‚ö? West Ham v Arsenal - Official Match Thread

[charleyfarley]

". ... V London Stadium Wed 1st Nov 19:30GMT VAR xxxx Simon Hooper: (5) - 23 2 Fabia?Ñski ¬©, Coufal, Mavropanos, Aguerd, Emerson, Souƒçek, ?Ålvarez, Paquet?°, Kudus, Benrahma, Bowen Subs: Areola (GK), Cresswell, Ogbonna, Kehrer, Ward-Prowse, Fornals, Cornet, Ings, Antonio Ramsdale, White, Kiwior, Gabriel, Zinchenko, Jorginho ¬©, Fabio Viera, Havertz, Nelson, Trossard, Nketiah Subs: Hein (GK), Saliba, C?©dric Soares, Tomiyasu, Elneny, Rice, Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli West Ham 23/10 : Draw 23/10: Arsenal 23/20 . ."

[lowlife]

"BBC sport article headlines; “Superb Newcastle knock holders Manchester United out of EFL Cup” “West Ham dump below-par Arsenal out of EFL Cup” No reference to how good we were in the second half, and the majority of the report is about Arsenal. Laughable."

[Pagey]

"That was a fantastic second half and desperately needed after the last three games. Arsenal weren’t at it tonight and rested a few, but we worked so hard and fully deserved it. There were a few stand out performances but Kudus was brilliant. Great on the ball and he ran his socks off tonight. The first touch for his goal was sublime - even though the ridiculously bias Alan Smith called it fortunate."

[Grumpster]

When are these cunts gonna do the draw? Some of us have to get up at 5!!

[Meerkat]

"Didn’t see the game , but was following on a thread . Seems like first half was dire . But we changed our manager at half time . Didn’t we ….. there’s no other logical explanation for what followed ."

[Burnhammeronsea]

I'm staying up until midnight to see our post match report and interview. Wtf are Sky playing at? It's as if our match didn't go ahead.

[daveyg]

"Don't really know what to make of that apart from we won Dire first half, 1-0 up. Lucky own goal. Good attacking start to the 2nd half. One good finish,one good strike aided by a deflection. Arsenal big guns didn't make a difference. Resolute defence and the back 4 played like one. Ah well quaternary final then. Port Vale at home,expect Liverpool to get them though"

[Hammer and Pickle]

Emerson was bloody good tonight

[The Fonz]

Emerson is so important to how we play. Brings out the best in Pacqueta and is runs with the ball better than most of our forward players. Kudus is some player SHOULD HAVE SIGNED FOR A BIG CLUB. GET IN YOU BEAUTIES

[Helmut Shown]

I thought Emerson was good tonight. I was expecting Saka to be all over him when he came on but he played him intelligently and when he gets forward his passing is a lot more telling than Cresswell ever was. Alvarez has given us an umbrella in front of the defence a lot of positional play that prevents through balls. Kudus worked well down the right and his interplay with Bowen so much better than Antonio. He was a handful and caused their defence a lot of headaches.

[Helmut Shown]

I thought Emerson was good tonight. I was expecting Saka to be all over him when he came on but he played him intelligently and when he gets forward his passing is a lot more telling than Cresswell ever was. Alvarez has given us an umbrella in front of the defence a lot of positional play that prevents through balls. Kudus worked well down the right and his interplay with Bowen so much better than Antonio. He was a handful and caused their defence a lot of headaches.

[RM10]

Fuck the arsenal!

[Jaan Kenbrovin]

"That was a better performance but we rode our luck, like the Chelsea and Brighton games. We showed moments of quality, but for the most part were crap with possession. The difference was the teams pace on and off the ball caused Arsenal problems. Hopefully Moyes isn't stupid enough to change the top 4 attacking players. Bowen is our best option up top and Kudus and Paqueta are too good to shift out to other areas to accomodate Soucek and Antonio."

[Jasnik]

Anyone see how Bowen got cut on the eye ... seemed to come from nowhere

[OneAll]

"was giving my mate a bit of stick after , he said they dont care about that cup and we will always be a small club lol , i said to him your not going to win the league , your not going to get any where near the champions league so what are you actually playing for lol ? second place?"

[Tomshardware]

"Excellent performance all round, hopefully we can kick on from here."

[Hammer and Pickle]

Interesting. I think Moyes made a dressing room apology to get that out of the lads.

[Steady]

Looked like Bowen pretty much blanked Rice after the match

[Sydney_Iron]

"Arsenal fans such a delusional lot! On a forum with a lot of them posting. Before the game it was all routine win, West Hsm are shit, we got there best player. At FT it’s, not bothered, it’s a cup hardly worth winning, the club, players and Arteta have bigger and better things to play for, obviously holding themselves back for the title chase and CL. Arrogant fuck wits! COYI"

[CroHammer]

That’s the best Antonio has played all season

[zebthecat]

Fucking excellent result. This has made me happy.

[OneAll]

any chance the own goal will be given to bowen? and him to score first and 3-1 paying around 1700 ffs

[Takashi Miike]

"brilliant performance from everyone tonight, but some of the interplay between bowen, paqueta and kudus was exceptional. performances like that are why I moan, they're capable of that and better every week. I just hope we now get a decent draw in the QF"

[Alfs]

"Port Vale next, please."

[zico]

"Brilliant second half, actually looked like a team. Everyone played well but as said below special mention to Coufal who looked back to his best. Kudus looks a player with one hell of an engine."

[Burnhammeronsea]

Sky can sticking up their arae. Just cut our post match off maybe as Arsenal are embarrassed. Seeing Mancs getting smashed though is OK.