West Ham away (PL) Match Reaction Thread

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

West Brom, Norwich, Liverpool, Swansea, Spurs and West Ham

Although I think more worrying is the amount of times we have conceded the first goal and ended up dropping points and not just this season but the last few, we have conceded the first goal nine times this season and gone on to win twice (both against Leicester).

[Letters]

West Brom, Norwich, Liverpool, Swansea, Spurs and West Ham.

Yep, that's the list I got. Although both the Spurs games see-sawed a bit and we were down to 10 men vs Spurs.
The West Brom, Norwich and Swansea ones weren't good enough. These things are going to happen though, it would be interesting to compare that against other sides.
Interesting about our bouncebackability, or lack thereof.

[Power n Glory]

Yep, that's the list I got. Although both the Spurs games see-sawed a bit and we were down to 10 men vs Spurs.
The West Brom, Norwich and Swansea ones weren't good enough. These things are going to happen though, it would be interesting to compare that against other sides.
Interesting about our bouncebackability, or lack thereof.

Is there a point to comparing them to other teams? If we're going to compare ourselves to previous title holders, they've had shit seasons and the managers have been sacked or will be. Also, we need to looking internally rather than outside to others because it's another 'disappointing' season and we're saying it's not good enough. It's unlikely Chelsea, City and Utd will have another season like this but we're more than likely to have a season where we're ending up in the 70 points bracket at the end of the season.

[Özim]

Wenger doing his press conference now, this line

Boss: "West Ham have beaten many big teams at home. We were not happy with the result but we showed resilience."

https://twitter.com/Arsenal/status/720889402595999744



Blowing a 2 goal lead and getting wrecked by Andy Caroll is showing resilience eh

The guy wouldn't know what resilience is if it smacked him in the face, when we needed to be resilient and grind results out we bottled it and dropped points left right and center.

[Özim]

What are Cech, Sanchez and Ozil then?

We probably could have signed them without CL football if we offered them enough money and ambition.

[Özim]

Well, no. But having had that happen we did at least get our shit together, equalize and get a point which is more than Spurs did there.

a) Spurs are above us
b) We were two goals up and gave away 3 goals in what 8 minutes (really unprofessional) so getting a goal to level it up is nothing to ride home about especially in a game we had to win.

[Özim]

I don't know about lucky but regardless of what happened on the opening day West Ham have been very solid at home this season. They lost 2 early games to Leicester and (bizarrely) Bournemouth and they haven't lost in the league since.
Going 2-0 up and then drawing is bad but on the other hand after collapsing to 3-2 we did at least get a point. Overall a draw there isn't a bad result.

In brief there are some positive and some negative aspects of the result, the mood is so sour right now though that everyone obsesses about the latter, any mention of anything else is met with howls of derision. Meh.

A draw is a terrible result after leading 2-0, especially when we absolutely had to win after the disastrous run we put together. There's no positives to the draw, it's useless to us.

[Power n Glory]

The guy wouldn't know what resilience is if it smacked him in the face, when we needed to be resilient and grind results out we bottled it and dropped points left right and center.

I disagree. Every time he signs a new contract and hangs on to his belief that his way is the right way.

[Özim]

This team lost the right to claim brownie points for resilience months ago. It's meaningless.

Meaningless to anyone but Wenger and his sympathisers. Wenger is the king of hailing irrelevant runs/results and underplaying the results that really matter.

[Letters]

A draw is a terrible result after leading 2-0, especially when we absolutely had to win after the disastrous run we put together. There's no positives to the draw, it's useless to us.

ZIM NOT FINDING ANYTHING POSITIVE TO SAY SHOCK EXCLUSIVE