West Ham suffered the ‘sickener’ of a 96th minute equaliser last night which must have caused a sense of despair in the stadium after playing so well for so long and surely deserving three points.
No disgrace though, to emerge with a point against a resurgent fourth placed Manchester United who are now unbeaten in nine. In fact, one look around the headlines this morning tells the scoreline from a different perspective, and one which should come as some comfort to both fans and players who desperately deserved the full three.
That man again – Soucek’s strike saw the Hammers in front
My particular favourite is japantoday.com who lead with:
“West Ham ends Man Utd’s winning run; Spurs sink to 16th:West Ham moved to within two points of safety with Spurs now just five points above the relegation zone in 16th.”
Proving everything looks better in the morning. Unless you happen to be Thomas Frank. West Ham have upped the ante and if they carry on in this form, averaging something close to two points per game, salvation is at hand.
Nuno has the Irons playing with confidence – and whilst two tough games lie ahead against both current champions and former champions after the FA Cup interlude, the Hammers’ form may yet see them overtake Forest or, whisper it quietly, a Tottenham team who have won just two in the last eleven:
“Frank was met with chants of “you’re getting sacked in the morning” by the disgruntled Spurs supporters after failing to win for the 11th time in 13 home league games this season.”
This season is no longer the shoe-in for West Ham to suffer the drop which seemed the case at Christmas: The Hammers showed against Chelsea and again last night that they need fear nobody over the last 12 games. Let’s all cheer on Wolves tonight and keep the faith.
‘Shoo-in’ not ‘Shoe-in’.
We have to hope Wolves do us a favour, they could get a result against Forest, we were unlucky last night, it was a world class moment from Sesko that’s what 70m forwards can do for you…
We were as good as them, it was a brilliant team performance and we may be 5 points behind again after tonight’s game. If so then it’s still not a time to be despondent, we have most of our tough games coming up imminently but if we can get some points out of them even if we end up 8 or more points behind we could catch that up on Forest because they have a tough end to the season and ours is less so, we could pick up 12 points in the last April and May
Gutted but optimistic . The boys are fighting and playing some nice football . Nuno seems to have realised that Killer Kilman has no future at the club and Maggassa is great coming on of off the bench . COYI
Well one point is better than none. Six wins will now get us 42 points. We know that may not be enough. So we need to beat Bournemouth, Fulham, Wolves, Palace, Brentford and then Leeds. Lose any of those and we are down.
I have to say that the atmosphere last night was absolutely incredible, the stadium was almost crackling at some stages. For anyone STILL moaning about the stadium and calling it a soulless bowl, well, what more exactly do you want? 60-odd thousand fans cheering and shouting creates an electric atmosphere that the Boleyn could only dream of. It clearly ISN’T the stadium that’s the problem. If i hear one more word about the lack of atmosphere………
It was fantastic to be at Stamford Bridge and then last night, both matches I’d gone to in the hope we didnt get beaten heavily and demoralising everyone for the real must win matches against Burnley amd Bournemouth respectively.
However, driving home last night, reality sunk in, we need to win 6/7 of the last 12 matches when we’ve only won 6 of the first 26.
There’s no room to lose one of those must win matches, the opposition playing out of their skins, wonder strikes, poor ref decisions or heaven help us, injuries to key players…. or come to that crazy Nuno substitutions.
At least we’re living in hope, and it was good to see West Ham youngsters involved, and most importantly last night,the crowd was with the players, great atmosphere.
COYI — let’s all dream of The Spuds, with Kudus, going instead of us 🙂
We’re 8th in the last eight played form table is not relegation form provided it continues.
Tottenham are second bottom and in free fall, Palace third bottom and Brighton fifth bottom are the relegation form teams other than Wolves and Burnley.
Leeds 10th looking reasonably good, Forest 13th are picking up one point per game is struggling a bit.
Tottenham have four points from eight games, all draws, they can’t buy a win. They’re at home to Arsenal next…
I’ve got to say since the away win at spurs I haven’t felt so pleased with the team’s performance in a long time. As somebody else commented, if we do go down at least make a fight of it and we are. Well done the team ,effort is everything. 60 years a fan and as we all know the last 3seasons have been awful. Imagine if we had bought a striker and centre half before the season started , quite how potter believed we didn’t need a striker and how you operate with 3 centre half’s at this level none of us fans will ever understand, poor management at all levels. Onward and upward we can escape but have got to do it ourselves it’s the 3 pointers we have got to achieve,so unlucky last night seskos goal was brilliant but could have gone anywhere but such is life . Good opportunity to maybe step up academy centre half in the cup ,defo need to rotate our hard working 1st team.