The post mortem on Saturday just keeps going on giving and will no doubt do so until and Burnley.
If ever a result was needed it’s this weekend but in the meantime ClaretandHugh Facebook follower Paul Seeman gives a very well reasoned summary of the problems the team is facing.
In doing so he comes to some straightforward and non melodramatic conclusions.
By Paul Seeman
There just seems to have been a massive drop off in form from most of the players at the same time – really strange!
Is it really as straight forward as Fabianski being out of the team or is that just coincidence? These same players started the season well – although we have had a poor goal conversion rate for a while.
Anderson, Lanzini and Yarmolenko should be stonking going forward but they all seems so low on confidence at the same time, and back ups are equally out of form or injured.
On the plus side, we are only four points off of fifth and have a team that is still capable of giving most sides a beating when they click. This has to be a mental thing, something more underlying.
Need much more directness – look at what happened at the end of the Newcastle game – but for how long have we been really poor at the start of the games?
Even at the last season in the Boleyn we often went behind first. Probably the reason we are only four points off 5th as that somany other teams who should be challenging are also suffering from a similar malaise – Everton, Tottenham, Man U, Wolves, even by their standards Man City.
Look abroad at Real Madrid last year or Bayern Munich. I think it is indicative of wider issues in football. I don’t think changing the manager will help or is necessary, but they need to unpick what is happening.
Sorry I just don’t believe it. Whilst Noble had got ime to Prank Rice then obviously not enough time is spent at trading or working at tactics
At least we seem to have stopped the rediculous 2 man free kicks but now have every man behind the penalty spot for corners – no pressure on the Goalkeeper and easy for the defence to get the ball away
I seem to remember players in past spent extra time training think of Di Canio and the young Frank Lampard who spent extra hours perfecting their skills in their own time
I’ve said before Pelegrini is not hungry enough at 66 he doesn’t need to be hungry he’s the 3rd highest paid manager in the PL at £8m a season and even if he was sacked tomorrow he would be comfortable
Dod anyone else notice Anderson and Snodgrass arguing with each other after we went 2 0 down on Saturday and its all very well saying on the West Ham website we need to do better well if you do go out against Burnley and prove it. Effort is needed from minute 1 not the 80th minute.
Noble started the season well enough and people talking about him being picked for England since when he’s lost it Rice and Diop and Anderson have played virtually every game for the last 2 seasons.
Pelegrinis line ups have not made sense almost like he’s saying your turn this week why drop Frederick’s and Ogbonna when they have probably our best players
I’m just frustrated and saddened at the total lack of professionalism
The problem seemed to be combinations of poor pace – Balbueno and Zaba together, Nobes and Yarmo together – the 4 of them on the right and none very quick in both directions. As soon as that changed 2nd half we picked up the pace. For the last few games the other teams seemed to outpace us…