DusseldorfHammer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:11 am There's always a spin.

There's always you making a flippant comment.

We were 3-1 up and stopped doing what we had been told. You've somehow got that to we are designed to play how we played once we stopped doing what we had been told to. Phillips for Antonio, and Johnson for JWP, really screams "keep playing how you are and don't drop deeper and let them build ...

SammyLeeWasOffside wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:44 am The bit you must have not noticed

Also worth pointing out that the 5-0 win also came with 36% possession, and scoring 5 goals from 7 shots on target

Freiburg were bloody awful.

SammyLeeWasOffside wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:44 am The bit you must have not noticed

And the sentence before it:

"From from my point of view, we overwhelmed Burnley in the second half absolutely because we played all-in.

That first half where we set up with JWP in the #10 and had an xG of 0.08.

Despite all of our problems right now, I absolutely cannot wait for Thursday. Leaving the office at 12, weather should be reasonably ok, and we're in a European quarter final. We may go out, but these are the games you look forward to. Fulham at home and Palace away, with respect to them both, can ...

For every Thilo, there's a Coufi (who's a pretty limited full back, but who's showing maximum effort week-after-week and takes nothing for granted). Coufal is a great example, I've been trying to find one of his earlier interviews with the club. He 100% talked about how he wants to get the ball dow...

“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.