David Moyes has been insisting that he didn’t set the team up against Manchester City “to get beat” but to win the game.
The manager’s perceived cautious approach – particularly in impossible looking games away from the London Stadium – will always come in for criticism.
But it remains difficult to understand how we do not have more attacking options on display if he’s determination to win these games is to be taken seriously.
And of course so far we have won absolutely no games away from home under his stewardship this time around and only the one Premier League match – against Bournemouth.
As a result of those facts, reading his press conference comments is a little like arriving in some alternative reality.
We can only hope that he has now seen enough of the squad and its abilities to ensure that he adopts a positive approach to the most difficult game on the calendar at Anfield.
Commenting at https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2020/february/21-february/david-moyes-well-do-everything-we-can-anfield he said: “On Wednesday, we didn’t set up to get beat, we set up to win, but we set up to be hard to play against because we knew the quality of players we were playing against.
I’ve got to say the players did a really good job at it. We did a lot of good things. We conceded from a corner kick, which was disappointing, but there’s an awful lot of the play which you’d have to say we defended very well.
We didn’t use the ball well enough when we got it and we didn’t counter-attack well enough when we got it, which are things we have to improve on.
That’s why we love the game and that’s why we take part in the game, because you always hope that you’re going to be the team who can win. We’ll try and do that [on Monday], and let’s hope we can.
It’d mean a lot for me [to beat Liverpool]. Anfield is never an easy place for any manager or team to go to, but we’ll go there and do everything we can to get a result.
With any top team, all the managers of all the other teams are trying to find ways of beating them. That’s the way football is. Manchester City were the top dogs in the last few years. Liverpool have found ways of getting above them in the league.”
Are the owners listening to this rubbish ? If he is inferring that the team he selected was a team he believed would win the game, for me he has to go because he has just confirmed he is totally clueless. How much more of this do we need to see. He needs to be sacked and a manager brought in who will be attacking. He is just showing to all the fans who did not want him exactly why we did not want him as our manager. How long do we wait until it is mathematically impossible for us to stay up. Look at his results, look at his team selections, look at his tactical decisions, his substitutions….What else are the owners waiting for !! If he puts out the same or similar team against Liverpool then he has to be sacked before the Southampton game.
jonham1
I totally agree.
He is a liability and has been from the start.
Resting Bowen, protecting him what.
Championship players are more likely to settle in as they know the culture.
He hasn’t a clue how to get out of this.
Love the game.
I’m not, hate the guys as our manager
Clown of a manager 🤡🤡🤡
That’s why we’re going down. He’s living in cloud cuckoo land. Proof is in the pudding he has won 1 game against a poor Bournemouth side and to make a statement “that’s what I do winning “ should tell you everything about this man,the clue is in the fact that nobody else wanted this man,out of work for 18 months with no offers,he totally destroyed Sunderland. I fear for us!!
He set the team up to lose only 2-0 instead of 6-0! Man. City & Liverpool away are bonus games where we’re expected to get nothing but at least have a real go at them instead of trying to overwork the defence!!
This idiot earns millions of Pounds for what exactly.
What a load of old tosh! Clearly his definition of winning is different to everybody else’s. I’m looking forward to welcoming Wycombe at home next season. Let’s get relegated and fast and let the inevitable happen quickly, so we can start planning what our team and next manager will be and hopefully new owners for next season.
Ok we played at home first game of the season against Man City with an attacking formation under top manager Pellegrini and lost 5 nil at home and if not for Fabianski and City easing off could have lost by double that score?? More or less the same team played City on Wednesday and lost 2 nil with the not so top manager Moyes but our defence in the middle didn’t cave in so easily containment seems to be Moyes’s tactics away ? The real proof of the pudding in Moyes’s tactics will show NOT against Liverpool but Southampton at home, if he puts a defensive side against a team we need to score against then we know what Moyes is really all about? And some anti Moyes people will justifiably have a field day?? In his defence he put a ‘ Pellegrini ‘ attack minded side against Bournemouth and won ?? Not in his defence has I’ve stated before ‘lightning never strikes in the same place twice ‘ ? And that’s why I think it’s a big ask to repeat him saving us( the Hammers) from relegation twice? We have to support what we’ve been given and support it even against some people’s personal wishes? But if he puts a defensive side against Southampton more and more people will turn against his appointment and lots of ugly unrest will raise even a bigger head like the game he managed 2 years ago against Burnley as the rumblings are already happening before the Southampton game? So let’s hope he goes for broke against Southampton and get behind the team and put all personal issues aside till the last game of the season and then see if it’s time for a change again ???
Keep the faith C.O.Y.I
Dusty
You’re wrong, every game is winnable in the PL.
Pellegrini just set up with the wrong players.
City have lost 6 games in the PL this season.
He was naive in this thinking.
Moyes had 18 months sitting watching, then gets a job. No backroom staff in waiting.
You couldn’t make this crap up.
I feel by the Southampton game it will be to late..
We’ve has to many must win games since Moyes arrived.
We’re further away from safety than when he arrived.
loathe him
Moyes is to West Ham what Corbyn is for the Labour party, a complete loser .………….
Even Sullivan didn’t bother going to City, he was seen at the Savoy hopefully talking to a new manager [the tea lady will be an improvement]
Get him out now before we go down
So he’s now taken to lying to. Just do the decent thing and go.
So Moyes thinks a 2-0 away loss is a win when compared to a 5-0 loss at home.
WOW, it’s no wonder he thinks he’s a winner then and I guess he will take relegation as a win too because only three teams will have achieved that this season while the other seventeen teams missed out!!
On that logic let’s hope he wins the sack real soon before he wins the chance to take us to the next level which at this point in time seems to be a level lower than were we currently sit!!
Having given next to no criticism for the great manager pellegrini after we lost 5 nil at home to city first game of the season, the same people now attack Moyes for losing 2 nil to a team that have scored a hatful against better teams than us. The same fans are now throwing their toys out of the pram because we haven’t got the manager they wanted. Eddy howe or whoever it is is the flavour of the month this time round. I actually thought we weren’t weren’t far away from us talking about a great defensive performance against city. Maybe it’s because I’m a former defender admittiedly but I enjoy nothing better than a great defensive team performance against a much better team where we are hard to break down. I thought city got lucky with their goals to be honest with you.
I think people watching on the first day of the season saw our team trying to win and making a good competitive game of it in the first half before being thrashed in the second.
On Wednesday we saw timidity from the manager, and presumably players getting it from him.
I am unclear how City’s goals were lucky .With Cresswell clearly placing his hand on the ball and Ogbonna grabbing Aguerro by the meat and two veg we were fortunate not to concede two penalties.0 -2 was extremely flattering to us.
Yes, it wasn’t 5-0 but the manner of the defeat felt much worse to many of us.
With you, Len.
He is on drugs if he really said this . He is clueless . No plan A let alone B and C . …… and he keeps picking Noble !! enough said