West Ham (H) - EFL Cup Quarter Final, Wed 20th Dec 2023 (8:00pm)

[TD_LFC]

11 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

 

Getting Piers Morgan/Meghan Markell vibes here. 

 

It's ok to make a fair assessment of a players performance, the world won't split in two, people do it to other players with no qualms yet for Nunez everyone loses their minds.

 

He worked hard on the left, it was a far better performance than we've seen through the middle in the last few games, wasn't that threatening but put in the hard yards and deserves his place against Arsenal for it.

 

Or are you suggesting he was a massive attacking threat as well and I'm being unfair?

[suzy]

1 minute ago, Wezza said:

Nice touch from Gakpo re: Jones there during the post match 

Great wasn’t it? And Gakpo hasn’t been here long.

[Lee909]

No Mo or Endo for the semi finals with AFCON and Asian cup

[Kevin D]

The best team lost.

[Bjornebye]

Get this won Reds. It's what we do. Superb tonight. 

[stringvest]

12 minutes ago, El Rojo said:

Really impressive performance and the midfield carrying the heavy load with the goals.

 

Curtis Jones is a starter when fully fit. Gifted.

 

I'd love him to play like that regularly.  I think we have to acknowledge that the opposition just didn't put the effort in.  Kudos to Kudus, he was the exception.   We played well, but we still need to be more clinical in front of goal.  That could and should have been 10.

 

Moyes must have fallen out with most of that team, the bog-eyed herbert.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Just now, Lee909 said:

No Mo or Endo for the semi finals with AFCON and Asian cup

I bet you love telling young children that Santa doesn't exist.

[stringvest]

Just now, Carvalho Diablo said:

I bet you love telling young children that Santa doesn't exist.

 

He does exist, actually, he just lives deep in the fires of hell.  Oh hang on...

[bossy]

I’ve been very critical of Curtis Jones recently, my mate was taking the piss texting me. He was electric tonight. 

[Red Shift]

Nice early xmas, tha

[Mook]

2 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

 

It's ok to make a fair assessment of a players performance, the world won't split in two, people do it to other players with no qualms yet for Nunez everyone loses thir minds.

 

He worked hard on the left, it was a far better performance than we've seen through the middle in the last few games, wasn't that threatening but put in the hard yards and deserves his place against Arsenal for it.

 

Or are you suggesting he was a massive attacking threat as well and I'm being unfair?

 

I think it's more that you post about him constantly and it's always, always weighted against him.

 

He got a great assist & forced a brilliant save on to the post tonight, it's not like he was just running about doing hard work.

 

Take a couple of fucking days off maybe.

[Lee909]

2 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

I bet you love telling young children that Santa doesn't exist.

 

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

Good first half and very good second half. Besides Villa at home this was our best performance this season.

 

Pressing and intensity was excellent all over, which meant we restricted them to very few opportunities, and not least the pressing mean we turn defence into attack high up the field, which is an equally important benefit from it.

 

Hard to pick our man of the match, Tsimikas, Endo, Van Dijk, Nunez and Ellliott all very good. But Jones gets it from me. His attacking contributions are probably easiest to notice, but his running, pressing and energy off the ball is even more important to the team I reckon, and the reason why we won so many matches with him in the team at the end of last season. 
 

Also very nice to see Tsimikas improving game by game when given a run in the team. After his shocking display in the EL game he’s been very good.

 

Four bad performances in the league and 10 points, one very good performance tonight and through to the semis.

[Redder Lurtz]

I love seeing Curtis interviewed. Proper nice lad. 

[Bjornebye]

What a ridiculous question "Is 63 shots in two games good when the average is 13 a game?" Fucking hell 

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

2 minutes ago, Mook said:

 

I think it's more that you post about him constantly and it's always, always weighted against him.

 

He got a great assist & forced a brilliant save on to the post tonight, it's not like he was just running about doing hard work.

 

Take a couple of fucking days off maybe.

At least maybe give himself a self imposed limit of maximum 20 posts about Numez per day?

[Bjornebye]

4 minutes ago, stringvest said:

 

He does exist, actually, he just lives deep in the fires of hell.  Oh hang on...

 

Leave me out of this please mate 

[TD_LFC]

Easiest way for any player to have posts weighted for them is to play well consistently.

 

People can't wait for Salah to fuck up these days as some perceived defence of other players, it's weird.

[Reckoner]

I like it when we do a win

[Trumo]

Very good performance against a very passive West Ham. The intent was there from the beginning, and we were playing with poise and purpose, but just lacking the correct final ball or shot.

 

Moyes is never about playing on the front foot and taking the initiative, but his teams usually have a robustness about them. They were unbelievably passive tonight, to the point where I was wondering if something was up with their players. In the pre-match presser reports I saw yesterday, the assistant manager mentioned something about illness in the camp, so that might have had something to do with it. I just can't imagine they turned up completely not arsed, which is the other conclusion you could draw from the level of dominance we forced.

 

The number of times we could pick out a man just in the final third, and even more so the number of times we could just run at them while they backed off and backed off was something else. Even Joe drew a save from Areola after a lovely turn out wide on halfway followed by simply charging on unchallenged to fire an effort at goal. Curtis' second goal came after an unchallenged solo run, and even Ibou was allowed to easily breach the midfield line when setting up Cody for his goal.

 

Darwin badly needs a goal. He's not getting the breaks at the minute, but he has to keep plugging away.

 

5-1 is not a true reflection of our total dominance. West Ham were not even value for their 1.

[Reckoner]

12 minutes ago, suzy said:

Great wasn’t it? And Gakpo hasn’t been here long.

What did he do? Rim him?

[KMD7]

6 minutes ago, Redder Lurtz said:

I love seeing Curtis interviewed. Proper nice lad. 

 

I love him. Great lad.

[Barrington Womble]

A good night that. Plenty for players who need a confidence boost who got one. Jones plays himself into contention. Elliot shows he's maybe got a role to play there in AFCON. The whole left side was probably the best we've seen all season. And interestingly no hybrid right back. Could it be the same for Saturday, with Trent replacing endo? 

[Tarwater]

Endo, Harvey and Curtis star men. Thought Gakpo was poor, even if his goal was well taken.

[TD_LFC]

1 minute ago, Barrington Womble said:

A good night that. Plenty for players who need a confidence boost who got one. Jones plays himself into contention. Elliot shows he's maybe got a role to play there in AFCON. The whole left side was probably the best we've seen all season. And interestingly no hybrid right back. Could it be the same for Saturday, with Trent replacing endo? 

 

Like USG I think Endo came off because he's starting against Arsenal and Trent/Konate/Salah came on to get some minutes for the same reason.

 

Be very surprised if we didn't go back to the same system against Arsenal