With West Ham fielding an injury – affected side, Nuno had limited permutations owing to Jean Clair Todibo and Lucas Paquetá’s injuries, along with Diouf and Wan Bissaka being at AFCON. As it is, Kyle Walker Peters passed a fitness test and played.
Starting Wilson, Summerville and Bowen from the start may have been forced on Nuno, but it set out West Ham’s stall to be more aggressive and try and score whilst Wilson was ‘fresh’ knowing that new acquisition Pablo sat on the bench to reinvigorate the Hammers attack in the second half. Well, that was the observation before the kick off whistle blew…
West Ham soundly beaten by bottom side Wolves – without even a whimper
Nuno’s terrible defenders continued in their predictable, dreadful form as West Ham went two down: Surely the Premier League’s worst duo were exposed by Magassa’s awful errors this afternoon and the Hammers looked down and out after half an hour: Each Wolves attack looked likely to score, yet every West Ham ponderous build up was snuffed out.
Mavropanos’ casual defending for the third was embarrassing, frankly. I’d rather see Golambeckis and Igor Julio. Three down after forty minutes, Nuno shellshocked with his 1000 yard stare : All the possession in the world won’t help West Ham’s woes with that pair of centre backs.
Nuno needed a miracle at half time to instil some desire, some passion and some fight in this team who looked like they couldn’t care less. Surely the second half couldn’t be worse. West Ham replaced Magassa and Potts with Soucek and Ezra Mayers for the second half in a formation switch that looked as if Scarles and Soucek were part of a four man midfield.
Still no driving forward, no urgency. Ollie Scarles apart, did anybody on the pitch actually care? Nuno’s changes had zero impact. West Ham huffed and puffed without troubling Wolves’ keeper. This was like watching a game with eleven payers all waiting for someone else to create the spark – even the normally lively Jarrod Bowen seemed detached, disinterested even.
Zero motivation, zero tactical guile and zero results: A big fat zero for Nuno and If I were the Portugese I’d be looking over my shoulder just now: A spineless defence appears to be spreading its attitude of passivity throughout the team. 60% possession and NO shots on target.
If Nuno cannot motivate this team which is, on this showing, heading towards the championship, then, like Potter before him, he is failing.
I’m unsure where I sit with the owners. They are fans and I doubt any new buyer would share those views. The club’s identity is probably therefore better protected with the current owners.
BUT my big issue is the long term future of the club.
By selling the ground they have stripped the club of its main asset. I’m assuming they haven’t preserved the cash to apply towards a new ground?
Who is realistically therefore going to buy the club with no ground and no cash?
The 99 year lease at the London Stadium will eventually end – and then what? No one will want to be left owning the club at that point.
Losing to the ONLY side in the premier league without a win this season is just so West Ham. Before the game my heart was saying we will win but my head was saying don’t be f*ckin stupid you have followed the Hammers long enough to know exactly what is going to happen! And it did of course. We are going down because most of our players either don’t give a toss, or simply ain’t good enough. Surely 3 managers can’t all be bad? It’s the players.
I agree totally – the only thing I would say is that when you have two such awful centre backs it destabilises everything.
Its breathtaking that firstly Lopetegui wanted Kilman for £40m and got him likewise Todibo. Then Potter didn’t push to sort out the CBs and set up this problem for the season.
Like the Roeder season when we got relegated because of useless CBs ( and goalkeeper) with a brilliant midfield and front line it’s impossible to win enough games if you easily conceed soft goals.
Terrible performance. The team wernt at the races- we know they are limited but even by our low expectations they were poor. Scarles can’t take corner and his distribution was shocking. Potts was poor, Bowen and Summerville also- as for the defence…. But for areola could have been worse.
We are going down and I worry about our future in the championship.
Not sure regarding the manager-we can’t keep sacking the manager-we know where the real issues lie…
Very very sad
Why does it seem that every time we get a decent crop of youngsters we get relegated and have to sell them?
As far as Nuno’s style goes:his preference for parking the bus and having occasional counterattacks seems to be more fruitful than the utter failure with the possession based game he presented today (mainly the first half, although the second was hardly better). Poor individual performances and lack of attitude only compounded his unsolvable
problem.
I blame Nono for the terrible team selections at times but the largest share of the blame falls on Sullivan and co s shoulders my only hope is at the end of the season when we follow two more teams into the championship is that the board have the guts to apologise to the fans for every mistake they have made over their time of mismanagement and it is made on the centre circle of that running track they call our home
Never mind motivating the team how about some motivation from Nuno?
Not talking about running up and down the line just some movement.
Where did you get picture from with his arms open wide?
Normal stance is staring into space with arms crossed.
This has done nothing to enhance any players transfer to whu.
Laarson must be glad he’s no longer in frame to move to whu.
Better hope Cresswell wasn’t watching the game no inspiration for him.
Forest and Burnley losing should have done whu a favour but we didn’t take advantage.
New striker must be wondering if he should have stayed where he was!!
Sullivan needs to dig up another £50-£60m (includes bribe) to improve defence.
Everyone is angry and frustrated. The only consolation is that the manager, players , board and supporters now all know we are going down.
Time for some clear heads and to formulate a plan of how to get out of the championship. If that means selling some of our saleable assets now then so be it.
They’ve been planning for relegation since Sept
The new players and the kids minus Bowen and the Brazilian.
That’s Sullys way fwd
Get used to.it guys
In three games in the last few weeks we were winning when that clown took off Wilson after he was gone we dropped points in all 3 games. Today when we were losing 3-0 he keeps him on the pitch when we HAD a substitute striker on the bench so how anybody could think this guy is a premiership manager is beyond me. GET HIM OUT OF OUR CLUB before he sinks us any lower.
Time for another manager ?
For me Martin 3 nil down and frightened to go for it. Seems to love Kilman god knows why, should have put on more players make a bigger change. It looks like Nuno is a one trick pony, hasn’t got the players to play his way and has no idea how to play another way.
if ever there was a manager that needed to be sacked its Nuno, but it won’t/can’t happen since we have already sacked two managers in past 12 months. we are going down and with the financial chaos and fire sales that will follow it I really believe we could pass through straight to League 1 (we wouldn’t be the first to do this).
Where was a positive ?
Nobody even looked arsed.
This team constantly proves worse than even my meagre expectations of them, I predicted 1-1
Beyond that my sympathy is with the fans, particularly the travelling support who endured that.
Disgusting This team is going straight to division 3
Well some of us have said from the start that Nuno is not he man for this job, and that should be obvious to anyone by now. Let me know when you decide to stop making excuses for Scarles, sadly he is as tainted as the rest of this squad. I doubt if Bowen will be going to the World Cup next year, or that he will wear an England shirt again. On the plus side, I feel sorry for Fernandes, we are one game closer to coming out the other side of this nightmare and a lucky escape for Traore. Absolute garbage, and for now that is all we are going to get from this club.