Archive for January, 2020
Interesting FA Cup Draw for WHU
West Ham have been drawn to face Slaven Bilic’s West Bromwich Albion in FA Cup fourth round.
David Moyes‘s men will take on the Baggies, now managed by former Hammers manager Slaven Bilic, at London Stadium on the 25th of January, 3 p.m.
West Ham booked their place in the competition’s last-32 by defeating League One Gillingham 2-0 at Priestfield on Sunday.
On Monday evening they were drawn against Championship promotion-chasers West Brom, who saw off fellow second tier side Charlton Athletic in their third round match.
Slaven Bilic managed the Hammers in their last season at the Boleyn Ground and their first season at the London Stadium, but was sacked in autumn 2017 when West Ham was dragged into the relegation battle. He had to give way for David Moyes who saved West Ham from the drop, but wasn’t considered the right man to reach “the next level” and was replaced by Manuel Pellegrini at the beginning of the 2018/19 season. However, now Moisy is back to stop the Hammers’ free fall in Pellegrini’s second season, and the Scotsman has delivered two wins on his first two games back at West Ham, and recently has declared that for him “the FA Cup is joint equal with making sure we’re as high up the Premier League as we can.”
Moyes said that the Hammers “need to do everything we can to get through in the Cup” and that he would love to reach the final this year as he did with Everton in 2009, when the Toffees eventually were beaten 1-2 by Chelsea.
Slaven Bilic has been out of the game since his departure from West Ham, until he took charge at the Hawthorns last summer. He has enjoyed a superb start to life in the dugout at the Midlands club, who currently sit second in the Championship table.
That’s really going to be a very interesting encounter at the London Stadium on the weekend of 25 January 2020!
Happy Start into New Year for Hammers and Moyes
David Moyes – a manager who seems nobody wanted … But his West Ham return got off to the best possible start as captain Mark Noble with two goals helped his side to an emphatic 4-0 victory over Bournemouth.
The owners didn’t reckon David Moyes to be good enough to take the Club “to the next level” just 18 months ago, and refused to extend his short term contract after he had led West Ham to Premier League safety at the end of the 2017-18 season. But on Sunday they reappointed the Scotsman to replace the sacked Manuel Pellegrini in order to stop West Ham’s free fall under a manager who had not seemed capable anymore to turn around West Ham’s season.
And in Moyes’s first game the fans saw quite a different kind of West Ham: though sticking by and large with the players who had performed so poorly under Manuel Pellegrini, the team looked far better organised and much happier to be playing under the new manager. After a slow start Captain Mark Noble opened the scoring inside 20 minutes with the help of a deflection. The skipper geed up the crowd as the match got back under way, signalling to them to ramp up the volume, and they did exactly that when Sebastien Haller‘s sensational bicycle kick doubled the Hammers’ lead just 7 minutes later.
Noble scored his second in the 35th minute from the penalty spot after being brought down by Harry Wilson, before Felipe Anderson, scoring hits first goal since April, completed the rout in the second half.
The emphatic victory over a completely out-of-form Cherries team was West Ham’s first win at home for more than three months, their last victory at the London Stadium being the 2-0 over Manchester United on September 22.
The fans in the London Stadium enjoyed “the best atmosphere in a long time”, appreciating that “every single player put in a shift, fighting for every ball and pressing” as @hollseey put it on twitter.
This perfect start for Moyes’s second spell at the east London Club lifts them out of the relegation zone, with Bournemouth slipping down the Premier League table into 18th.
The 4-0 is West Ham’s biggest Premier League win since November 2007, when they beat Derby 5-0 at Pride Park. It’s the Hammers’ biggest home win in the competition since September 2005 (4-0 v Aston Villa).
The Hammers’ next games will see them travel to Gillingham in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday (18:16 GMT), followed by a league trip to Sheffield United next Friday (20:00 GMT).
-> Watch West Ham’s goals here!
Happy New Year 2020
Psalm 1
Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,
but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
and who meditates on his law day and night.
That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever they do prospers.
Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff
that the wind blows away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.
“The key to lasting – and ultimately eternal – fruitfulness and vitality lies in your relationship with God. As you seek to follow ‘the way of the righteous’, you are assured that the Lord himself will watch over you (v.6).
“Lord, thank you for your wonderful promises as I resolve to make a regular habit of delighting in your word and meditating on it.”
“Bible in one year” by Nicky Gumbel, HTB
EXTRA TIME 
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