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    West Ham vs Wolves -- June 20th, 2020

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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 7:35 am


    Yup... a minutes's silence and a knee for those that have been systematically disenfranchised.

    It's so disheartening to take even a cursory, fleeting trip around the barest minimum of footballing social media and see the numbers of - 'scuse my french - just complete cunts out there who follow the game.

    we're living through seismic changes in society that should have been acknowledged and dealt with years before - but now is as good a time as any to try to fix the problems that have caused so much pain and suffering to so many of our fellow human beings.

    Yes... we are back.

    For how long? Who knows? How will it go? Same answer. Is this a temporary change in circumstances or the new normal? Your guess is as good as anyone's.

    So... we still have that fupping idiot M*yes in charge... we still have the GSB brand dragging us further and further into the mire...
    I can't wait until we're rid of all of them - and as much as it pains me to even think t - if it takes relegation to get shot of them... then maybe it's not the worst thing in the world.

    And then there's the shitshow that is the current West Ham team... what exactly has this enforced 100 day shutdown done for us fortunes?

    Honestly... until a ball is kicked... all bets are still off...

    villa somehow managed to bollox up the whole VAR system and sneak a valuable 0-0 draw for a point...

    norwich looked as woeful as they had when the season was still on it's regular schedule and did us all a favor by getting stuffed by Soton.

    and then there's those white hart and boys hoping to be buoyed by the return to first team action of their talismanic Harry Kane - and they couldn't even manage to beat ManUre....

    and now there's us. Ngakia was one of the bright spots of the piss poor season this far but apparently doesn't want to stay with us - and given the arseholes running the club, I can't say I blame him no matter how dispiriting it might be to see a bright young talent want to go somewhere else.
    The days of feeling any sympathy, longing or obligation to the club really are long long gone.

    By the time we take to the pitch tomorrow, two more games will have been completed, two games that will have a major bearing on our fortunes as the stumbling, staggering season crawls to a close...

    Brighton and Watford, the teams supplying the bread to the West Ham sammich are in action - fortunately not against each other, so there is the possibility that Leicester and Arsenal can do us an immense favor and consign them both to losses... but relying on other teams is not something we should need to do to at all..

    So... by 9:30am Los Angeles time we could be in a position to put ourselves three points ahead of Watford and level on points with Brighton (I know... I know... how low are our hopes, sights and expectations these days??????)

    But all of that pre-supposes we can actually beat the Wanderers of wolverhampton - and there's not been much sign of that lately...

    MATCH FACTS

    Head-to-head

    Wolves have won the past three meetings, with West Ham failing to score in any of those games.
    Wolves have also won on two of their last three league visits to West Ham.

    West Ham United

    West Ham have lost five of their past seven Premier League games, and won just one of nine.
    Their tally of 16 league defeats in 2019-20 is already as many as they lost in the whole of both the previous two seasons.
    The Hammers have dropped 22 points from winning positions this season, more than any other Premier League side.
    They haven't won back-to-back league games at the London Stadium since September.
    West Ham have lost seven of their 14 Premier League home fixtures this season (D3, L7), the most since suffering eight defeats during their inaugural campaign at London Stadium in 2016-17.

    Wolverhampton Wanderers

    Wolves are unbeaten in five league matches (W2, D3).


    Yeah... that's how scary and underwhelming we are going into this game...

    so buckle up buttercups... we're all in for a bumpy ride.



    All of which is my way of saying... oh yes... you might have had 100 days to yourselves... but yeah... the darkness aint lifting yet... because I'm back.


    I'll see you all in the morning.
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 5:25 pm


    well here we go... barely even settled down with htecoffee following a dog walk and what assaults my eyes?

    fupping Arsenal lost to Brighton. It was 1-1 when I glanced at the score as we left the house... but somehow fupping Arsenal conspired to throw the game away n jury time...

    Now I gotta go check whether Leicester did the deed or not...

    uh... fupp me... Leicester couldn't win either...

    So here we go... first day back of the remainder of the season

    Brighton are now 5 points ahead of us and a point below Watford - so a draw won't do anything except leave us in 17th place - exactly where we are when M*yes was re-installed...

    ugh........................!!!!!!
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 5:30 pm


    Team line-up....

    A very suntanned Noble leads us out - so we've obviously learned nothing about controlling a midfield.

    I mean is it a victory? We've been given special dispensation to use our bubble machine....


    Ogbonna has a hamstring injury... weird COVID side effect... but this IS West Ham...

    West Ham United:
    Fabianski,
    Ngakia,
    Rice,
    Diop,
    Cresswell,
    Noble,
    Soucek,
    Antonio,
    Fornals,
    Felipe Anderson,
    Bowen.

    Subs: Balbuena, Yarmolenko, Lanzini, Wilshere, Fredericks, Ajeti, Randolph, Johnson, Xande Silva.

