What it is with Lopetegui, I don’t know, it is as if he is driving this West Ham United team with the handbrake on. Clearly today Mohammed Kudus will be a big miss but – we have a natural replacement who must be desperate for a start after moving from the Championship as ‘player of the season’ to West Ham this summer.
Crysencio Summerville has looked good in his ten-minute cameos and MUST be given a start today. He has the skill and direct running to take on and beat most full backs.
Would Manchester United’s right-sided defenders prefer to face pedestrian Soler or pacy Summerville? Obvious.
In addition, the midfield cries out for surgery. Lopetegui needs to suck it up and admit that Rodriguez and Paqueta’s performances last week were below standard.
Kevin Nolan put it succinctly when speaking on TalkSport:
โThey have got to find the best three in midfield. [Against Spurs] it was quite open from back to front. [Alvarez] does give you that sort of one way he can hold the ball for you, he can dictate play also and he fills it really well: So whether he partners with Rodriquez (ahh please no! MT) or whether he partners with what we would had done last year with Soucek, [heโs got to play], so yeah, decisions have got to be made.โ
Let’s have a midfield that actually competes instead of gifting the ball back every minute. The front three and the back four can sort themselves out.
And regarding Summerville, Nolan was equally forthright:โSummerville coming in, he has got to prove now why fans want to see him, why they want to see him playing for West Ham. So this is his opportunity now. He has got to step up.”
If Soler appears instead of Summerville as a left-sided forward or Rodriguez starts in midfield again, I swear I’ll chuck my Hammers Mug at the screen and go chop wood in the garden instead of watching the game. Probably doing myself an injury in the meantime.
Come. On. You. Irons.
Did you throw your mug at the screen?
most certainly. What makes it so frustrating is that Lopetegui admitted his cock up at half time by the three changes. He could have asked 60,000 fans who would have told him the same thing.
Something needs to happen fast. I don’t blame J-Lo entirely, we all know the rot set in long back. We have won just six games in 2024, the entire year! If that’s not relegation form what is? (league games obvs, mind you we haven’t won many others either ๐)
yep, exactly. WE all see it, will our coach or will he stay Lopsisided?
Lopsided Im afraid
I shall be looking for Summerville and Alvarez to start as my absolute minimum. I will be angry if I do not see that.
I would like to see Soler replace Paqueta too, and I would have no issue with Fabianski replacing Areola.
We cannot afford to carry those who are off form.
Spot on
If we can all see it (agree on everything) why canโt our manager?!
Sadly I don’t trust Loopy to do anything other than completely balls this up!!
We’ll see when the team is announced, but I’m going to explode if things are not something like what’s been discussed and agreed here. Literally everyone can see it.
BOOM! what was that? John just exploded
Lopetegui still can’t see it, from that starting eleven