I doubt we will show 'bouncebacability'. I do however expect that we will at some point put a decent run in, look great at times doing it and finish in the lower end of the CL places.
I doubt we will show 'bouncebacability'. I do however expect that we will at some point put a decent run in, look great at times doing it and finish in the lower end of the CL places.
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Maybe, but I wouldn't be so sure. This season (and season 2018/19) in the cycle is the one where we start dreadfully and are about 8th place by December and then finish like a train to finish 4th. Next season (and season 2019/20) are the ones to dread when we start in title winning form and crumble after Xmas.Originally Posted by McNamara That Ghost...
We've got plenty more bad games to endure yet in the next few months before the good times come along in 2016.
It seems to me that our problems seem to stem more from playing at home than away from home.
I think it's abundantly clear that there was a lack of preparation going into today's match, and the performance was as flat as the defeat to Swansea and the draw with Sunderland, where the away team will defend in numbers and let us have the ball because they are confident we will do nothing with it.
Letters talks about the frustration of a goalkeeper in form, but how many times did we test Adrian before going 2-0 down?
In the game against Swansea last season it was a similar story, 65 minutes before we register a shot on target
He's clueless when it comes to maximising the effect of what has gone before. And he's a sea of contradictions. We'll go top of a CL group and then blow it by putting out a fucked up team selection, we lose and finish second, we draw Barcelona in the last 16. That's Wenger all over, resting players when they need to be playing, playing them when they have already been run into the ground, sticking with out of form players, dropping form players. Random bumbling as if he knows what the fuck he is doing, when after 10 years of watching it we know for a fact he doesn't have a clue.What does that even mean? We won pretty much everything in pre-season, how much more momentum do you need?
Today was another balls up, how many sodding games are we going to have where their 'keeper is suddenly brilliant and the opponents score with literally every shot on target?
Anyway, we cannot afford another start like last season, have to show some bouncebackability and go on a run now.
Ox builds us an attacking outlet early in that game. Now either Ox decides to unilaterally change his role without permission, or the fool dives in and slams shut that single avenue we managed to establish. We were toothless after that. A kid at his first match could twig what was needed to build on that start. Wenger of course did the opposite and plunged us back into his horror ideal of tippy-tappy bullshit played out in front of a relaxing WH defence.
I wish the players would ignore him.
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We conceded 13 goals in the last 20 games last season IIRC and had the best defensive record across the leagues. For the first time in eons, we had a real classy and solid unit at the back and top keeper. Probably the only area on the entire pitch that we didn't need some improvement in, we fiddled around with.
on the game…
I think our performance was not convincing. On the two aspects of our game, going forward and defending. Overall we were punished. On top of that, I feel we gave two very cheap goals away and they were at the wrong moments - just before and after half-time with two minutes to go, and just after half-time. We gave ourselves a mountain to climb. West Ham looked a bit sharper than us, more advanced in preparation than us. In the end we wanted, but it was not convincing, not agile, not quick. Our passing was too slow and in the end we were punished.
on why it went wrong…
West Ham are a bit more advanced in their preparation than us. They’ve played many competitive games in the Europa League. I knew before game it would be tricky game on that front. A big part of it was not to concede, even if we played for a 0-0. The way we conceded the goal just before half-time, with experience we have in our team, is difficult to understand.
on weight of expectation. I felt we were a bit nervous and we rushed our game a bit. We didn’t always respect the basics. We wanted to be too quick going forward in first half. I don’t think we were too confident, I would rather say too nervous maybe.
on Petr Cech…
I haven’t spoken to him yet. I can’t see many individual convincing performances today so it’s difficult to single someone out.
on the goals…
I [haven’t analysed it] yet, no.
on not being incisive up front…
Our passing was not incisive enough. I bought Walcott on with 35 minutes to go and I had no time to bring him on. We conceded the second goal [before]. After that they defended deep and gained time - the usual thing you face when you play at home and are losing. I believe that we are maybe guilty at 0-0 of giving them a goal as soft as that.
on coming back from defeat…
It’s difficult but it’s part of our job. A successful season is how you respond to disappointments and it’s never a clear motorway. We have to respond quickly. We have a tricky start. Crystal Palace are a very good team, Liverpool are a very good team, and you could see again today that we are not completely there physically.
on the goal…
It was a collective one. I think there are many things to say about that. I knew that if the delivery was good, we would be in trouble before the free-kick was taken.
on conceding a set-piece…
The concentration and the organisation was not perfect. Positionally we were too far from our goal and gave them too much distance to run into. We killed ourselves.
on Cech and organisation…
Not only him. We have enough experience at the back. If you look at our back line, I think the youngest age is 30.
on transfers…
I would like to think that we are responsible to buy the players and the coaches, not the media. When you’re a pro footballer, you have to face your responsibilities and not always look at something else. Today we have to look at ourselves and think we were not good enough and not to think that these kinds of things are solutions for us. We were not good enough, we were not convincing. And that’s basically it. West Ham played well. Congratulations to them and hopefully we can bounce back quickly. Again, I can only repeat what I already said. If an exceptional solution turns up, we’ll do it. But after a defeat like that, it’s important not always to think we take a solution from outside.
on Reece Oxford…
He looked convincing but I need to watch it again. He did well. When we had the opportunities, our decision making was not always right, especially in the first half. We had made plenty of openings. Overall at 16 years of age it’s convincing what he did.
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West Ham were more prepared than us because they were in the Europa League
FFS, what are you paid £8m a year for then. Fuck offI knew that if the delivery was good, we would be in trouble before the free-kick was taken.
Alexis training after the game
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Sad, sad, sad, excuses.West Ham are a bit more advanced in their preparation than us. They’ve played many competitive games in the Europa League. I knew before game it would be tricky game on that front. A big part of it was not to concede, even if we played for a 0-0.
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And it's bollocks anyway, I work in an office with a load of West Ham fans (going to take my stripes like a man) and the one thing I know from their Europa league matches is that Bilic has been playing second string teams, and this was the first time he put out a team he considered his strongest XI.
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