    I mean... it's as 'strong' a line-up as we've got. Doesn't mean it necessarily inspires any hope.

    The one good thing is that Traore isn't actually starting - but he's there to come on
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 5:33 pm


    Well the OS is a big empty soulless bowl - so no changes there.

    A minute silence for the people we've lost to COVID and the people who've stepped up to help out.

    A knee from everyone in support of Black Lives Matter



    wolves kick off
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 5:35 pm


    2 1/2 minutes and we get our first bit of possession and give it straight back to Wolves
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 5:37 pm


    apparently Haller is out with a hip injury....


    what happens to us?


    we've lost 15 of our last 22 games.


    even if we draw today we could drop into the relegation zone if bournemouth pick up a win.


    5 minutes gone - we've had maybe 20 seconds of possession...
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 5:38 pm


    Wolves are faster, stronger, more determined...

    we're barely in it at all at the moment.
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 5:40 pm


    Rice has been dropped back to Centre Back so the midfield is Noble and ??????

    we're out numbered 3-2 in midfield, especially as the third man is Anderson who's the apparent link up between the midfield and the lone striker of Antonio.

    we can't even clear a corner... just trot the ball out and give it away and conceded another corner...
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 5:41 pm


    playing the ball out from the back we're easily bundled off it and Wolves run it straight back into the box.

    comms calls it a 'worrying start in terms of intensity for the Hammers'

    and I couldn't agree more.
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 5:43 pm



    West Ham throw results in.... Wolves possession


    for some reason the system of a lone striker is not working for us... someone dredge up the ton of posts where I've pointed out that one up front does not work for us...
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 5:44 pm


    Cresswell gets a header to concede a corner as we're easily over run on the wing...

    this is as bad a performance as we've put in under M*yes... and that's saying something.
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 5:47 pm


    oh wow... a ball over the top and Fornals is one on one with the keeper... and...


    and he volleys the ball straight into the sky... doesn't even hit the stands... just straight up... might have been a danger to planes heading into Silvertown...

    of course... Wolves now have another corner... Fab punches away...

    felipe Anderson runs out with the ball and is easily dispossessed on the half way line and Wolves come at us again...
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 5:50 pm


    Hammers free kick... of course, we only have Antonio n the box and unsurprisingly the mass of Wolves defenders aren't even the least bit stressed
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 5:52 pm


    Ngakia does his first hitting right... the ball comes out to Soucek (who's only on loan) but his shot is deflected wide... so - our first corner.
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 5:53 pm


    pointless....

    bit of argy bargy in the box with Antonio and defender... so the Ref blows the whistle while the ball is still in the air...

    poor officiating and a waste of a corner.
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 5:54 pm


    holy shit... Jack Wilshere is warming up... I mean - could you be any more desperate than to have him as your life saver?
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 5:56 pm


    halfway through the half... West Ham free kick taken by Noble...

    it goes nowhere...

    Players get the now mandatory water break - does anyone know the "logic" behind this?
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 5:59 pm


    possession stats 62-38 and not in our favor as Wolves get in behind us down the wing - as per usual.
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 6:03 pm


    we have no shape, no style, no apparent game plan...

    here's a classic example...

    Wolves have the ball down by the corner flag at our end... we bundle in players and eventually Anderson digs the ball out...

    anderson plays the ball ahead of him to Antonio... but it's a slow ball so Antonion has to check back to get the ball - which means Wolves are able to get on top of him...

    But antonio is a beast and charges through and down the wings...

    So our lone striker is running down the wing.... and Anderson... who played the ball to him... just jus forward... so by the time Antonio is in position to cross the ball into the box, Anderson is still 20 yards away from the penalty area... being of absolutely no use to antonio at all.

    Soucek is at least running into the middle of the asa but because no one is keeping up with Antonio - the cross is headed out by the wolves defense and we have to go defend again...


    It's honestly like anderson either a: has no idea how football is played or b: couldn't give a shit
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 6:05 pm


    Jeez... Wolves are just lining up to shoot on goal.

    Another wolves corner.
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 6:06 pm


    possession states are now 63-37.... and still not in our favor


    West Ham goal kick ends ip out of play, Wolves get possession again.
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 6:07 pm



    we're taking less points per game under M*yes than we were under Pellegrini
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 6:15 pm


    5 minutes to half time... somehow we're not behind...

    It's been a typical M*yes-lead piss poor performance... no shape, no spirit, no tactics... a lack of energy, enthusiasm
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 6:17 pm


    giving Wolves too much space to just wander around in... Anderson just strolling around on his own...

    Antonio struggling manfully to win possession but he's got no one in support, no one to pass too...

    again... West Ham are on national TV here in the States and doing absolutely zero to convince anyone that "soccer" is a worthwhile sporting experience or that we're anyone to be shown even passing interest...
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    Post  westhamonkey Sat 20 Jun 2020, 6:18 pm


    first half over.

    we are shit.

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