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D-Day for Manuel Pellegrini

West Ham’s away game on the south coast against Southampton at St Mary’s this evening is seen as a make or break for the 67-year-old Chilean manager tenure at West Ham.

An away win would probably give him until the New year to see if results continue to improve while a draw would be a nightmare scenario which could leave both sides in further limbo over the festive period.

A West Ham loss tonight would surely be the end of the manager’s reign putting him and suffering fans finally out of their misery.

A loss to the Saints would see the Hammers drop down to 17th place and if Aston Villa can manage a draw or win over Sheffield United they could drop down to 18th in the relegation zone for Christmas day.

Bookmakers have Southampton as the 10/11 odds on favourites with 3/1 for the draw and 13/5 for a West Ham away win.

Suggestions that Harry Redknapp, Mauricio Pochettino,  Chris Houghton or Tony Pulis are poised to be approached should Pellegrini be relieved of duties are highly speculative and not really based on any hard evidence.

With the Hammers game against Liverpool postponed West Ham have no game until Boxing day when they face Crystal Palace giving 11 days between the two games.

 

 

About Sean Whetstone

I am Season Ticket Holder in West stand lower at the London Stadium and before that, I used to stand in the Sir Trevor Brooking Lower Row R seat 159 in the Boleyn Ground and in the Eighties I stood on the terraces of the old South Bank. I am a presenter on the West Ham Podcast called MooreThanJustaPodcast.co.uk. A Blogger on WestHamTillIdie.com a member of the West Ham Supporters Advisory Board (SAB), Founder of a Youtube channel called Mr West Ham Football at http://www.youtube.com/MrWestHamFootball, I am also the associate editor here at Claret and Hugh. Life Long singer of bubbles! Come on you Irons! Follow me at @Westhamfootball on twitter

3 comments on “D-Day for Manuel Pellegrini

  1. We’ll probably win this game to save his neck

  2. His time is up. we can’t defend correctly, we do not attack with pace and his recruitment has been a disaster. We are not playing as a team even when we win for example the Man Utd which we won, we were terrible that day but got the result. He has to go but who we choose to replace him is key. We don’t have good full backs, we don’t have pace in midfield, we have no pace up top when we play one up. It can’t be Hughton as his system of play does not suit the squad we have, it has to be a manager who will play system that would suit us, and trys to implement the west ham way. A huge decision. I would prefer Harry and Di canio over people like Moyes or Hughton.

  3. Unless there is an outstanding response from the team, am not sure why other than purely financial decisions we would keep him on.

    Whatever Noble says the dressing room has gone, under his tenure every single chance which have been many that the team could break new ground, e.g. when we could have gone 3rd earlier this season, the team have choked. I look purely at evidence and the team do not have the appropriate focus or intensity, what’s more it is always the same approach there is no variation, everyone looking will see the negative body language of the players. The only ones that don’t are Rice, Ogbonna, Zaba when he plays and Antonio, a proper manager would have spotted what most of us see and worked on trying different tactics or techniques to overcome block. MP has not got it in him to do that and his verbal language indicates it, he believes in his system and doesn’t deviate from that, which takes us so far and we did improve last season but all systems have weaknesses and can be exposed, short of injecting pace in every position our players with their high line are vulnerable to direct pace on the counter attack, we also lack the defensive Nous to play 4 at the back so with Masuaku they can attack inside left Chicago and left full back and with Cresswell they can flank him. Nearly all goals follow those 3 paths. Just get shot if the players don’t respond and we can still have a good season.

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