Amidst the chaos of deadline day with West Ham still hoping to bring in a left back and a central defender, preparing for one of the season’s more difficult clashes is not easy with the transfer window still ‘live’.
Promotion favourites Wolves come to London for an early season litmus test of former coach Nuno Espirito Santo’s tactical acumen: The Wolves are sitting second with seven points, unbeaten this season which contrasts starkly with West Ham’s two draws and a loss so far.
Whether Nuno saw the same issues as we did last weekend will be apparent from his starting line up: Surely Lewis Orford will make the starting eleven ahead of the more erratic Mohamadou Kante?
And will Nuno change his set up to accommodate both new midfield signings Divine Mukasa and Arne Engels?
The team to start has just been released and it is as follows: The one big question is – where is Taty Castellanos – cue the deadline day conspiracy theorists.
And, joking aside, on reflection, where is Lewis Orford? no even on the bench. Not injured, left out. How to destroy a youngster’s confidence.
West Ham United
Hermansen | Walker Peters, Mavropanos, Kilman, Scarles | Bowen, Engels , Mukasa, Solomon, | Pablo, Piroe
Pssst – Taty’s on the bench so unlikely to be heading off for a medical somewhere!
We’ll have player ratings and a report after the game along with any late transfer window updates, of course, so check back after the final whistle. Come On You Irons!!
Where is Orford???
I see we are starting with the fantastic CB partnership of Kilman & Mavrapanos 🙄. We are 1-0 down already! Does NN never learn? No Golambekis or Orford starting either. Let me guess he’s going 442 aswell?we’re doomed, doooomed I tell thee!
Golambeckis, Veltman, Orford and Taty should be starting, for me. Maybe Mayers too.
Well that’s another 3 points lost with this lineup
NES must be an agent provacateur sent to destroy whu
No sign of Alvarez have Arsenal erroneously signed him as a centre forward ? 😊⚒️⚒️
He hasn’t got a scooby🤡
In a few more games we may see a bright picture, give the team a chance, it’s still very early days
Not against the idea of rotating Taty and Piroe to keep them fresh. Presumably Orford injured, interesting to see Mukasa in a deeper role rather than Kante. This is a big test for us tonight but might bring out the best in us for a change.
In all fairness why would anyone who has no inside information on players data understand team tactics. Wolves play a different way to Watford and many other teams in the division. The fact is that is why Nuno is the manager and gets paid to make decisions. Get of the blokes back. This is not a easy league and we will do well to get top 6
When your 19ty in the cship table and struggling Why not drop your leading scorer🤣
After all this time we still don’t understand NES and his tactics. Does he? Do the players?
Never mind Taty what about Areola?
Golambeckis should be starting.
Orford not even on the bench?
nope.