Pellegrini finds it all very difficult to understand!
And in his post match presser he made it clear that he was finding it difficult to understand how the team started with such a poor and listless attitude.
Join the club Pelle but truth is it’s all a bit more worrying that it should be if you don’t get what’s going on.
The truth is we were never at the races and a team that had scored six goals all season managed half that number against us in 90 minutes – that should be of the gravest concern
He sounded confused and anxious as he declared: “It’s really difficult to understand why we started the game with that attitude and without the pace that we need to win the game. In some games before we lost here, Crystal Palace was two set-pieces, today also was two set-pieces.
“They’re important points. In the second-half we reacted a little bit more but that’s not enough. You need [to play well for] 95 minutes in the Premier League to win.”
The reality was that the Hammers didn’t really start playing at all until they were 0-3 down which frankly is a pretty disgraceful way to carry on at home.
And what’s more worrying is that this slow starting nonsense has been going on since last season – Brighton and Hove Albion away anyone?
The manager is desperate to get to the bottom of today’s slow start but frankly that should have happened a long while ago.
He said: “We start the season well and then we lose to Oxford, after that we start losing games so we need to know why. “The second half, we improved a little bit but I repeat you cannot play 45 minutes in a game. I need to find the reason to understand why we start the game in that way.
“The other two games that we played here at home we had the possession from the beginning, we went in front, we create chances and maybe the score depends on a lot of things.
“Today, for me, we cannot believe that the score was 3-2. Newcastle had a couple of chances first half that Roberto saved but we need to have a good meeting to review what we are doing.
“You must try to recover after that. We’ve been in worse positions than now but we need a strong reaction. We can’t play like we did against Everton. I hope the squad understands.”