West Ham vs Wolves | El Sackico | Predictions, Line-up, and Match Thread

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We'll give this as go as a single thread this time and see what preference is:


Match Centre:

Odds:

West Ham: 19/20

Draw: 29/10

Wolves: 3/1


Pre-Match Press Conference:

https://www.youtube.com/live/HSpgiiXnx1M

Tactical Preview: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sbCANrPY8M


Watch-along:

https://www.youtube.com/live/gUHRhZoBgYI


Streams:


https://sporthd.live/match/slg-onl-West ... q5XimsdogT


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[Massive Attack]

Haha serves the dickhead right for acting the right cսnt after Bowen tried to shake his hand after getting beat..

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.expr ... -oneil/amp

Irony wasn't lost on me either watching Todibo trying to play peacemaker!

[Justin P]

No

[Any Old Iron]

How the fuck is Fulkrug expected to get match fit if he’s not playing any matches? 
it’s time for him to start and show what he can do. If he runs out puff then hook him. It’s not complicated.

[honky cat]

2-1 soucek late winner (header)
or it could be a right old bumming
​​​​so dont put any bets on as i havent got the score right in 40 odd years 
honky x 

 

 

I sort of got it right. Have i won something ? 

[Sir Alf]

Stavros did play well but the concern is always that there will be at one or two ricketts. A dangling leg in the box or he lets an attacker get the wrong side of him which he tries to recover from using his arms or flattens them or simply getting caught out of position for pace.  There could be a very good player but he just seems to lack that focus or concentration for 90 mins and does not read the game well enough.  With good coaching he could potentially erradicate these moments from his game but currently they occur pretty much every game he plays.  

He will start ahead of Todibo who I believe is the far superior player and will prove it over time  as he has had a few “moments” but his mitigation is he has struggled for 100% fitness and is adjusting to the intensity and physicality of the Premiership.  

[Takashi Miike]

[Full Claret Jacket]

I thought Mavropanos was one of our best players. We were exposed defensively several times and he covered, mopped up and held up attacks. Kilman has been disappointing recently. I'm not seeing somebody who makes good decisions or is commanding in any way. Certainly not earning his high price tag. The fact we set up in ways that leaves us prone to counter attacks means we have to have better players with more pace to get back. 
Other than that there were some average performances, we didn't threaten enough and the short corners were winding me up as we didn't get the ball into the box dithered or ended up wasting the opportunity. Bowen finished well and drove us forward. Summerville was lively if somewhat lightweight. A lot of the time though it was pointless sideways and backwards passing ending up with a goalie hoof. 

[Massive Attack]

Twats (3 of them) in the seats behind me last night were complaining for most of the first half that Fulkrug wasn’t starting, and that he must be ‘match fit’ if he’s on the bench so couldn’t see why he wasn’t starting.

 Not a brain cell between them. Not one.

They're on here as well by the looks of it. 

[lowlife]

Twats (3 of them) in the seats behind me last night were complaining for most of the first half that Fulkrug wasn’t starting, and that he must be ‘match fit’ if he’s on the bench so couldn’t see why he wasn’t starting.

 Not a brain cell between them. Not one.

[Massive Attack]

As for trying to play Bowen central in the absence of an Antonio (who isn’t a proper number 9 anyway), that’s another similarity between Moyes and this twat that makes anyone who really follows our fortunes cringe. But this time it wasn’t Bowen or even Paqueta but Kudus up there. He had the choice of Ings or Fullkrug and could have played Bowen in front of Kudus on the right but no, he had to shoehorn Soucek in there. It really is a shambles.

 

 

Ings picked up a bad knock getting subbed off at half time up at Leicester in the last match and was struggling to be fit enough to play at all, let alone start. 

Fullkrug has been out for most of the season bar the last 10 minutes first time back in ages up at Leicester in the last game.

So it's totally understandable that both didn't start and weren't rushed back in to starting XI last night because when you do that and they're not quite right, you get what happens at Spurs by the thick Fat Aussie twat. Who selfishly rushed back both Romero and Van Der Ven just to save his job and got badly burned by doing so. They are now both injured again after starting their last match.

Thankfully Lopetegui ain't that selfish and thick that he went with what he did which got us the win we deserved.

And by "shoehorning" Soucek in the side we got our crucial 1st goal lead.

[goose]

As for trying to play Bowen central in the absence of an Antonio (who isn’t a proper number 9 anyway), that’s another similarity between Moyes and this twat that makes anyone who really follows our fortunes cringe. But this time it wasn’t Bowen or even Paqueta but Kudus up there. He had the choice of Ings or Fullkrug and could have played Bowen in front of Kudus on the right but no, he had to shoehorn Soucek in there. It really is a shambles.

Not it wasn’t Kudus upfront, as was pointed out in commentary and everyone on here. You’re kidding yourself if you think otherwise.

Fullkrug isn’t fit and Ings has scored once in about two years. Like it or not, Bowen has a half decent record playing through the middle and is the best option in the absence of Antonio.

You’re so out of your depth it’s hilarious.

