‚ö? West Ham v Burnley- Official Match Thread

[charleyfarley]

". ........... V London Stadium 10th Mar 14:00 GMT VAR Andrew Madley Darren England (6) - 32 0 Areola, Coufal, Mavropanos, Aguerd, Cresswell, Phillips, Souƒçek ¬©, Ward-Prowse, Paquet?°, Kudus, Bowen Subs: Fabia?Ñski (GK), Johnson, Ogbonna, Zouma, ?Ålvarez, Earthy, Ings, Antonio, Mubama Trafford, Assignon, O'Shea, Est?®ve, Taylor, Berge, Cullen ¬©, Bruun Larsen, Vitinho, Odobert, Fofana Subs: Muric (GK), Cork, Gudmundsson, Brownhill, Rodriguez, Manuel, Amdouni, Tr?©sor, Delcroix West Ham 4/6: Draw 3/1: Burnley 7/2 ."

[threesixty]

"I have faith.. faith that even Moyes would not see Thursday as a day to pick vindictive pettiness over reality! We need to over power Freiburg from the start and that means all out attack at home. There's no room for players that cant do that. Even if he wants to keep Soucek he cant have JWP as well. One or the other has to be dropped. If it were me I drop both and play Antonio and Ings from the start. Right JWP can only do corners (which he does exactly the same every time and therefore ar easy to defend against). Anyone can do decent corners surely? I'd pair Zouma or Ogbonna, with Mav and Aguerd because I think Zouma / Ogbonna generally read the game better but all our defenders have clangers in them apart from Emerson. ------------------Areola ------------ Coufal --- Zouma - Aguerd - Emerson -----------------Alvarez----------- ------------ Kudus Ings----------- Bowen - Antonio - Paqueta"

[Sir Alf]

"Tend to agree Vexed. No Emerson is a big loss and watch him put Zouma back in for Mavropanos because its about showing his choice of players is better than Steidtens. The Greek has been solid and nullified a lot of attacks, made some decent clearances and won everything in the air. But 3 or 4 bad passes out from the back undrrmined the good work and he needs to work on that. Hes pretty quick for a big bloke but Moyes will get his transfer Aguerd back in and his transfer Zouma in. Soucek will play and we have to hope he has a 1 in 5 game performance. He will start with Bowen central again. Cresswell will get roasted by that Japanese looking fella who is auick and tricky Tbh, highly unlikely we will win the Europa as there are some decent teams left ( Roma etc ) and Liverpool but going out to Freiberg would be largely due to Moyesball the embodiment of “not having a go”"

[simon.s]

"I still think we’ll go through Thursday, but given some of performances lately, I’m not sure we’ll go much further. Ings can score goals, who knew? Well probably everyone except Moyes, and he signed him. On another day he has a hat-trick so he has to feature this week. We’ll have to start straight on the front foot though."

[JayeMPee]

Boycie - and every striker!!! A tactical idiot.

[Vexed]

"We're going out of the Europa on Thursday, I'll tell you that now. As soon as we got the draw it was obvious that Moyes' completely unfounded arrogance would came racing to the surface and we'd get tactically mugged off by them. I expect the same on Thursday, but we'll get a draw."

[Manuel]

"A big problem we have is that Soucek, Phillips and JWP are all SHIT, and Moyes is always going to play at least two of them, so we're on the back foot from the off. The cսnt has a lot of thinking to do 'coz he needs to get it right on Thursday."

[Iron Duke]

"With the handball at the end, it looked like it came off Berge’s right hand onto his left hand. But I only saw it from one angle. I’m sure that VAR checked all the available angles like they always do. If it did come off his head, it was more of a directed header than a ricochet. But apparently it didn’t even warrant discussion from the cunts on the telly. Liverpool were robbed and that’s all you need to know. Cunts!"

[Pedro]

Sure others have said but hopefully this shows how we should start games. Adding Antonio to the 3 of Bowen / kudus and Paq gives us much better balance. Two holding midfield players. Have to start the same on Thursday.

