Three huge points for West Ham, one giant let down for our friends from Putney - as Crysencio Summerville's second half strike separates the two teams. Find out what the Cottagers made of it all in the latest edition of the OV...
"I missed the Spurs game, so didn't get the chance to enjoy what sounded like a great team performance. Going into last night I didn't know what to expect, West Ham are a team we tend to struggle against at home over the years. We seem to not like coming up against claret and blue teams by and large. Last night was a total shambles and it's hard to find any redeeming features. There seems to be some kind of issue we have when we have a winnable game at home, to make a push for a European spot and we just don't turn up. Losing is fine, but how we lose matters and last night was a bit of a mess. Is it a matter of complacency, after one or two good results - the players just feel their job is done and don't approach these games with right attitude? Everton, Palace and now West Ham this season have all been games where there was a huge opportunity for us to push on. We may not win all of those but there has been something missing, where we are not at the races. West Ham looked so comfortable last night and we struggled with their press. Did the players underestimate them? Were they not prepared?"
- hopper
"That was genuinely disgusting. Baffling managerial selection, no tactical identity, minimal effort and a team that never looked like they were doing anything more than going through the motions. Silva picked the wrong XI and made it about 10x worse with atrocious subs, not for the first time this season I wonder if he's actually hitting the wall with us as a manager expecting to be on the front foot and taking the initiative because we've reverted to type tonight of just get it wide and hit a hopeful cross in."
- Deeping_white
"Not a single player has done well this evening, including for West Ham. It's been one of the worst games of football I've ever watched. Not good enough. Absolutely atrocious. I genuinely mean not good enough, I think fining the keeper for that would be reasonable."
- SimonDaviesEnjoyer
"The spring in my step was hampered when I saw team sheet in all honesty. Then compounded with result. Why was there a need to make so many changes knowing you could play the more fringe players this Sunday? Has to be on Marco, this defeat. Why King last night? If anything he looks like he is struggling and surely Bobb after the Spurs game gives West Ham more to worry about? Leno, we've seen this now more regularly than previous and I stand by we should've got a goalkeeper in who was going to challenge the #1 spot and not what we've done the last couple of seasons and sign cup-only goalies."
- JimmyConway
"Us not winning is perhaps on Marco, us losing is entirely on Leno. I have stood up for him in previous threads, but this is indefensible. West Ham were terrible too and they were never going to score. He gifted them the goal with something that I still can't get my head around. What on earth was he doing there??? Atrocious."
- SerbianLad
"We were fortunate with some of the decisions today, Iwobi's 'hand ball' could've been given as a pen and Robinson probably should've got a yellow. That one by Fernandes wasn't even a foul, having watched it back."
- Bassey the warrior
"I actually have no real issue with the team Marco sent out today (other than preferring Anderson to Diop). Coming off only two days of rest with a Cup fixture that many fans think is very important this weekend, I don't think it would have made any sense to run out the same line-up as on Sunday (not to mention he was forced into at least one change with Wilson out). This performance was on the players. Nobody was particularly good, but that Leno error... it keeps getting worse every time I watch it. If we'd only had average PL goalkeeping this season we'd be sitting a couple spots higher in the table..."
- Chi_FFC
"We lost to Leno being a complete doughnut. West ham did bugger all, all game. it was a calamity gift that saw us lose. West Ham did absolutely f-all, too. We've lost this to a shocking brainfart from Leno and Bassey. Stupid, stupid, stupid. A draw would have been more than fair. Deeply irritating performance."
- jayffc
"Not a single player has done well this evening, including for West Ham. It's been one of the worst games of football I've ever watched. Not good enough. Absolutely atrocious. I genuinely mean not good enough, I think fining the keeper for that would be reasonable."
- SimonDaviesEnjoyer
"That was genuinely disgusting. Baffling managerial selection, no tactical identity, minimal effort and a team that never looked like they were doing anything more than going through the motions. Silva picked the wrong XI and made it about 10x worse with atrocious subs, not for the first time this season I wonder if he's actually hitting the wall with us as a manager expecting to be on the front foot and taking the initiative because we've reverted to type tonight of just get it wide and hit a hopeful cross in."
