Crystal Palace 2 v West Ham Utd 2 (01/10/11)

[Aceface]

Saturday 1st October 2011
KO: 3pm
Venue: Selhurst Park, London



Recent form
West Ham United
(L) West Ham 0 - 1 Ipswich
(W) West Ham 1 - 0 Peterborough
(D) Millwall 0 - 0 West Ham
(W) West Ham 4 - 3 Portsmouth
(W) Nottingham Forest 1 - 4 West Ham
(L) West Ham 1 - 2 Aldershot

Crystal Palace
(W) Brighton 1 - 3 Crystal Palace
(L) Doncaster 1 - 0 Crystal Palace
(W) Crystal Palace 2 - 1 Middlesbrough
(L) Crystal Palace 0 - 1 Middlesbrough
(W) Crystal Palace 2 - 1 Wigan
(L) Leeds 3 - 2 Crystal Palace

Recent History
Since 1984 West Ham and Crystal Palace have met on 10 occasions, with West Ham winning 5 and drawing 1. The most recent meeting was a 1-0 victory to Crystal Palace in May 2004 in the play-off final that sent Palace to the Premiership.

West Ham team sheet that day
Bywater, Repka, Dailly, Melville, Mullins, Harewood, Carrick, Lomas, Etherington, Zamora, Connolly. Subs: Srnicek, Brevett, Reo-Coker, Deane, Hutchison

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[gavind]

i now am not happy going with the palarse supporting father in-law, and sitting in the home end.

[Aceface]

Thought I'd be a nerd and give one of these a whirl. The joys of all that free time and nervous energy following games by text

[Hammer Matty]

Chavs will be happy

[EastEndIRON]

Their tails will be up following their win against Brighton tonight

4-5-1 anyone?

[RyanWHUFC]

Top stuff mate, good match thread, I know we'll be going back to the 4-5-1 for this one.

----------------------Green---------------------
O'Brien----Tomkins----Reid----McCartney
----------------------Noble----------------------
Faubert----------Collison--------------Taylor
----------------------Nolan------------------------
----------------------Carew-----------------------

Subs: Boffin, Faye, Lansbury, Cole, Baldock

And (hopefully a 4-0 to bounce back from tonight)

[LeonRivers]

0-2 WES HAM. Tompkins, Collinson

[I8CHAVS]

Superb Aceface

[m-h]

Now then..................................

[MD_HM]

None of the giving into the fans crap

Back to 4-5-1 and winning please

Best team would be...

---------------------Green--------------------
O'Brien---Tomkins----- Faye----- Macca
-------------Noble--------Collison---------
Bentley-----------Lansbury-------Taylor
---------------------Cole---------------------

[saludo de carlitos]

Can't see anything but a loss here, we are lucky to be where we are.. We are a lot worse than our position suggests.

[Bobby Orangeboom]

Away from Home will bring relief & 3 Points..

[mywhufc]

Is there a race or competition to see who can start a game thread the quickest as one game finishes.

[iron57]

Does anyone else think it's time for Noble to be "rested?" There's no shortage of effort from him but quality is another matter. His game seems to be going backwards. His man of the match award against Peterborough beggered belief. Again tonight he gave the ball away on too many occasions.

[capt pugwash]

Green
Obrien. Faye. Tomkins. Linda
Diop
Bentley. Collison. Taylor
Nolan
Carew

[bubbles1966]

-----------------Green
----JOB- Tomkins -Faye - Linda
Faubert - Noble - Collison - Taylor
-------------------Nolan
-------------------Cole

Subs: GK - Reid - Lansbury -Baldock -Piquionne

Drop some of the ancient statues completely - Bentley, Carew, Diop.

Sadly, I cannot see an energetic central midfield option (except O'Brien maybe)- and everything flows from that - lack of midfield control, lack of support for Cole, the need for 4-5-1 We could do with another wide left option too - one with some pace..

We've overdone the slow, one paced, central midfielders and 6'4" target men at the club.

2-1 West Ham.

[Hockley Hammer]

You just know we are going to play 4-5-1 and get a good result after last night.

I haven't seen us conceed a goal away from home yet so that is a good start.

We haven't looked like losing a game away from home and I can see that continuing even with statues all over the midfield, the players seem more comfortable and relaxed with the formation away from home.

A comfortable win would be good after the last three games and then a break to work on some things.

[the pink palermo]

Sadly, I cannot see an energetic central midfield option (except O'Brien maybe)- and everything flows from that - lack of midfield control, lack of support for Cole, the need for 4-5-1We could do with another wide left option too - one with some pace..
We've overdone the slow, one paced, central midfielders and 6'4" target men at the club.

I wrote on the eve of the season the player I was most excited about seeing this year was Cristian Montano , I think Sam could do worse than recall him .

Your comments on the midfield otherwise - in terms of energy , I think are spot on .

I'd leave out Nolan .

[EvilC]

Does anyone else think it's time for Noble to be "rested?" There's no shortage of effort from him but quality is another matter. His game seems to be going backwards. His man of the match award against Peterborough beggered belief. Again tonight he gave the ball away on too many occasions.

I thought he had a good game on Saturday. If we are looking at dropping one of the central midfielders then for me it is either Lansbury or Nolan.

[durham city hammer]

Green
Demel. Tomkins Faye. Ringo

O'brien Diopp
Faubert. Bentley

Landsbury/ Nolan

Cole
This you would think would put an end to us being overrun in midfield every game
And give our attack minded players licence to get up and support cole!