⚽ West Ham Utd 1-1 Chelsea (11/2/23)

[Lord Zoltan]

Same starting 11 as v Newcastle please

We got this! West Ham win 3points

Who do we want to lose today btw? Leeds or Forest?

[BoleynInsider]

West Ham win, Chelsea all over the shop, Potter sacked, supporters chanting Moyes name once more. Just gutted it’s a 12.30 KO tbh.

[ParkersHere]

Only change maybe Formals for Benni but probably keep it as it was against Newcastle.

As for Leeds Forest hopefully a draw and keep them both in striking distance

[hammerman11]

hopefully we can match our desire yesterday but not the first 3 mins. chelsea hopefully wont be settled and we need to get the first goal.

fabianski
johnson ogbonna augerd
coufal rice paqueta emerson
bowen antonio fornals

johnson for kehrer and then maybe fornals in for benrahma who had a poor game last night. if only cornet was available !
I reckon zouma will make the bench. not sure about scamacca

subs anang kehrer cresswell zouma soucek lanzini downes ings benrahma

1-0 bowen

[prophet:marginal]

This is how CFC lined up against us in the league for our home fixture last season.

Edouard Mendy
Andreas Christensen
Emiliano Thiago Silva
Antonio Rudiger
Reece James
Ruben Loftus-Cheek
Filho Jorge Jorginho
Marcos Alonso
Hakim Ziyech
Mason Mount
Kai Havertz

Substitutes
Romelu Lukaku (s 46')
Christian Pulisic (s 72')
Callum Hudson-Odoi (s 64')

They've spent just £600M since that day!

[hammers92]

I’m in Florence next weekend, if anyone has any recommendations to watch the game please give me a PM.

[One Peter Butler]

We will be up for this one. I fully expect a home win.

Aguerd with a towering header and a deflected shot from Emerson. And a clean sheet

[hammerman11]

we need to be up for this no lunchtime snooze fest. look at everton`s crowd at it from first minute. get the bowl rocking and smash chelsea !

early spoons breakfast in stratford 9am a few pints
carpenters pre match warm up a few pints
12.30pm roar the lads to a big win
COYI

[funky chicken]

Assuming Zouma, Cornet and Scamacca are still out, plus Areola, Kehrer and Bowen are okay….

————————————-Fabianski—————————————

-Coufal——-Johnson-Ogbonna-Aguerd——-Emerson-

——————————-Rice———-Paqueta—————————

-Bowen———————-Antonio—————-———Fornals-


Subs: Areola, Kehrer, Cresswell, Soucek, Downes, Lanzini, Benrahma, Ings, Mubama.


It was a really tough decision to make whether to go for Kehrer and Johnson. The only reason Johnson got the nod from me is because I just think we’ll need someone who is better sitting deeper, while Kehrer is more well suited if you play a higher line.

Fornals for Benrahma, as if I have to see another performance from Benrahma as frustrating as the one last night, I won’t have any hair left! Shame Cornet isn’t ready yet, as I think this sort of game may have suited him.

Ings will hopefully get more minutes off the bench as he builds up his fitness after his injury.

I have a feeling at least one of Zouma or Scamacca will make a surprise return. My money being more on the latter.

Chelsea have been a lot better defensively in recent weeks. Three consecutive clean sheets since their 2-1 loss at Craven Cottage.

I fancy a battling 2-1 win for the b*stards in claret and blue. Bowen with one. And Ings to get his first for the club.

[BobbyMooreLower]

Same starting 11 as v Newcastle please

We got this! West Ham win 3points

Who do we want to lose today btw? Leeds or Forest?

Forest I think. Leeds have enough quality to stay up comfortably imo.

I’m not sure how Forest integrate all these players. The way they’ve gone about their transfer business is very similar to that of QPR in the early 2010s

[Bubbles Fortuna]

Fabianski
Kehrer Ogbonna Aguerd
Coufal Rice Paqueta Emerson
Fornals
Bowen Ings

2-0, Ings, Emerson

[Georgee Paris]

————Scamacca———
Antonio————————————Bowen
—————-Paqueta———Rice————
Emerson———————————-Coufal
————Aguerd——Oggy——-Kehler——
————————-Fab———————

[dodger]

Same starting 11 as v Newcastle please

We got this! West Ham win 3points

Who do we want to lose today btw? Leeds or Forest?

Agree with starting the same 11 we started against Newcastle. I haven’t changed my position of wanting Areola to start over Fabianski but I’m flogging a dead horse on that one as Moyes clearly prefers Fab so the same team is fine.

And we clearly want Leeds and Forest to draw.

[BigFatSam]

May sound weird but I’ll be a little disappointed if we don’t get something from this

[Morocco Mole]

Same team. They all earned another start.

[westham,eggyandchips]

Hopefully we'll get justice for the horrific decision to disallow a perfectly good goal at their place.

Praying their moneyball philosophy will backfire.

2-1 to us.

[arlhe]

Every single poster has us down to win.

0-2 and no shots on target.

[Bubbles Fortuna]

Agree with starting the same 11 we started against Newcastle. I haven’t changed my position of wanting Areola to start over Fabianski but I’m flogging a dead horse on that one as Moyes clearly prefers Fab so the same team is fine.

And we clearly want Leeds and Forest to draw.

Just when I think he'll make the change, Areola ends up injured.

[il_martello_di_genovesi]

———————-——Fabianski—————

——--Kehrer——--Ogbonna——--Aguerd

Coufal———-Rice——Paqueta——-Emerson

————————Bowen———Antonio

————————————Ings

I think we could benefit from direct running from Bowen and Antonio. With Benrahma and Scamacca to come on later. Would get Ings starting.

[Burnley Hammer]

———————-——Fabianski—————

——--Kehrer——--Ogbonna——--Aguerd

Coufal———-Rice——Paqueta——-Emerson

————————Bowen———Antonio

————————————Ings

I think we could benefit from direct running from Bowen and Antonio. With Benrahma and Scamacca to come on later. Would get Ings starting.

That's the exact team I was about to post. There's so much debate about Fornals vs Benrahma... I'd like to experiment with neither. I'd like to see Ings drop deeper during build up play, and Bowen and Antonio ready to make runs ahead, working the channels like Sakho and Valencia used to do during my favourite spell of the Allardyce era. I think that's how Scamacca should be used too. Forget traditional wingers. Forget target men.

So during build up, it almost becomes like....

Coufal———-Rice——Paqueta——-Emerson

-------------------Ings (or Scamacca)

————Bowen———----Antonio