West Ham (A) Premier League - 31/1/21 - 16:30

[Elite]

Nat Phillips looking our most dangerous attacker.

[Jordy Brouwer]

Sideways, backwards, slow, backwards, sideways again. Turgid possession football. 

[diamondjoe]

Big Div, fuck me he is one lazy footballer.

[Jairzinho]

Couple of very evenly matched sides pushing on for a Europa League spot here.

[suzy]

Tyler needs pensioning off

[Daisy]

Origi off. Jones or Minamino on. 

 

Phillips done everything you'd hope of him. Yes he's clumsy but he's aggressive and wins challenges. 

[Moo]

Too casual all over the pitch, not just Origi.

[diamondjoe]

Bobby and taki on for me Rex.

[BeefStroganoff]

Can we buy someone who can beat a man this summer? We are playing ultra defensive teams week in week out.

[3 Stacks]

That was fine given the lineup. Midfield good, defense good. Origi is trying. I'm not really sure what Shaqiri is supposed to be doing. He's been a disappointment. 

[an tha]

Origi has to come off - he plays 2 seconds behind everyone else.

 

With this much possession, creating fuck all of note is criminal.

 

Get Firmino on, with this much of the ball he might be able to link something for us.

[Jairzinho]

Phillips our best player by some distance.

 

Which is depressing.

[Bruce Spanner]

4 minutes ago, Colonel Bumcunt said:

Strikes me he's not taking any chances of injuring himself, like he doesn't want to ruin a potential move we don't know about yet. 

A move he’s been waiting on for eighteen months? 

[Colonel Bumcunt]

This is Special Olympics stuff. 

Bless the lad. 

 

[magicrat]

1 minute ago, suzy said:

Tyler needs penising off

fixed

[Creator Supreme]

1 minute ago, BeefStroganoff said:

Can we buy someone who can beat a man this summer? We are playing ultra defensive teams week in week out.

I thought Thiago was brought in to unlock these teams?

[an tha]

1 minute ago, suzy said:

Tyler needs pensioning off

He is desperately cheerleading for Antonio to get clean through.

 

Its embarrassing.

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

Decent half that, except that we’re not creating clear cut chances. Very please that we’ve limited them to only a couple of opportunities to counter. 
 

Need to keep it up, but get Shaqiri more involved in the space behind their two DMs. And play it early in behind them every chance we get.

[KevieG]

We've controlled the game, Philips has done well. But zero cutting edge up front. Origi, I just don't get his attitude. 

[dockers_strike]

Young Nat hasnt put a foot wrong, how the obese Moss doesnt think that's a foul on him when going forward in the last minute of the half baffles me.

 

Not sure if I saw Div tweaked something when he went sprinting after the ball around 23 or 24 minutes and he didnt look to run much in the rest of the half.

 

We look a bit toothless up front, plenty of possession but not a lot of end result. Going to a bit of a nailbiting 2nd half while we havent scored.

[Captain Howdy]

God I wish this season would just end.

[TheDrowningMan]

All the play, but West Ham look more dangerous. Just get any fucking CB Klopp would trust to play alongside Phillips or Henderson so we can put Fabinho back in midfield whenever he returns and we can still compete for fourth as long as we get 6 points from the next four, this game included.

[BeefStroganoff]

1 minute ago, Creator Supreme said:

I thought Thiago was brought in to unlock these teams?

Thiago is not a dribbler. We need someone like Coutinho. Can beat a few players, can let rip from 40 yards. We try to constantly pass around deep blocks and this season it aint working.

[Preston Red]

Nat reminds me of the caddy in Happy Gilmore

[Supremolad]

Phillips has done reasonably well. He isnt as awful on the ball as many people think. Played a few good long balls and even went on a couple Matip-like runs. Because he looks gangly, people tend to exaggerate his supposed deficiencies. 

 

Origi on the other hand ? *sigh*. Really hope we can get Firmino on for him right after the break.