West Ham vs Ipswich Town (Home) | 5.10.24 | Match Thread

[stubbo-admin]

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Odds:
West Ham: 5/6
Draw: 14/5
Ipswich: 16/5 

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[RootsRadical]

Who shall I slag off next?

[Coffee one sugar]

Oh yes! Great pass from Phillips.

Are you watching Brentford?

[nychammer]

Cheers Kalvin


 

nice assist more effective for us today than all last season

[Any Old Iron]

Cheers Kalvin
 

[goose]

Oh ffs! Soucek and Antonio again!

 

 

 

Took 1min to make you look a dick.

[Hammer and Pickle]

Leat Tony Gale isn’t a total cսnt like Tony Cottee

[nychammer]

fucking yes!!  Antonio 1-0 - just what we needed

Came from Philips giving it away in midfield! 

[RootsRadical]

Fulkrug not even fit enough for the bench when the club said he was close to a return 2 weeks ago.
Antonio starts again despite doing less than nothing to earn it.

[Keep dreaming]

Not exactly what i would have seen, but let's hope Løpe finally gets it right and we get a win

[goose]

This isn’t an easy game. 
Ipswich have drawn away at Brighton and home with Villa. You need to be well organised to get those results.

it will be tight and they’ll fancy this game as much as we do.

[Mex Martillo]

Onsideman, I'd have liked to see some changes as well. It's a good test, should be an easier game than all the games we've played and  Lopetegui has settled on a starting lineup so we can expect to see a better team performance.
We'll see.

[threesixty]

 I feel like he has drawn the opposite conclusion to what most of the fans have been thinking for the last few years. It's basically a Moyes team that plays higher up the pitch. He expects the fluidity in midfield to just happen somehow but he's not changing the personnel to do that. So he's got to work pretty hard to coach that in or he's just doing what we've done for years here.

He should be worried that he is relying on Soucek to score goals because thats not his job. The forwards are meant to do that and his system isnt making that happen.

I'm not worrying just yet because I think he's a smart man and will work it out for himself.
None of this should matter against Ipswich. But if we struggle to get a result here it will indicate he isnt really solving any of his problems.

 

[nychammer]

today will be more of a true barometer of how we will fare this season. We all know that Ipswich at home will be thought of as a home banker for most top half teams, but they've taken 4 points in 4 draws, impressively including against Villa and Brighton. Theyve only lost to City and 

This will be FAR from a cake walk, I think it will be a close and competitive game. A well drilled outfit against a squad full of talent that is still figuring out how to play as a team.

1-1

[onsideman]

I don't get it?

Obviously I hope they gel, but this starting 11 was so awful at Brentford that we were very lucky to only be 1 down at half time when he felt it necessary to make 2 changes

[Mex Martillo]

Should be ok if they don't conceded a goal in first few minutes.

[kylay]

Disappointed with Antonio starting, but this lineup should still have no problem with Ipswich. That is if this game weren't a very unwanted early pressure cooker.

[Hammer and Pickle]

Oh ffs! Soucek and Antonio again!

[goose]

I thought we were much better at Brentford last week, so I see the logic in remaining unchanged,

[Takashi Miike]

Soucek + ten others. Let's do the timewarp agaaaaiiiinn

[stubbo-admin]

Reasonable selection. At least there is some consistency there.

Can nit pick over a couple of spots at the moment of course. Biggest disappointment for me is it means Kudus will be on the left side again.

[onsideman]

No Alvarez. It's fair cause we started off really well with that line up last week.. 



 

 

 

Indeed.

 

What's that famed definition of madness again?

[goose]

Second week in a row Summerville can feel hard done by.

[Elpojohn]

West Ham United: Areola, Wan-Bissaka, Todibo, Kilman, Emerson, Rodríguez, Paquetá, Souček, Bowen ©, Kudus, Antonio
Subs: Fabiański (GK), Cresswell, Coufal, Mavropanos, Álvarez, Soler, Luis Guilherme, Summerville, Ings Referee: Anthony Taylor

[fraser]

No Alvarez. It's fair cause we started off really well with that line up last week.. 

 

[onsideman]

Antonio starting again.
​No Summerville
Bloke's a moron