Dregen57
Active Member
This forum is even worse than Twitter. Bye.
Well, in this case I don't feel there is a need to be too positive. Still, I am happy that we won. Always nice to see us score goals. Especially the first one was a peach!You’ve taken great care to cautiously highlight a small number of good points from todays victory but there is not really much point as anyone who didn’t pray for a thumping loss will be immediately branded an Arteta loving zealot.
No grey areas on this forum.
You don’t want Xhaka as your deepest midfielder he is a red waiting to happen as he has no pace to recover if he is out of position disaster coming. That is the crux of the Chaka problem he isn’t either a good 6 nor a good 8; it is like being asked do you wish to be stabbed in the groin or through the eyeball, it is not a multiple choice question you want either outcome resulting.
Don't understand why Partey is the deep midfielder and not xhaka.
Let's wear our tag lines as badges of honour for fighting the good fight!I remember when people on here used to make excuses for why we lost, now they make excuses when we win. Place is done. **** hole.
And yet I've got some cryptic 'looking for excuses' thing under my avi... The way it's worked out is poetic.
No, under no circumstances must we forget that!Summed up well, but don't forget they lost both their keepers and had to draft in a 40year old at the last minute.
Don’t leave Drago, I love your posts,This forum is even worse than Twitter. Bye.
Yeah I actually watched the replay. We started sloppy but slowly by slowly regained control and had a patch of nice Man City esque football. Worth the watch!Yes. We scored one nice goal playing out from the back quickly. Martinelli and Saka hit the uprights. It was closer to 4-0 than 3-1. Nice to see a win again. Doesn't change much in my view but always nice to score 3 and keep a clean sheet. Southampton are poor though and we half invited them into the game in the beginning. Once we scored it was pretty easy sailing.
He only need to do his job of covering and pass from deep these things he very good at imo. Getting him up to pitch will cause lose possession alot like what happen today and get us exposed in midfield doesn't matter tho because Thomas been average lately so won't make big difference who should do job of holding midfielder both of them need to get performance to good level quickly.Problem with Xhaka is if he stays back he'll get in Gabriel and Whites way and takeover their distribution shifting our average position back as he's not in midfield
Oh, I see, that's why you don't have a downer on Arteta even though we've been playing mid table stuff for 3 seasons, you're including all the times the players got near the opposition box and didn't get a shot off as goals we could have had. Fair enough.Its not just about shots. Martinelli & Laca failed to get shots off when they should have.
Saka who did get one off that was saved could have squared to Laca for a tap in.
Sometimes players just simply make the wrong decisions when on the ball, This young team seem to do it more than most tbh but they will hopefully improve. Well thats what i want anyway
Your 'football brain' seems to lack some understanding about making the most of situations?
Perhaps because these incidents do not show up in your stat wet dream you simply dismiss them & make out they didnt happen.
If not you simply choose to because you have an agenda.
Moyes is an experienced coach now and his time (and perhaps level) has come. I view him as the East London Emery - I just don’t think the fan base would accept him or someone like him and I don’t think he’d”succeed” as we u dear stand it, I certainly don’t see the point of switching Arteta for this kind of manager. We’re a very big club but with have suffered for years now with a sub optimal mix of ownership, management and funding. That’s not a criticism of Arteta, Emery or even Wenger (the only one of those I actively wanted sacked in the end was Emery), just a fact…It also says a lot about how phenomenally coaches West Ham is
i just like to try to see the positives bro . I see a young team who will have ups & downs. Life has been sh!tty enough tbh the last couple of years with the pandemic. I am really not looking to be going on a downer bout football.Oh, I see, that's why you don't have a downer on Arteta even though we've been playing mid table stuff for 3 seasons, you're including all the times the players got near the opposition box and didn't get a shot off as goals we could have had. Fair enough.
So you're effectively rewriting the definition of 'big chances' and 'xG' in your own little head. Well all is clear now, my bad. What' you going to call it 'Blankety Bank's expected goal'? I bet we're a lot higher than the real xG table bro.
Still a U shaped pass map. Arteta must look at these and realise there‘s very little interplay between those front three.
This might be the highest I've ever seen Laca on one of these.
Still a U shaped pass map. Arteta must look at these and realise there‘s very little interplay between those front three.