- Deeping_white
"We played a strange starting 11 with Cairney starting centrally and Iwobi on the wing. The first half seemed under control, if boring. King looked hungry for a goal but couldn't get it. Second half Leno casually walks out of his box to recover a ball over to Bassey before Bowen can run off with it, but Bassey doesn't realise what's going on until a second too late. Circus ensues, West Ham score the only goal of the match. It was just all so clumsy and confusing."
- Squatosaurus-Rex
"That was beyond woeful. 40-points and once again we stroll to the beach. I cannot understand the same syndrome every year. The half time walking football teams moved quicker and with more purpose than any of our players..."
- ffc73
"Passport back in the drawer. That was atrocious at every level."
- HV71
"I disagree with people saying there was a lack of effort. There was a lack of quality. Maybe Silva changed the team because he sensed some complacency in the squad after the Spurs win? We were all calling for subs but they didn't particularly help. Our passing was just off all night. The only question was whether we'd keep a clean sheet and perhaps fluke a penalty or something because we never looked like scoring. Let's not forget we were pretty poor away to West Ham and managed to sneak a win, so we have no God-give right to win these games."
- bencher
"That was like watching a comic spoof of football. The total lack of quality at times (both sides), the complete mess of decisions, THE GOAL! What did I just watch?"
- Willham
"Bitterly disappointed. Should have been an easy three points."
- St Eve
"A very winnable FA Cup 5th round still to come on Sunday and no fear of relegation with still a substantial number of league games which we can enjoy without fear. That is a satisfactory season so far, in my opinion. I would rather have a season "over" (which it isn't, for me) in that way than be involved in a relegation scrap."
- Plodder
"I am not going to go on one about 'not being fit for Europe" or 'get rid of Silva', or any of that bollocks that is about to flood this forum, but boy that was a bucket of horsehit. On to the next one."
- Somerset Fulham
"I think I've figured it out, he's letting West Ham win so Spurs get relegated and we buy Richarlison on the cheap."
- Nero
"Well that was the worst game I've watched in ages. Horrific refereeing, toothless upfront without Wilson. What a waste."
- crosbybrowne
"Time and time we close in on the Euro spots, time and time again Marco Silva cant handle it. Too many changes tonight when only Wilson was missing from the weekend line-up. Cut our losses now, get him out and let's move on and regroup for next season."
- KentFulham
"No one played well. But there you go. Fulham will always let you down. It's in our DNA. I still haven't got over that 0-1 loss to Preston that denied us the old 3rd Division championship."
- The Old Count
"Losing to a side that are rubbish. Disgusting performance."
- Coastwalker
"The goal: Neither player wanted to be aggressive to the ball. It's set up perfectly for Bassey to hoof it with his left foot. Neither of them make a decision. We could still recover and I'd blame Berge for not diving in to take out Summerville, but instead he's prepared for the winger to go to the right instead of the left and he's been done with that fake that suggested it. I think in hindsight Diop should immediately be stepping with Berge, but is covering the goal instead."
- Matt10
"WHU fans openly celebrating in the home areas was the icing on the cake. Gutted."
- SP
"We got a taste of our own medicine from the away fixture."
- riccyd140
"Every team in the country, from Surrey Youth League Under 12s upwards has it within their repertoire to be comically, cosmically terrible. Tonight was our night. Nuno is doing a great job with West Ham. Expected them to wilt after half time, but not a bit of it."
- Carborundum
"My true MoM would have been a TNT sound engineer if one had muted the commentator and that prize twat Robbie Savage. They might as well have been standing in the West Ham end, they were so desperate for them to win."
- Plodder
"Unpopular opinion: I'd take this loss if it means West Ham stay up and Spurs go down."
- FireLadcouk
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