Hammers cock it all up again at the death

By Hugh Southon

Palace 2 Hammers 2

Ogbonna commited a ridiculous foul to give Palace a penalty

They chucked it away again in the last 10 seconds and they only have themselves to blame!

After taking a two goal lead through Chicharito  and Andre Ayew, the Irons were on cruise control until five minutes into the second half when Ogbonna gave away the most ridiculous of penalties.

He chose to clip Andros Townsend from behind as he ran AWAY  from goal and Milivojevic stepped up to beat Hart from the spot.

That was the signal for the chicken-hearted Irons to defend as deep as possible in a bid to hang on to their precarious lead.

Any running, passing and creativity we had seen and there wasn’t much stopped to demonstrate exactly where the Hammers are this season – suffering from a massive inferiority complex and in no way able to boss any game.

But it almost worked until Antonio chose not to find one of three strikers awaitinge’s cprner a cross in from the right and the ball was cleared to Zaha who went to the other end and tuck away a low shot past Hart.

The simple thing to do was to hold the ball in the corner and let the seconds tick down but no he cocked it up completely – shocking.

Chicharito had opened the scored with a clipped shot from the outside of his boot from inside the box before Ayew added his fifth for the campaign with a thunderous shot into the top corner after a magical run.

That alone should have won the match but instead we decided to play like a bunch of scared rabbits caught in the headlights of a very poor Palace side.

There was nothing here to convince anybody that we are on any sort of upward curve and another two goals conceded take the tally for the season to 19  and the nine points sees us in 16th place.

Next up it’s Liverpool at home, then Watford away and Leicester City at home but the hard fact is  it’s hard to fancy the team against anybody.

With an international break squeezed between all that there needs to be some serious decision making going on at this troubled club.