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Penalties? Game should have been buried long before

By Hughie Southon

West Ham are not a team that currently knows how to win important games of football.

Those of us who were unable to make it to the London Stadium for the Carabao Cup clash against Blackburn Rovers could only follow the club blog which eventually informed us we had lost 10-9 on penalties and with that the chance of again winning something after years and years of trying.

Where was the near game changer at the start?

Having gone one down we pulled it back and taken the lead through Mikey Antonio and from all we read dominated totally until the 88th minute when Rovers equalised.

That appeared to be the only serious chance the Championship team had created through the second period as we saw Mikey hit the post, Said miss from 10 yards as various other decent chances went begging including one from first Hammers goal scorer Pablo.

So, to allow the opposition to grab that equaliser was as bad it gets after, it seems, the game should have been buried long before the 88th,

People will be telling us that penalties are a lottery and that we were unlucky to be knocked out, but the truth is we should have won and won easily. They and their manager only have themselves to blame,

Right now, we don’t win easily anymore do that anymore and if it happens again against Leicester City at the weekend we are in big trouble and facing a month when many difficult questions will be asked and only doubt, and serious uncertainty will be the answer!

 

 

 

About Hugh5outhon1895

Hugh Southon is a lifelong Iron and the founding editor of ClaretandHugh. He is a national newspaper journalist of many years experience and was Bobby Moore's 'ghost' writer during the great man's lifetime. He describes ClaretandHugh as "the Hammers daily newspaper!" Follow on Twitter @hughsouthon

3 comments on “Penalties? Game should have been buried long before

  1. It’s like this if we do not beat Leicester, Moyes has to be sacked. I also believe from looking in from the outside that Warbutten has not had a positive influence on our approach to games. Downes is and will never be an attacking mid and I am just shocked at how people like Moyes and warbutten think he can be eith all the experience they have. This was an embarrassing night for the club. The perfect time to replace Moyes is now, there are good coaches outt ther but whoever we bring in has to be offensive minded.

  2. I don’t know what’s going on , it’s like we think we can roll any tram over so don’t try . We have lost that hard work , pressing , never give up attitude which we need back . Why so defensive at the start too got to be on it from the whistle . Sort it out lads ⚒

  3. I didn’t see the game at the stadium but agree we should not have been at pens – more give aways early and late. Why set up so negative? Lower league oppo, yet two DCM set up? Why don’t we want to get on the front foot? Why are we conceding first and early with such a defensive line up? Why can’t we manage a game when leading with 20 mins to go? We are a sorry lot.

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