West Ham vs Crystal Palace | PL | 18.1.25 | Predictions and Match Thread

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Match Centre:

Odds:
West Ham: 9/5
Draw: 5/2
Crystal Palace: 17/10

Pre-Match Press Conference:
Official Press Conference

Tactical Preview: 
Babbling Irons

Watch-along:
Hammers Chat Watchalong

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[Keep dreaming]

Were the likes of Kehrer and Fornals really worse than Rodriguez?

Absolutely not. Rodriguez is a fucking joke

[zico]

Were the likes of Kehrer and Fornals really worse than Rodriguez?

[nychammer]

Moyes spent something like £450m, Lopetegui spent over £100m, how can our squad be this shit?

It’s 18th January today? We should have been sorting this mess out January 1st

 

 

criminal isnt it, and yes you would hope we've been at least scouting out players in positions where we are short, could we have FFP issues in making signings given what we spent?

[Mad Ferret]

Absolutely shocking. Gotta be some question marks on Potter with that line up.

[Leonard Hatred]

Passing is awful, back to our worst it seems. Don't like these defensive setups.

 

 

That's the spirit KD, stay positive as always.

[Keep dreaming]

My God, said it before. Rodriguez, Soucek and Alvarez in midfield is self harming 

[Keep dreaming]

And Soler before Cresswell 

[David LE]

Should have given Irving a go instead of Rodriguez, imo.

[Keep dreaming]

Passing is awful, back to our worst it seems. Don't like these defensive setups.

[goose]

Moyes spent something like £450m, Lopetegui spent over £100m, how can our squad be this shit?

It’s 18th January today? We should have been sorting this mess out January 1st

[zico]

Good to see Kudus up top but he has to be up near the centre backs as it gives an out ball over the top to chase.

[nychammer]

Tough this - if were going to get anything here we will have to be clinical in taking the chances we do get. So much work for Potter to do with the squad he has inherited and injurues and I certainly wont dig him out if we lose

[Texas Iron]

No Chance…

WTF lineup…???

[Takashi Miike]

Gonna give him the benefit of the doubt.. Till u see how we go. Maybe he thinks tye best way to play against them is with wingbacks and there isn't really anyone else other than Cresswell 

Emerson will be the wingback, Cresswell inside. 

Obviously... We we hope it's obvious..

That's what I meant nobody else for cb

 

 

I'd rather Casey start the game, I don't give a shit how old he is and his legs haven't gone

[zico]

At least he is playing them on their stronger side by the looks of it.  Yeah sure we need an upgrade on Cress but at least he is a left sided defender rather than shoe horning a right footer in there, but by god we need some reinforcements.

[fraser]

Paqueta pulled up in the warm up apparently 

[the exile]

FMOB! That is such a defensive lineup, only two forwards and I absolutely hated watching Cresswell in a back three under Moyes. I'm going to admit that Potter knows better than me, but I hate the look of that.

[kylay]

5 defenders, 2 defensive mids, and half our bench are kids. Halfway through the window with no sniff of a deal. Contrary to my predication last game, Potter did manage to pull a rabbit out of the hat.

Irons!
 

[Ron Eff]

We probably could have done with Aguerd now? Potter will make him look like Baresi

 

 

It’s a reasonable point, even if in jest. I often thought he would be a good left back, and left in back three probably suited him more than a centre back pairing as well, which is where he could not get away with lapses in concentration. 

[Sir Alf]

Bare bones of our arse. Squad is embarassingly weak  but with 4 or so injuries looks “scorched earth” level quality.  Suppose Potter has to innovate and has come up with this. As mentioned, looking for creativity from wing backs?  Once again best to look at leveks of effort, closing down / pressing and running. If they are good we can be encouraged whatever the result because, to repeat, we have a appallingly poor squad for the money spent over the last few windows.

 

[Mad Ferret]

Maybe Sutton’s prediction wasn’t so shocking?

[Manuel]

We probably could have done with Aguerd now? Potter will make him look like Baresi

[fraser]

The meltdown on this site would have been most entertaining if Moyes had started a game with this line up.

 

 

And rightly so, but Potter has little other option and may have a good plan. If it's shit then he does it again and again like Moyes then he will also get shit because of it. 

[Manuel]

The meltdown on this site would have been most entertaining if Moyes had started a game with this line up.

 

 

 

 

Yep, but that's football fans for you, hypocritical and fickle. That said, I take the point about GP getting the benefit of the doubt, as he is more tactical than the fraud and gollom.

Will be keen to see if Rodders is of any use at all, wasn't he meant to be going to Betis? 

[Ron Eff]

The meltdown on this site would have been most entertaining if Moyes had started a game with this line up.

 

 

Completely different circumstances. This is a new manager with a clean slate, and a fuck load of injuries. He’s done nothing to be doubted, yet. Moyes on the other hand was negative no matter the opposition, and by the end, had a card well and truly marked.