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A Familiar Result

August 21, 2022 at 11:39 pm Leave a comment

Two home defeats – against Manchester City and Brighton – each with a 0-2 scoreline, that’s what the West Ham fans have witnessed so far in the London Stadium this season, and West Ham have also lost 0-1 away to newly promoted Nottingham Forest.

David Moyes‘s team lacks form, urgency, commitment and pace, and when Brighton, West Ham‘s bogey team (the “Seagulls” have not lost in 10 Premier League games with West Ham) were 2-0 up after 66 minutes, the Hammers never looked as if they could stage a comeback.

McAllister had put Brighton 1-0 up when he swept home a first-half penalty following a foul on Danny Welbeck by new signing Thilo Kehrer on the edge of the box. Then the Seagulls doubled their lead after 66 minutes with a clinical Leandro Trossard finish on the counter-attack, when Kurt Zouma lost the ball in Brighton‘s half.

West Ham only had some chances at the very end of the game, but a comeback always seemed quite unlikely.

It looks as if West Ham and their new talisman after Mark Noble’s retirement, new skipper Declan Rice who missed a penalty last week, are low on confidence. I now even fear for the return leg in the Conference League play-off: a 3-1 advantage looks good, but who knows …

However, maybe it would be a blessing in disguise if the Hammers were not to play every three or four days because of their engagement in the ECL until the start of the World Cup in November. But on the other hand, it would affect the team’s confidence even more if they were dumped out so early by a Danish minnow…

Anyway, the future of this season doesn’t look very bright for West Ham so far … A relegation fight is a possibility with 0 points and 0 goals from three games … Let’s hope that we won’t have to get even more familiar with this kind of results!

PS: With Manchester Utd sensationally winning 2-1 against Liverpool on Monday, now West Ham are rooted to the bottom of the table until next weekend. :(( Next PL match: Aston Villa away.

👉🏻 What’s going wrong? (post by Goaty Gav, WHTID)

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