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!!
Ok so now the dust has settled our midfield looks like Kante Orford Alvarez Magassa Engels Soucek Mukasa PICK THREE PLEASE
Orford? It is going to be a long old season. Everyone will play a part. Expect Jarrod Bowen to be played into the ground but everyone else has cover/relief.
Orford will be back very shortly.
Even Bowen might get a break now we have signed Austbo
I bet Orford is the latest to fall out with the Ultimate Man Manager
OMG the Greek disaster is back in the team!
I want to give the guys a chance to find their feet and get a grip on what it takes to win in the Championship BUT why on earth would you pick Pablo to start? He is awful and will struggle in this league too.
Because he does a good job he is a clever player and if he scored 20 goals a season he would have been sold for 80 million he is a decent N0.10
Hmmmmmmm, I’m not overly hopeful…
Perhaps they’re trying to sell Orford same as all the other youth players for the pure profit.
Orford has done a really good job and put himself in with a chance at the first team and if we start winning games he will get the minutes
Nuno has to go . Kilman and Scarles …. OMG that is horrendous. Golombeckis and Veltman both offer much much more. I assume Tati is off today because even Nuno can’t pick Pablo in front of him . ⚒️⚒️
Kilman has been our best c/b so far This season Scarles will make mistakes because he is learning but he is getting better and Mavro has more experience than Golembeckis. Taty played on Saturday so he is getting a rest. Pablo is a better player than people think.
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!
calm down please!!!!!!!
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
Indeed i truly believe we are going to do really well plus we have 147 million in the bank
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
Really good points loads have left loads have come in youngsters all trying to play a part we are adapting and it might take a little bit of time but so far we have played five championship teams won 2 drawn 2 lost 1 i mean it aint terrible is it?
When your 19ty in the cship table and struggling Why not drop your leading scorer🤣
I totally understand what your saying but if results had gone better i think he may well have rested Castellanos on Saturday and saved him for today maybe Nuno was feeling the pressure and making decisions based on the negativity around the club
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.
Agreed Jeeps. Golambeckis should be ahead of.kilman in the pecking order.
Orford not even on the bench?
nope.