West Ham could have been in fourth place in the Premier League table leapfrogging Chelsea with 43 points if they could only hold on to a lead.
The depressing statistic is that the Hammers have lost 19 points this season after being in winning positions.
That was demonstrated in the game against Brighton last week when led 2-0 and 3-1 before dropping two points in the 3-3 draw.
Those extra 19 points would jump West Ham from 18th spot with 24 points in the relegation zone up to fourth with a Champions League qualifying place.
As Matt Law from the Telegraph has pointed out David Moyes’ first six Premier League games have been worse than Pellegrini’s last six (in terms of points) and he could equal the former manager’s worst run with defeats to Manchester City and Liverpool.
With a combined 39 games managed for the Hammers Moyes needs to win four games from the next eight just to equal Avram Grant’s record of winning 15 games drawing 12 and losing 20.
As Hammers fans we are naturally focussed on our team and sometimes lose the bigger picture of the skewness of the Premier League – last yeat at this time we would have pointed at Watford as a team doing really well – while we have competed with Man Utd over the past few seasons we are certainly not in a position to go out and spend 70 million on a Harry Maguire and 60 million on a Bruno Fernandes – even if our owners wanted to do so — the Orwellianly named “Financial Fair Play” regulations would not allow it
So what we need to do as a club is to consolidate (like Wolves, Leicester, Everton) as a top half club for a few seasons – provided that we can avoid relegation this time around
One thing that puzzles me is that in the last days of Slav we were told that the problem was that we were not fit enough. With WBA has SLav corrected this and if so why did it take him so long in his managerial career to work this out?
What are you trying to achieve with this picture and article is obvious but why not mention that most of the lost points from winning positions were under Pellegrini? Why not compare Pellegrini to a Avram Grant because there are far more similarities between those two “big team” managers. Both vastly overrated has been managers by the time they came to manage little old West Ham. Moyes has given us our best wins of the season so far in his first two games and has had to contend with injuries during the overcrowded winter period of games and having to play top six teams. Of course his stats aren’t going to be great. Why not Judge him at the end of the season when he’s had a fair crack of the whip. Mind you I said that the last time he saved us and he wasn’t appreciated or given a fair chance then either was he.
Moyes was the wrong choice the first time around and to bring him back was laughable. With that lack of version from the owners we are where we belong. It’s such a sad thing for our long suffering fans. When will we go in the right direction that our best supported club deserves.
I’m not taking sides but didn’t Moyes prevent us from being relegated last time? I thought it was Slav who put us in the mire. Not sure u can call a lack of vision bring in someone who ensures we stay up. Our long suffering fans have been suffering long for 40 years or more and some of us have been repeating your last sentence since then
What a load of tosh! What about the other teams who have squandered leads? Where would they be now? As for Moyes, it never works second time round. He wasn’t that great the first time.
Bit misleading as it doesn’t allow for changed results of other teams who led a match they lost.