West Ham V Manchester United FA Cup Quarter Final Replay

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West Ham will be without Diafra Sakho after manager  Bilic revealed the Senegal striker suffered a minor knee injury in training which is expected to keep him out for a week.

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This is the ninth time these sides have been drawn in the FA Cup - the previous eight have alternated between West Ham progressing twice and Man United progressing twice.


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Non-existent midfield first half. No brains in there, all just flying forward and leaving massive gaps in the middle. Fellaini wandering through the midfield and not one of them tracking him.

Glad to get in at 0-0.

I would question Slavens tactics because we got pulled apart for most of the match but you can't excuse the amount of players who probably had their worst game of the season tonight.

Just got in and very disappointed.
Mostly second best in midfield with Noble back to his poor self.
Best team won.
Bilic selection again cause us problems with worst display I've seen for a while.
Let's the fans down again.
How I hate Man Poo.

Im not Nobles biggest fan but Payet and Lanzini were worse than Noble, Kouyate probably his worst performance I've seen. They all attacked but for some reason had no desire to track back for the majority of the game. 


There were times where Payet had the ball in the left corner and had Lanzini, Noble and Kouyate all close to him, surely one of those players should have the brain power to think "if we lose it here we are in trouble"

I think also a lot of credit has to go to LVG. He came with a game plan to stop us and picked his team accordingly. It worked. 

After about 10 minutes I knew we were going to lose this fixture. We just couldn't get going. Perhaps the hype of being favourites got to the players and they were far too relaxed about it. 

Hopefully it will act as a wake up call for this weekends fixture.

I don't think we have played well in the last 3 games, hopefully some changes to freshen it up a bit.

Still think the wankers in the black have a lot to answer for , some very dodgy refereeing lately

Kray JR wrote:I don't think we have played well in the last 3 games, hopefully some changes to freshen it up a bit.

Not playing a rookie right winger at right back would be a start. Then not pairing Reid & Ogbonna as it clearly doesn't work. 29 goals out of 42 conceded when they have been the centre back pairing. Starting Valencia on the bench would help massively too. Give Obiang a chance in the middle. He tackles, tracks his man and moves the ball quickly. He is too good to get no game time. If we don't start playing him soon I fear he will leave

Wondering whether we should abandon the 433 and go more of a 4411 with Payet behind a front man. The massive hole in the middle of our midfield Wednesday really concerned me.

Kray JR wrote:Wondering whether we should abandon the 433 and go more of a 4411 with Payet behind a front man. The massive hole in the middle of our midfield Wednesday really concerned me.

Me too and it's not the first time either is it? I am happy with 4-2-3-1 as long as the 2 in front of the back four are disciplined enough to hold their positions and not get caught up field like Noble & Kouyate did on too many occasions on Wednesday. It will also free our full backs (one at a time) to get forward. They were stopped by the Man Utd front players on Wednesday and had little cover from our central midfield behind them

Adrian, Byram, Collins, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Noble/Obiang, Kouyate, Valencia Payet Lanzini & Sakho works for me. Carroll will be nullified by Huth and Morgan. They are not soft touches like the Arsenal or Man Utd centre backs. Keep him for last 20-30 mins if we need him

Let's see if Slaven has that in his locker