Moyes: Is it just bad luck?

West Ham boss David Moyes is under pressure.

The Hammers manager has struggled in recent weeks and the defeat to Crystal Palace at the weekend led to  signa of fan unrest.

However, there’s a fair argument here that it hasn’t been down to mismanagement, butpure bad luck.

Take Michael Olise’s winner yesterday. Yes, he had too much space, but his shot was deflected, and gave Lukasz Fabianski no hope. The opener, too, came from a Thilo Kehrer mistake.

Against Manchester United, David de Gea was unbelievable, and the Hammers deserved at least a point.

Liverpool, at Anfield, too was a game in which the Irons were actually the better team, particularly in the second half, but were again left empty-handed. Chelsea away should have been a point; VAR intervened to chalk out Maxwel Cornet’s perfectly good goal.

Versus Southampton, too, the Hammers had 25 shots but could only score once.

If you add these up, the Hammers should be in a far better position than they are currently. They’d have seven more points, if they drew all of the games mentioned, and beat Southampton.

Seven more points would give the Hammers 21 points, and leave them seventh, two points clear of Liverpool and level with Chelsea.

The ball just hasn’t rolled the right way; at some point, the luck surely has to change.