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!