Everton vs West Ham Sept 16th, 2018

Snoddy gets our 5th yellow card scything down the Toffee player like the Grim Reaper...

free kick to everton just outside the area...

1 minute left...

Antonio holding the ball up like a champ

(or time wasting like you'd never believe)

but it doesn't matter...

that sound?

it's the sound of the final whistle...

it's the sound of the West Ham fans cheering...

it's the sound of a million bums finally unclenching...

4 shots on target... three of them goals...

we win for the first time this season... for the first time away since May...

our goal difference rises to minus 6

I think we're off the bottom of the table...

we could be top by Christmas at this rate...

well, job done

not gonna nitpick any of them

there's plenty of work need to be done

but we got what we needed...

now we just need more of the same... a lot more.

hope Arnie isn't too badly crocked...

thanks y'all for listening to me nonsense... what? wait... you weren't?

oh well...

back again next week.

Thanks monkey, after half time I couldn't watch. Came and had a lie down in a darkened room. Your up dates as my only contact with the real world!
Now only two wins away from Manure

Rice looked class, but the defence looked dodgy still. The front three look good and are playing offeach other now.
Tighten the back, get some invention in midfield and we can climb the table.
And relax

mottinghammer wrote:Thanks monkey, after half time I couldn't watch. Came and had a lie down in a darkened room. Your up dates as my only contact with the real world!
Now only two wins away from Manure

Rice looked class, but the defence looked dodgy still. The front three look good and are playing offeach other now.
Tighten the back, get some invention in midfield and we can climb the table.
And relax  

cheers Motty,

totally agree with you on all counts...

I know people are gonna hate me for picking on him... but we need a midfield boss and Nobes just isn't it. He's a good utility player... but we need a boss. Maybe Rice will grow into that role... but we certainly miss the big boss in the middle.

The defense is weird... they make some outstanding individual stops... but then can turn around as a group and leave us wide open...

Up top we're looking good, so long as Arnie stays fit.

It was a little depressing to see how much Yarmolenko faded... but maybe he just needs to play more.

Don't really want to get into nitpicking because overall we did well and got the result that we so desperately needed.

Next two games will - as always - be key... but it's West Ham, we are just as likely to play well against the top teams as get turned over by the bottom ones...

But a few more three pointers and we'll all be forgetting the horrendous start.

I`ve always said it was a matter of time before we Won a game as personally we haven`t played that poor in the four defeats. but yesterday we did what we hadn`t done in the previous 4 games and that was takeing our chances when they came. Who would of thought that we`d get back to back 3-1 wins against Everton.

I thought the front 3 linked up well and looked good especially Yarmelenko. Obiang and Rice looked really good and for me should stay in the team for the foreseeble future. Personally if wilshere is fit I`d have him replace Noble.

The defense looked okay and are certainly improving ... Maybe that has something to do with the fact that Pellegrini has stuck with pretty much the same centreback partnership for the last few games so Diop and Balbuena are starting to now understand each others positing etc.
Zabaleta looked alright as did Msuakuku on the otherside.

A good win. Rode our luck at the back sometimes but the team are starting to look good.

Great win for the 'Ammers ..... and such a relief for us fans and the club.

By all accounts, Pellegrini adjusted stuff in the middle and came up with a winning combination of Noble, Rice and Obiang. I'm so happy that our Mark is a part of it. 

Yarmalenko played his first start, and was entitled to be a bit knackered towards the end ..... playing time and getting himself up to full match fitness is all he needs.

Next up Chelsea ..... We need someone to organise the kidnapping of Hazard for a couple of hours 

COYI