[Hammer and Pickle]

As for trying to play Bowen central in the absence of an Antonio (who isn’t a proper number 9 anyway), that’s another similarity between Moyes and this twat that makes anyone who really follows our fortunes cringe. But this time it wasn’t Bowen or even Paqueta but Kudus up there. He had the choice of Ings or Fullkrug and could have played Bowen in front of Kudus on the right but no, he had to shoehorn Soucek in there. It really is a shambles.

[Sir Alf]

Kudus being out for 5 games has set him back a bit naturally and this on top of being played out of position imo on the left.   But he was better last night than the previous game his first since coming back. Just a split second slower and not quite as strong but he will get that back.  What I liked last night is that he is definitely now realising that he needs to be a team player and he was not hanging onto it too much and was the source of several very dangerous balls into the box.  

A puzzle Loppy or whoever the coach is ( should he be replaced ) needs to solve is the Kudus, Bowen positions.  Both have done their best work on the right.  I would like to see Kudus played centrally like Bowen has done.  Might be a failure but worth trying.  When fully fit he protects the ball well even against much bigger defenders, turns either way, is quick and strong and currently needs 2 players to mark him. His weakness would obviously be in the air so it would mean him having to receive it to feet even with his back to goal.  Like I say, he might be wasted there, it might not work but just like to see it tried albeit wait until Kudus is fully match fit which might take another 1 or 2 games.  

[goose]

Pretty much every game when Benrahma, Antonio and Bowen started with him. Do your own research.

Indeed.  Look at all those times he's played midfield for us (barely ever).

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/mohamme ... rainer_id=

 

And yet here are Bowen's stats for 23/24
https://www.transfermarkt.com/jarrod-bo ... bewerb/CGB

Are you suggesting Kudus and Bowen have never played together? Or maybe you believe Kudus's actual favoured position is LW, in which case the case is closed and you are officially braindead in all respects. 

Are you that retarded really?

When Antonio was injured last season, Bowen played through the middle and Kudus played on the right.
Otherwise Kudus was wide left.

[Hammer and Pickle]

Pretty much every game when Benrahma, Antonio and Bowen started with him. Do your own research.

Indeed.  Look at all those times he's played midfield for us (barely ever).

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/mohamme ... rainer_id=

 

And yet here are Bowen's stats for 23/24
https://www.transfermarkt.com/jarrod-bo ... bewerb/CGB

Are you suggesting Kudus and Bowen have never played together? Or maybe you believe Kudus's actual favoured position is LW, in which case the case is closed and you are officially braindead in all respects. 

[Jaan Kenbrovin]

Even Roeder had vocal support from players like Joe Cole.

Ooohh, look at you, I remember something totally trivial from about 30 years ago 'coz I'm an old cսnt. What a totally pointless thing to say.

My point was there is no equivalent for Lopetegui, so not pointless at all. What is pointless is your bizarre outrage at my post. 

[Lee Trundle]

Pretty much every game when Benrahma, Antonio and Bowen started with him. Do your own research.

Indeed.  Look at all those times he's played midfield for us (barely ever).

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/mohamme ... rainer_id=

[goose]

If Kudus had played in a midfield three with Paqueta and Alvarez and had Bowen and either of Ings and Fullkrug ahead of him, he would have been used to his full potential and might have scored a brace. But Soucek is undroppable in this clown’s “system” so Kudus had to fit in, a casualty of a lack of basic common sense and craft.

Hahahaha just when you thought H&P couldn’t be anymore clueless about football, he comes up with this utter rubbish!!

[SurfaceAgentX2Zero]

Soucek

What isn't speculation is the fact that apart from being an aerial threat, he is pretty slow and add nothing in the buildup play.

 

 

So apart from the roads, the aquaducts, law and order and the blocks and goals, what have the Romans ever done for us...?

[Massive Attack]

I know exactly what type of player he is and where he should rightly be played like last night as a wide Forward, which almost resulted in scoring 2 well worked goals along with his assist.

 

Hence his vast experience and devastating capacity to beat the Wolves amazing offside trap when receiving the ball in front of goal and scoring. Twice. 

You do know what the offside rule is, don’t you babe?

Of course I do. Whereas you clearly know nothing about anything to do with Football, as much as you do about Poltiics. 

[Hammer and Pickle]

I know exactly what type of player he is and where he should rightly be played like last night as a wide Forward, which almost resulted in scoring 2 well worked goals along with his assist.

 

 

Hence his vast experience and devastating capacity to beat the Wolves amazing offside trap when receiving the ball in front of goal and scoring. Twice. 

You do know what the offside rule is, don’t you babe?

[Ladysmith]

I’m asking Kudus to be played in his favoured role and, as should be blindingly obvious, so is he. No my fault you don’t know what kind of player he is.

Kudus should stop sitting down after scoring a goal as it makes him look stupid and lazy, especially when it's Vared!

[goose]

I’m asking Kudus to be played in his favoured role and, as should be blindingly obvious, so is he. No my fault you don’t know what kind of player he is.

You wanna drop Bowen then?

[Massive Attack]

I know exactly what type of player he is and where he should rightly be played like last night as a wide Forward, which almost resulted in scoring 2 well worked goals along with his assist.

[Hammer and Pickle]

I’m asking Kudus to be played in his favoured role and, as should be blindingly obvious, so is he. No my fault you don’t know what kind of player he is.