Great goals from Trent and Divock. Really enjoyed those moments a lot. The rest I’ve already forgotten.
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Can not defend a corner, keep saying Alisson needs protection there was the proof he gets so easily sucked into to the physical nonsense. The second one was pityful.
To be honest we are our worst enemy we try stuff that isn’t on when too many players are pushed forward, oh and where is Matip?
Then our defense gets pulled out of position too easily. We need a defensive coach 
I thought we played well then just made the fatal error.
West Ham look like Chelsea with a Burnley edge.
I will give Thiago a pass today as he has just returned. But Ox, he should be benched once Thiago and Jones fully recover.
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How many times is that, we’ve scored 2 or 3 goals in a game and dropped points because we can’t defend?
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West Ham might be flying at the moment,
and we didint look like we were at our best
but if Alison hadnt played like he’d been out on the pish last night, we would have won.
thank fuck we dont have another game for 2 weeks
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Actually, at least a colander yields a tasty meal. Don’t want to eat what came out of our defense today.
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I am not close to giving up our title hopes yet. Too early, not big enough gap to 1st for that. Even so, it is not looking good. Inconsistency and we are not really close to the high level of our title winning season. But maybe it can change. I hope so and it is possible. Since I am a fan, I will continue to have some faith we can do it for now.
But of course, we have difficult rivals like Chelsea and City, so cannot really afford many games like this.
That is all, I feel no need to write about individual performances because so many were sub par, including our usually excellent keeper and our usually excellent striker, Mane; along with loads of other players.
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An off day against a good opponent in the PL you can losse on such a day.
Move on it is still a long were anything can happen
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A beautifully instinctive scuffed finish placed purposely into the corner after a sublime initial swivel take down.
Bollocks!
We needed some physical presence against Burnley copycats. Robbo and his selection had nothing to do with with why Alisson is more interested in stroking Antonio’s bum than taking the ball or Matip going missing, where was he?
Or both VVD and Matip getting pulled out of position too easily.
Thiago on the other hand didn’t look like a good replacement of AOC.
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Can’t defend because we play wide open which gives the opposition plenty of chances during a game. Too many chances been given away
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First time moyes has beaten us. Bloody frustrating given they should have had a red and Mane should have had two.
Still the problems today were tactical. In the first half we were all over them and did fuck all with the ball needing a player like thiago on. In the second we haf thiaho on but just gave up on effectively tracking back. Our defence has looked shaky all season. Think its time to drop a few yards deeper, vvd,matip, and Gomez have all had horrific and long injuries since the year we won the league and it is not a stretch to say accommodating the impact of those injuries by letting them stay a few yards inside our half will help them and still be able to pull of a high press. Bobby sorely missed up top, should shut up the ones who don’t want to admit he’s had a decent season so far for the most part. Robbo needs time on the bench, Tsimi is more than capable cover. We’ve lost our in game nous and it is frustrating to watch knowing were going to concede. Second league game in a row without a salah goal and the second we’ve dropped points in - he is pivotal to this team.
Said it earlier but a win every other game is not title winning form at all. I know it’s early doors but unless we buck up our ideas we aren’t winning the league. That said we seem to be doing much better in the cups than normal, a concerted push for a couple of trophies and a lacklustre league campaign will be forgotten, would be nice to come away with some kore silverware- these players are good enough.
On the plus both our goals were bangers and that’s about it really. We were shit, west ham weren’t great but better organised than us and got the result they deserved. Nothing more frustrating than losing to a team who were there for the taking (they had one good half we had one good half. They did a lot more with their good half).
Boohoo!
If there’s any consolation its that this came with only 11 games played.
But those were poor goals to concede, esp the setpiece goals.
Too many poor refs in the PL. Pawson is especially poor…He was sent to the monitor cus they felt it was a foul…then the Creswell tackle…
Shouldn’t have lost this game, notwithstanding our uneven performance. Not with the soft goals conceded and the chances missed by Mane…
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strategy was to engage Ali during corners. some one should have been there to push antonio or whomever was blocking and pushing up on Ali. We did the same thing when De gea first came into the league. Some one has to protect Ali there. Everyone struggled today, the less said about TAA defense in these set pieces and tracking back for the 2nd goal the better.
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It’s going to be a long two weeks…listening to bubble fans slagging us off…and everyone else and their mother…have the shitty ever lost a game, have plastics ever lost a game and the mancs…oh yeah they have…let’s hope its a one off.
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You miss the point, but that’s normal…
You start who deserves it and on form it’s Kostas. I’d bet he doesn’t cross it to no one several times in one half causing turn overs and counter attacks each time.
This team is too safe, too ok with playing badly. No fight, it needs sorting out and for me that’s dropping under performing players even if they were your go to. It’s why we are complacent, you can be shit and start next week.
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West Ham away who are in a groove is a difficult proposition in any scenario. They are equal second, above us, so clearly they absolutely deserve to be where they are sitting.
But we really did ourselves no favours. Easily the messiest performance with the ball we’ve put in in recent memory. Robbo and Trent were absolutely butchered this afternoon and the wings really were a happy hunting ground for them.
That’s really all there is to comment from that. Deserved result given the performance. Learn the lessons from this and do better next game.
So far the three title challengers have drawn once against low table opposition: City to 13th place Soton, us to 14th place Brentford, and Chelsea to 18th place Burnley. We have dropped points to other teams in the top 8 so we really don’t have much wiggle room to continue to do that but at least they weren’t poor teams. I’m hoping our current poor form is our lull in the season and that we snap out of it shortly.
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I think everyone could see the WH second coming 5 minutes before it did. Klopp delayed his sub too long. A fresh pair of legs at 60 minutes at 1-1, and the game would’ve been different.
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Not bothered by anything else than lack of concentration in key moments from the lads. This happened against brighton as well. Should do better. Anyone whining how someone should have started instead of some others should go play their fifa careers.
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