West Ham beaten and very hard to watch

Olympiacos 2 West Ham 1

Watching West Ham United has again become seriously hard work – there is no pleasure in it at all right now.

In its way this was as poor a performance as we saw against Villa and, sorry, but Olympiacos are in no way one of the European giants nor do they play like a team anywhere close to it as they won their first Group game in three!.

The essentials first – we were beaten by a well struck shot from Fortounis on 33 minutes and a poor own goal from Ogbonna on half time.

West Ham’s one moment of quality came from a Paqueta goal which he thundered into the bottom corner three minutes before the end of normal time.

West Ham hard to watch

The Moyes plan from the start was to not concede with Areola being forced to save low early on before Benrahma missed from an acute angle. Beyond that we offered nothing ahead of the opening goal followed by a disastrous intervention on half time from Ogbonna for the own goal.

This for long periods was the same old West Ham, losing possession, poor passing, and when they should have been having a real go passing backwards and sideways,

It was very, very hard to watch and what made it so much worse was when they turned it on towards the end and had the opposition at full stretch you realised it could have been so very different.

Frankly this won’t do but we remain jointly top of Group A with our fate in our own hands.