‚ö? Bristol City v West Ham - Official Match Thread

[charleyfarley]

"V Ashton Gate Stadium 16th Jan 19:45 GMT NO VAR Darren England: (3) - 19 0 O‚ÄôLeary, Tanner, Vyner, Dickie, McCrorie, Williams, James ¬©, Pring, Gardner-Hickman, Mehmeti, Conway Subs: Bajic (GK), Knight-Lebel, Roberts, Knight, Nelson, Cornick, King, Bell, Wells Fabia?Ñski, Coufal, Mavropanos, Zouma ¬©, Cresswell, Emerson, Souƒçek, Ward-Prowse, Benrahma, Cornet, Ings Subs: Areola (GK), Anang (GK), Johnson, Ogbonna, Casey, Mubama, Marshall, Scarles Bristol City 16/5: Draw 13/5: West Ham 17/20"

[Hammer and Pickle]

"Only way we should be losing this is by failing to use our advantage in basic football skills. if Moyes fails to get this out of the players to win, what is the point of having him as manager?"

[solidbond]

"Even weaker line up than expected, no Alvarez or Fornals. 3-4-3"

[solidbond]

"Even weaker line up than expected, no Alvarez or Fornals. 3-4-3"

[Yorkammer]

More likely Coufal and Emerson as wingbacks

[solidbond]

Billy jennings:I think Emerson will be the flying wing back

[BillyJenningsBoots]

Back 3 with Coufal and Cressers as flying wingbacks?????

[Elpojohn]

"3-1 West Ham, Marshall to score on his debut."

[Slim Shady]

"Back 5, respect the Championship"

[Elpojohn]

"Tonight,s Line up is as follows, West Ham United: Fabia?Ñski, Coufal, Mavropanos, Zouma ¬©, Cresswell, Emerson, Souƒçek, Ward-Prowse, Benrahma, Cornet, Ings Subs: Areola (GK), Anang (GK), Johnson, Ogbonna, Casey, Mubama, Marshall, Scarles Referee: Darren England"

[Slim Shady]

No Alverez

[fraser]

Chim BBC1

[Lato]

It's on BBC 1 and I player.

[chim chim cha boo]

"IIs this on the telly or on a stream, does anyone know? I think we'll lose this personally. It says something that we've been pretty lucky with injuries this past couple of seasons, played a couple of teams who's tactics have been to kick our best, most creative players out of the game and it worked. I expect more of the same tonight. You can hear Manning in the dressing room now, 'a freezing cold Tuesday night in a proper ground with baying supporters smelling blood? Let's get stuck into those pampered cunts early doors' *or insert any trite barely articulate football manager nonsense. I'll be controversial here but has anyone else noticed how reluctant JWP is to make any kind of tackle? Good player but a bit of a poof when it comes to rolling your sleeves up and taking one for the team.Alvarez and Tommy have got their work cut out for them tonight."

[Sir Alf]

"winning the FA cup does gain qualification to the Europa league so you would think it would be taken more seriously than the Carabou thing? But Moyes approach of using a 14 man squad ( not arrempting to develop a larger one ) means he is like the stereotypical man unable to multi task :-). I reckon he is focused on the league as he sees that as our best chance of European football again be it the Europa or Conference. Achieve that and he strengthens his hand with Sullivan and almost certainly gets his contract renewed. So no surprise if we are dumped out tonight imo and thus his team selection will be no surprise to 99% of the fan base. Formals, Benrahma and Ings will start for Bowen, Kudus and Paqueta. Slow and old is the way :-( Ings was bigged up by Moyes for his 20 min cameo against Bristol so obviously he will start instead of Mubama Bet ur house on it :-("

[RM10]

I’m sure they will enjoy the trip side effect

[Takashi Miike]

"the biggest worry was seeing the cone collector mckinlay doing the press conference, I smell another thrown game from the prehistoric jock twat"

[side effect]

Best of luck to the people stupid enough to go tonight.

[Steady]

Just got 80/1 for West Ham to win 3-1 and Ings to score first ….. don’t laugh

[Hammer and Pickle]

Playing for a clean sheet while letting them have the freedom of midfield and hoping to score off a set piece. Can‚Äôt wait ?ü§Ø

[Nutsin]

"2-0 win, in a typical scrappy F A Cup tie. Another clean sheet and another win on the road. Just hope we don’t pick up any more injuries."

[Side of Ham]

"Yep, if you think about it Ward-Prowse is our only chance of a bit of magic in the midfield and Alvarez will be busy. If they can get a stranglehold on the midfield battle then maybe those coming in can shine alongside any good work they both do. Otherwise settle in for some Moyesball and watching Bristol City play the football."

[Sir Alf]

"One problem we had last game was that they tended to an extra man in midfield as they seem to try to overload that area as much as possible. It started to be effective second half as they began to get the second ball and deny us space to play thru to the forwards or down the side with even Emerson hardly getting forward. Obviously losing Paqueta played a part too. But when you have a midfield shorn of Paqueta and containing Soucek ( the slowest Prem midfielder of the past 10-15 years ) you are gonna struggle to create much from open play and forwards can be starved of service. He should play Cornet at some point but don’t expect to see him to 75th minute. He’s the best in terms of control passing and pace we have although obviously not fully match fit having only played 120 mins this season , hardly any games last season and any game he does appear in it as a sub and not the Premiership. We will be relying heavily again on Alvarez and JWP in the middle against their 4 or 5 in there. Fornals and Soucek run about a lot but off the pace and Benny doesn’t contribute much winning the ball or pressing either. Our best hope is to not concede and get one from a set piece. Hence Moyesball will line the order of the day"

[violator]

"A scrappy 1-1, and through on penalties"

[violator]

"A scrappy 1-1, and through on penalties"

[Manuel]

"Ludo - Let's see later son, but we won't be starting with both kids up top, clearly Ings will start, so maybe we will have to want until another time to find out if you are on to something or not with the kids up top. Funny enough, despite Antonio generally being deplored on here we could use him now had he not slipped at Rush Green, ffs."