Archive for November 7, 2021
Massive West Ham On Stairway To 🔝
West Ham United showed that their place in the Premier League’s top four was fully warranted as they outmuscled Liverpool for a memorable 3-2 victory at a rocking London Stadium on Sunday. With this victory the Hammers leapfrogged the Reds in the PL table and are third now, level on points with Manchester City! “West Ham are massive, everywhere we go!”
(From The Telegraph) Victory for high-flying West Ham ended Liverpool’s 25-match unbeaten run in all competitions and lifted them above Juergen Klopp’s side into third place in the table.
An own goal by keeper Alisson gave West Ham a dream start, but Liverpool went in level at halftime thanks to a superb Trent Alexander-Arnold free kick.
Craig Dawson hit the bar for West Ham early in the second half as Liverpool wobbled at the back, before Pablo Fornals restored West Ham’s lead in the 66th minute when he was played through and his shot evaded Alisson.
Alisson was found wanting again eight minutes later when Kurt Zouma headed in West Ham’s third in the 74th minute.
The man who scored what proved to be the match-winning goal, declared after the match that West Ham were like one big “family”. Now it’s five years that this family has moved to the new London Stadium, but during these five years now in Stratford, rarely has a win been more ecstatically celebrated.
Though there was a late lifeline for Liverpool when Divock Origi made it 3-2 with a shot on the turn in the 82nd minute, but the hosts clung on for a memorable victory and could rightly celebrate that they have shown relentless consistency in seven games within three weeks (since the last international break) with six wins and one draw.
West Ham boss David Moyes, speaking to Sky Sports:
“It is a brilliant victory against a really good team. We played Thursday night too and to put in a performance with the energy to hang in at the end is great for the players. At the moment I’ve got really good players who play with incredible character.”
“We are still growing the seeds a little bit – but I think we are there [top three] on merit,” Moyes said. “I wanted to challenge whoever the teams will be in the top four. I hope one will be us. I’m hugely proud of the players. These players were close to relegation, now we’re pushing for Europe.”
By Europe, Moyes meant the Champions League, The Telegraph writes, and it was further to his and the players’ credit that this performance followed Thursday’s 2-2 draw against Genk.
It is now four league wins in a row for Moyes’ side and with the Hammers also in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals and the knockout phases of the Europa League, fans can rightly dream of more magical moments to come this season, BBC said in their match report. And that’s the new West Ham Way of David Moyes winning team (according to The Times):
Ultimately, you see that West Ham players reflect their manager, Moyes, a hard-working, grounded football man. These are Moyes’ men, a team united, following their manager’s instructions perfectly. Moyes, who celebrated his 1,000th game as a manager on Thursday, was managing against Liverpool for the 36th time and this was only his sixth win, and it felt so sweet that he celebrated Zouma’s goal with a jig on the touchline. It was hardly the Dashing White Sergeant but his joy and pride were understandable. He certainly had Liverpool reeling. Moyes and his staff drill the players extensively on set-pieces and two of their goals came from corners. His tactics of a low block and countering also paid off.
There are no egos in claret and blue, just good characters. Mark Noble, the club captain, embodies that. So does the current team captain, Rice, an established England international who would walk into any midfield in the country, yet is as down to earth as they come.
Where some players elsewhere copy-and-paste club-approved messages on social media, Rice types out his own heartfelt, emoji-filled posts, including a celebratory picture of him and a beaming Tomas Soucek, his midfield accomplice, after this famous win.
Goals: http://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2021/november/07-november/goals-west-ham-united-3-2-liverpool
Extended highlights: Extended Highlights: West Ham United 3-2 Liverpool | West Ham United (whufc.com)
Five Things We Loved About the Liverpool Win (WHUFC): Five things we loved about West Ham United’s Premier League win over Liverpool | West Ham United (whufc.com)
Celebration: https://twitter.com/westham/status/1457475448896516096?s=21
“West Ham are massive, everywhere we go”: Derek Richter âš’ auf Twitter
50 Years “Stairway To Heaven”
Zwei ganze Seiten widmete der KURIER diesen Sonntag einem legendären Rocksong: Vor 50 Jahren erschien Led Zeppelin IV mit “Stairway to Heaven”.
“And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all is one and one is all, that’s what it is: to be a rock and not to roll”
“Und wenn du ganz genau zuhörst, wird die Melodie endlich zu dir kommen. Wenn alles eins ist und eins alles, dann ist es das: ein Fels zu sein und nicht zu rollen…”
Nun, ich denke bei “Stairway to heaven” an Jesus und Gottes Liebe und nicht an ein unklares “Wenn alles eins ist und eins alles”. Ich denke an das Wort und das wahre Licht, das mit Jesus in die Welt gekommen ist (Johannes-Evangelium Kapitel 1) und daran, dass durch Jesus der Weg zu einer persönlichen Beziehung zu unserem Gott möglich geworden ist. ER ist der “Stairway to Heaven”. Durch das, was Jesus fĂĽr uns – fĂĽr jeden einzelnen – getan hat, ist der Weg zum Himmel frei geworden. Durch Seinen Tod am Kreuz ist der Weg zum Vater nun fĂĽr immer offen und es ist eine persönliche Beziehung zu Gott, zu Jesus möglich. Und ich denke daran, dass wir, wenn wir IHM die TĂĽre 🚪 öffnen, Gemeinschaft mit Jesus haben können (Offenbarung 3:20) und gerettet sind.
Dann kann ich fest stehen wie ein Fels – gewiss, dass Er mich liebt und mir beisteht und bei uns ist alle Tage bis ans Ende der Welt (Matthäus 28:16-20).
There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold
And she’s buying a stairway to heaven
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for
Ooh, ooh, and she’s buying a stairway to heaven
There’s a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure
‘Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook, there’s a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven
You know
There’s a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking
That’s youAnd it’s whispered that soon, if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter
Remember laughter?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah…And it makes me wonder
If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now
It’s just a spring clean for the May queen
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There’s still time to change the road you’re on
Your head is humming and it won’t go, in case you don’t know
The piper’s calling you to join him
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind?And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all is one and one is all, that’s what it is
To be a rock and not to roll, oh yeah
And she’s buying a stairway to heaven.
Thinking of Liverpool …
Today against Liverpool! I very well remember two games I have witnessed live: an emphatic 3-1 win at Upton Park (goals: Sakho, Reid and Amalfitano) with Sam Allardyce at the helm and Alex Song in the team (2014) – and a 1-4 defeat at London Stadium which ended Slaven Bilic’s tenure as West Ham manager (2017).
But it also was during Slaven’s reign that West Ham have last won against Liverpool: 2015/16 the Hammers made it three wins out of four games against Liverpool (including two FA Cup matches) eliminating the Reds from the FA Cup in a cup replay at Upton Park on 9 February 2016.
It’s a winless streak of ten games in all competitions now against Liverpool. It’s about time to win again … but Liverpool are a force that the Irons always struggled against and the Reds are the only team still unbeaten this season. They always could be overcome only on days when everything went very well for the Hammers.
Could it be a day like these today?
By the way: West Ham U23 beat Liverpool U 23 yesterday -> Highlights: West Ham United U23s 3-0 Liverpool U23s | West Ham United (whufc.com)
Come on you Irons!!!
EXTRA TIME 
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