherme, Wilson, Marshall

The squad is now a real quandary.  We don't have a good CB pairing...Todibo looks hopeless, Kilman and Igor both left footed, with one an unknown and the other weak as the senior CB.  Mavro was signed to be 3rd choice, but he's suddenly the most important man in the back line...a problem in itself.

Summerville is a must have...the only true pace in the side so leaving him out can't be compromised.  If 3 at the back and 3-4-3 was viable, not a problem....but once again we don't have a midfield with a logical two-man pairing.  Add in that Bwoen and Soucek are the only goals, and Paqueta is the only real 'vision' and we are in a bad place with a squad that don't work in combination.

So will he gamble on a bad back two, an untried midfield pair, or leave out one of the 'key' players in Soucek, Bowen, Paqueta, and Summerville.

And as for playing a real striker....

Predicted Score: Leeds 2 : 0 West Ham.

Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst.

COYI!

[twoleftfeet]

Fernandes - Potts - Megassa

That’s how we should have started the game with Wilson up top.

[goose]

Fucking hell Todibo you utter prick.

[onsideman]

Has Todibo really had an International cap?

[Massive Attack]

Do fuck off Todibo!

[honky cat]

Superb header

[Keep dreaming]

Absolutely disgraceful Nunothing chucking away 2 back to back important 6 pointers against 2 relegation rivals like that. Leeds are well away from us now. Fucking joke.

 

 

And how did he do that Massive?

[goose]

Blimey we’ve actually scored 

[RootsRadical]

Fernandes scores, too little too late probably.

[Massive Attack]

Well done Fernandes nice little header that! Go f9r another West Ham! Is it too little, too late..

[El Scorchio]

Any cսnt that can't get a corner past the first man should be made to walk home. 

 

 

If he made Soucek and Irving walk home with any luck they'd still be on the A1 by the time the season is over and they won't get picked again,

[RootsRadical]

When i used to follow west ham around the country, sometimes the worst nights were the best ones, but fuck me you cant see any good side to being up there tonight in this weather watching nunos wacky backy dogshit.

 

 

Yeh but at least Sullivan will see a positive in lower rent in the Championship.

[Massive Attack]

Absolutely disgraceful Nunothing chucking away 2 back to back important 6 pointers against 2 relegation rivals like that. Leeds are well away from us now. Fucking joke.

[bell]

Any cսnt that can't get a corner past the first man should be made to walk home. 

[El Scorchio]

We're not playing with half as much urgency as we ought to.

This lot have been there for the taking by a halfway competent side. Second worst team we have played this season and Nuno gifted them three points with that ridiculous starting line up. I'm convinced this was winnable if he'd have started Wilson Fernandes and Potts instead of Scarles Soucek and Irving.

[Nutsin]

Been out with the wife for our anniversary so not seen any of it until now.  How shit are we?  Im guessing "very"

We are about 5 levels below shit

[goose]

You see the difference it makes when you have defenders who actually attack the ball?

we are so easy to defend against.

[Massive Attack]

When i used to follow west ham around the country, sometimes the worst nights were the best ones, but fuck me you cant see any good side to being up there tonight in this weather watching nunos wacky backy dogshit.

Spare a thought and say a prayer for poor old Simons who's made to suffer this.

[Massive Attack]

Get Fernandes off set pieces ffs!

[El Scorchio]

This ref is a fucking joke. That's so petty

[honky cat]

When i used to follow west ham around the country, sometimes the worst nights were the best ones, but fuck me you cant see any good side to being up there tonight in this weather watching nunos wacky backy dogshit.

[Massive Attack]

Potts works it well to Fernandes and he kicks it right out of play!

[El Scorchio]

Potts has already touched the ball half as much as Soucek did

[claret on my shirt]

Amazing sub, fuck off Nuno

[El Scorchio]

Did Paqueta refuse to come off?

If so, GOOD.

[goose]

I’m not sure what’s more embarrassing, our defending or our attacking.