West Ham’s shortage of clean sheets has not gone unnoticed by the club’s powers that be and they have not been frightened to say so publicly.
The Irons run of games in which they have conceded now totals ten of the trot – stretching back to the game against Newcastle in September indicating where the team’s major problems have been.
Along the way the Irons have conceded no less than 17 goals and David Gold has made it clear he’s not happy and wants an end to it at Old Trafford this weekend.
Speaking to ClaretandHugh he said: “Not only have we been desperately unlucky with injures but it seems every mistake we make gets punished with a goal – it’s frustrating not to mention expensive.
“We have now gone 10 games without without a clean sheet which is probelmatival and the game at Old Trafford would be the perfect place to put a halt to that.
“We are a good team and I still travel with great confidence. We can’t let misfortune get to us – that no way forward.”
Correct Johnboy sloppy passing and marking by Jenks and to a lesser degree Tonks
And Cressie early on in the season,
But some of the balls Adrien throws to our defenders are ridiculous and the same with the back passes,absolutely sucide
Ogbonna does not panic on the ball which has come from playing in Italy where they have more time and he attacks the ball not backing off all the time,
Obiang or Song with Kouate all the 3 of them will improve the defending or Oxford again
With the talent we have up front 3 attacking players is sufficient Lanzini,Zarate plus 1 other
No brainer
Agree with the misfortune quote but there’s the little point about our defensive MISTAKES and the players who are to blame ! Namely jenks noble the pick with the odd tommo mistakes and the defensive inability of moses and zarate and lanzini seems to have slacked a bit in his defensive duty !! If we have luxury players then they have to produce on the park every week with goals scored and created to counter the goals conceded !! When we are under par on this front we have to defend more aggressively !!! 100% defence first and take a chance when created if not then don’t conceded !!! Us west ham supporters have proved time and time again that if our team works its socks off and loses then we accept the defeat
but if certain players don’t pull their weight then we have concerns with the players non commitance ,
Bubs hit the nail on the head the other day when he mentioned didding in deep 100% especially after the ihjurys we have accumulated lately to counter the setbacks !!
It will be interesting to see how we perform on Saturday and see who is or is not in that bracket ?? Sometimes a finger needs to be pointed ? Bilic IMO needs to raise his hand and tell players what is acceptable and what isn’t ,, some times players need to be chastised as a nice manager can have the pee taken out of him !!!! Point that finger Bilic and say it as it is and if there’s no responds then stick em in the stiffs!!!!!
100% no less is needed to get out of this bad patch then continue the plan !!!