Pellegrini slowly winning his biggest challenge
There can be no question that it has finally got through with a couple of blips – or rubbish decisions by officials – over recent game.
And it finally reached it’s perfect epicentre with the victory over Spurs. Now we need to carry that into the final two games of the season and break through the 50 points for the season barrier.
Pellegrini has had many challenges in this first season but probably none bigger than proving this central point because injuries and difficult players come and go.
Bad refereeing or lining decisions will always be with usaround and can;t be changed but an attitude of mind within a club can despite it seemingly having been around forever at West Ham.
We have all been sick of playing second and third fiddles to the Chelseas, Arsenals and Spurs’ – he is doing his utmost to change that and I reckon is slowly winning it.
It was to the fore in everything he had to say after the game where on www.whufc.com he explained again: “If you want to be a big team you need good performances from individual players. After that with those good performances you need to play well as a team.
“We defended well, had good possession of the ball, we didn’t lose to many easy balls and created a couple of chances against a team that is in the semi-final of the Champions League and third in the Premier League, a very difficult team with a great manager and very good players.
“The second part of the season we have been conceding too many goals in the games we have played away. It was a very good performance today as a team. Maybe we have to be a little more calm when it was 1-0 to decide the game because we had three or four counter attacks at big pace, we must score.
“But I understand the pressure, this rivalry in London, the fans are happy to win. It is not easy, they are a good team but yes for me it was a complete performance.”