WHUFC vs Huddersfield -- March 16th, 2019

and an absolute cracker of a goal...

three goals in a game for the first time this season...

I guess against the run of play... but hardly against the run of the game

lashes the ball in from outside the area... Fabianski gets a finger tip to it but it still goes in...

1-3

This is worse than the Cardiff game...

and now we bring off Arnie... he runs straight off the pitch and straight past the manager... boos greet the decision or the player... you tell me...

Perez replaces Arnie..

and Perez almost scores... but it's offside against Zabaleta...


Is this Arnie's last game?

this is a text book exercise in how NOT to track back, how to pressure an opponent and how to defend...

and another Huddersfield corner with a player completely unmarked in the box... fortunately it's too high so the layer can't head into the net... but it's the same old same old from the Hammers defense...

I'm a fairly erudite chap but I'm running out of words to describe how poor we are...

Less than 20 minutes to go

Ogbonna makes amends... power header from a corner (Huddersfield make the same mistake we've been making all day)

15 minutes to go...

2-3

well if nothing else we're raising our worldwide profile...

West Ham is trending on Twitter in Los Angeles for maybe the first time this season...

"Huddersfield have scored 16% of their goals for the entire Premier League season against West Ham today. #htafc #whufc"

Chicha... Chicharito....

another hopeless sequence of play... Nasri gets the ball on the far side... whips a high looping coross that goes over everyone's head... but then Chicharito is unmarked at the back... dives forward and heads into the corner of the net...


6 minutes to go and we're at 3-3

both teams have had 4 shots on target...

"84 mins
GOAL - West Ham 3-3 Huddersfield
Javier Hernandez
Switch off for a second and you get punished.

After Huddersfield partially clear the corner, they do not reset and are undone by Samir Nasri's superb cross from the right.

No-one is picking up Javier Hernandez and he stoops to head in the equaliser.

incredible!"

holy shit... that is the let off of all time...

almost impossible to describe what happened...

great diving save from Fabianski...

ball pings back into the box...

Zabaleta is standing around playing onside three Huddersfield players who are too stunned to actually do anything...

then they realize there is no whistle...

so they go for goal but end up putting the ball over the top...


5 minutes of aded time as the 90 ticks past...

and there it is... Chicharito... Chicharito....

corner... Anderson actually decides to pick out a player...

loops in a great ball to Hernandez who flicks it into the net...

3-4

the greatest comeback?

or the most undeserved comeback?

who the fupp knows...

Huddersfield almost score... goes out for a corner... this isn't over just yet...

this post just about sums it up perfectly...

"90+2 mins
GOAL - West Ham 4-3 Huddersfield
Javier Hernandez
Ridiculous!!"

never has a final whistle been more of a relief...

how did we do that?

I just hope none of the players (except Hernandez) delude themselves into thinking they did anything worthy of praise in this game...

it was a dire performance that had nothing good about it at all...

we were playing the worst team in the league... at home... needing a good performance after last week's debacle... and we were uniformly shit throughout the team...

Chicharito can hold his head high - one player out of the 14 who played to actually show some pride.

It also shows how vital Anderson is... when he was just wandering about as he usually does we weren't 3-1 down to the worst team in the league... when he stepped it up... we came back from 1-3 to 4-3

something needs to change in the psychological make-up of this team and it need to happen bloody quickly

That's enough from me.. I'm all a bit tired and emotional... I need to go walk the dog then watch England vs Scotland - and da iawn to the Welsh for winning the grand slam...

Well monkey thanks again for your efforts. A day of watching the six nations, so lots of mixed emotions as the paddy's couldnt do us a favour and two come backs in one day is a bit much, but Scotland's against England was something special. Got the sky version of our game to watch in tbe morning to see if your commentary was as accurate as it usually is. Stocked up with pan killers, morphine taken lets see if I can get any proper sleep tonight 

mottinghammer wrote:Well monkey thanks again for your efforts. A day of watching the six nations, so lots of mixed emotions as the paddy's couldnt do us a favour and two come backs in one day is a bit much, but Scotland's against England was something special. Got the sky version of our game to watch in tbe morning to see if your commentary was as accurate as it usually is. Stocked up with pan killers, morphine taken lets see if I can get any proper sleep tonight 

get some rest Motty... it's gonna be a bumpy ride...

westhamonkey wrote:

mottinghammer wrote:Well monkey thanks again for your efforts. A day of watching the six nations, so lots of mixed emotions as the paddy's couldnt do us a favour and two come backs in one day is a bit much, but Scotland's against England was something special. Got the sky version of our game to watch in tbe morning to see if your commentary was as accurate as it usually is. Stocked up with pan killers, morphine taken lets see if I can get any proper sleep tonight 

get some rest Motty... it's gonna be a bumpy ride...

Monkey you were so right! The defending was shambolic at best Zabaletta was a great player but he is a liability now. Ogbonna scored a great header, but his defending was woeful. Anderson was rubbish, Arnie a waste of space(gone in summer definitely) I thought Antonio was doing ok but then he made a series of mistakes near halftime thatgot him lifted. Chicarito has got to start as at least he looks more likely to scorethan Arnie. Some major rebuilding of the defence needed, Balbunea needs to start instead of Ogbonna and Fredricks should be in for Zab. 
Gonna be a tough end to tbe season, manure, cheatski and spuds away.  Getting nowt there, so will nedd our home form to stay strong just to keep in the top half.

mottinghammer wrote:
Monkey you were so right! The defending was shambolic at best Zabaletta was a great player but he is a liability now. Ogbonna scored a great header, but his defending was woeful. Anderson was rubbish, Arnie a waste of space(gone in summer definitely) I thought Antonio was doing ok but then he made a series of mistakes near halftime thatgot him lifted. Chicarito has got to start as at least he looks more likely to scorethan Arnie. Some major rebuilding of the defence needed, Balbunea needs to start instead of Ogbonna and Fredricks should be in for Zab. 
Gonna be a tough end to tbe season, manure, cheatski and spuds away.  Getting nowt there, so will nedd our home form to stay strong just to keep in the top half.

Couldn't agree more