“I am very happy to have moved in the winter and discovered a style of football that corresponds with my qualities,” he says. “At West Ham, there were lots of phases of play where you had to defend in a low block and it was about tempting teams in and attacking on the counter, or with set pieces, or...

It’s going to be really frustrating to drop below this Chelsea side in the league.

“For me, it’s never just about the result. It’s about the process,” Fonseca said in the same interview in January. “I want to create something that allows you to enjoy the game. And to do that, you need to have an attacking way of playing. You have to try to dominate and create more chances than th...

westlondonhammer wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:55 pm This is an excellent article: https://theathletic.com/5341423/2024/03 ... r-profile/

Sold.

Crowd problems at Leverkusen you say?

Takeiteasy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:19 pm Daniele De Rossi has shown him right up this season.

A decent example that there can be light after a "pragmatic" manager.

https://fbref.com/en/comps/9/possession/Premier-League-Stats Teams playing against us have had 24,027 touches of the ball, the second highest in the league below only Sheff Utd - 24,352 (lowest being vs Man City - 15,594). Teams playing against us have had the highest amount of touches in the penalt...

Not sure wanting it to be 0-0 after 70 minutes is the optimum situation to be in!

Got to get a goal in the first half.

https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1729416/MatchReport/England-Premier-League-2023-2024-West-Ham-Fulham The average player position maps from yesterday are pretty telling. Fulham look excellently balanced whilst Antonio, Ings, Paqueta and JWP are all basically on top of each other. No idea why Ings w...

If Ings and Antonio are to play together they need to work on their communication. There were a few occasions yesterday when they were making the same runs. Noticed that too, someone else mentioned in the Fulham thread that half the time our front four didn't know where they were playing - it was s...

Make it loud.

This might well be it for a while, let's not go out with a whimper.

Another summer of rebuilding coming and looking like no European football to offer. Whoever comes in is going to have one hell of a job to do. It'll probably be beneficial in the long run, or I can try and tell myself that. This team look like they're running on fumes. Maybe with a week between gam...

Lost possession 22 times today.

4 wins in 19 games.

That was awful. Really awful. There’s me thinking we’d let Ings play behind Antonio but Mickey ended up on both the left and ring wings leaving a completely ineffective Ings with an equally ineffective Paqueta. No idea how this group of players lift themselves for Thursday. Also, Fulham singing “is ...

Ings in the #10 masterclass incoming

He’s got to start Ings or Mubama. We need 90+ minutes from Antonio on Thursday.

You’ve got the players available. Use them. If they play ****, they play ****, but we cannot afford Antonio to be blowing after 60 minutes against Leverkusen.

mushy wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:58 pm I thought it was outside the area.
Am I the only one?

It was, but the defender went unpunished.

Al Fisti wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:42 pm Tomorrow we could be 6th

I remember going into the last game against Fulham thinking the league table would look great with a win.

We got spanked 5-0.

Did the defender not get sent off then?