[wansteadman]

"I'm sure that we have one of the worst records for shots conceded, Burnley could easily have 4 or 5 goals yesterday and this is against a team that Moyes sets up not to concede. Pundits seem to think Moyes is some sort of defensive genius when his tactics work but getting ten behind the ball against teams like Burnley doesn't make you a defensive genius it's makes you look like a clueless cսnt"

[Fauxstralian]

Fofana gets lucky for the first goal as he plays a 1-2 off Aguerds shins and the ball falls to him Phillips is there but stops and puts his hands up in the air as he lets him walk past him Great strike but Phillips should have stood in front of him He is and continues to be awful The difference with Alvarez on was staggering

[Rossal]

"Moyes has some cheek moaning about the fans being quiet That first half we just sat there watching Burnley piss the ball around and our lot not get near them. It was embarrassing. His tactics are an absolute joke at home to one of worst sides in the league. JWP was dreadful, Soucek doesnt contribute anything. I didnt actually think Phillips was that bad first half, although Alvarez was good when he came on. Kudus looks a little bit off form lately. I think there is a case to start Ings in the 10 on thurs with JWP dropped"

[british is best]

I watched a video on YouTube with Gonzo and his old man . Straight after the Freiberg game . And his dad nailed it completely when he said we always play with one less attacker than we should be . It Moyes thinks our defensive players are better than our attacking ones . He's even more incompetent than our supporters think .

[british is best]

The fixtures coming up are no harder than our December ones . And we came out 2nd in the form table that month. Problem is the players look as pissed off with Moyesball as the vast majority of supporters . .

[fraser]

Didn't the ball come off his own head? If so I think the rule is if it hits your hand deflected off another part of your body it isn't handball.

[Jasnik]

Stupid question that was a handball at the end right? As to me it seemed to get ignored did var even check it.

[Manuel]

"If there are any positives to come from this shit show then I think the pent up anger and frustration, plus Antonio and Ings looking good, will see us come out on Thursday and possibly blitz the Eric's. With tougher league fixtures now I think we can forget about Europe via the league."

[lowlife]

"Agreed Vexed - they talk about it at length in the Liverpool Manchester City game, but no mention of the clear one against us. Also - Ings seemed genuinely emotional in that short interview. I still reckon he’s a good striker, just that moyes has fucked him by not playing to his strengths. He’s also doing the same with JWP that he did with Fornals. Playing him out of position and then subbing him off. Won’t be long before he’s not starting. Sincerely hope moyes goes this summer."

[lowlife]

"Agreed Vexed - they talk about it at length in the Liverpool Manchester City game, but no mention of the clear one against us. Also - Ings seemed genuinely emotional in that short interview. I still reckon he’s a good striker, just that moyes has fucked him by not playing to his strengths. He’s also doing the same with JWP that he did with Fornals. Playing him out of position and then subbing him off. Won’t be long before he’s not starting. Sincerely hope moyes goes this summer."

[62Hammer]

"2-0 down to the bottom team in the Premiership, it doesn't take a tactical genius to work out we have to attack more in the second half. Everyone in the stadium would have made the changes Moyes made (but from the start). Yet again, he has to be dragged kicking and screaming into playing this way."

[Vexed]

"Moyes is a cսnt and there's just no getting round that and dying in a fucking fire is probably too good for him, this we know. But how the fucking hell have we been denied two pens in consecutive games for the stoniest of stonewall fucking handballs you'll ever fucking see? Am I losing my fucking mind or something? They didn't even mention it on motd."

[lowlife]

JWP started the season really well but has declined massively in the last few months. I don’t believe he has suddenly become a bad player.

[Any Old Iron]

Moyes blaming our midweek exertions on that appalling 1st half then tries to take credit for putting Ings on. What the cսnt won‚Äôt do is take blame for starting JWP and Phillips. Two dm‚Äôs who are both negative and fucking useless.

[J.Riddle]

"uxstralian 10:30 Sun Mar 10 Re: ‚ö? West Ham v Burnley- Official Match Thread - Preview Jetlagged? Germany to London is about 2 hours ha ha ha Hee hee it was all going so well then I got a bit carried away with the Jetlagged bit, still reeled plenty in that net ?üòÇ ?üòÇ"

[smartypants]

"100% truth. My 10 year old son was wearing his alverez shirt, as I called him alverez creswell turned around and started chatting, it was a bizarre encounter but he is obviously a very decent fella and he made a fuss of my son who you could of knocked over with a feather. My Mrs and daughter missed it, only to see creswell stick his thumb up to us as we left in the car"

[frank_booth]

"I know Cresswell is loaded, but I I would have taken him for an Aldi or Asda man. Is that the truth or a load of bullshit?"