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West Ham 2022-23: The Road to Prague

What a dreary game. 3 points is welcome but we were still dross so I'm certainly not optimistic that we're about to get a great shock result against Newcastle or Arsenal (or even Fulham). I would be impressed with 4 points in the rest of April
 
Also, some good managers now suddenly unemployed. If we do stay up then Potter or Nagelsmann would be a good fit for us (especially if Kretinsky buys out Sullivan) with all that talk about us looking at the RB Leipzig model. Not sure about Rodgers.
 
What a dreary game. 3 points is welcome but we were still dross so I'm certainly not optimistic that we're about to get a great shock result against Newcastle or Arsenal (or even Fulham). I would be impressed with 4 points in the rest of April
Yeah Southampton were terrible and we weren't much better.
 
What the actual fuck.

Get a goal back, out for the second half, gift them a goal in the first minute. Just unbelievable. We are so fucking shocking. An awful football team.
 
This has been the worst defensive performance I have ever seen. All four goals were absolutely terrible and have got worse with each one, culminating in Fabianski trying to, I don't know, rainbow flick it over Isak?

Our home fixtures after this are Arsenal, Liverpool, Man Utd and Leeds. We've got 6 pts away all season. We need about 9 more points. I don't see where they are coming from.

Oh, they've scored another one. At least they actually had to try to do that one.
 
Home: Arsenal, Liverpool, Man Utd, ------ Newcastle (L 1-5!), ------ Leeds, Southampton (W 1-0 but were crap), Villa (D 1-1)

Away: Man City, ----- Brentford ----- Leicester, Palace, Bournemouth, Fulham

We've got no chance with the first column, slightly more with the middle and the third column are "winnable" (even though the way we are playing we haven't been winning them).

Let's be positive and say we get nothing from the first group and one win out of the two in the middle. we win 2 out of the 3 home games and one win and a draw from the aways. That gives us 13 points, which gets us to 36 (and, to put it into context we've won 6 games so far this season so 4 in the next 13 is unlikely).
So 4 points from our big run of 3 consecutive home games, and we haven't even started your 1st column of hopeless causes and still on only 27 points. At Fulham on Saturday. At least its the season for betrayals and miraculous resurrections.
 
KUMB keep going on about how little Soucek contributes so I checked out opta and its amazing for a central midfielder who played 60ish minutes. Downes was 50% more active in half the time
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So 4 points from our big run of 3 consecutive home games, and we haven't even started your 1st column of hopeless causes and still on only 27 points. At Fulham on Saturday. At least its the season for betrayals and miraculous resurrections.
Yeah. Let's update it.

Home: Arsenal, Liverpool, Man Utd, ------ xxx ------ Leeds

Away: Man City, ----- Brentford ----- Leicester, Palace, Bournemouth, Fulham

The original plan was 6 points from the "easy" home games. We got 4 with Leeds still to go. Anything other than a win against Leeds puts us behind, even on that section.

3 points from either Newcastle or Brentford. Well. Let's hope we beat Brentford but that's doubtful.

And then 4 points from those four winnable away games.

We might get a win from one of the top 6 games but I don't think we've had a win against them since 2015, so unlikely. So let's say we get a win from either Brentford or Leeds, and then we need 6 points from those away games (and that might not be enough). There's no whipping boys this year, so I think the points needed might be higher, maybe that's wrong.

We've managed 6 points away from home all season.

We are somehow still 5/1 to go down at the bookies.
 
Last season for comparison:
Arsenal (h) L 1-2
Liverpool (h) W 3-2
Man Utd (h) L 1-2
Leeds (h) L 2-3
Man City (a) L 1-2
Brentford (a) L 0-2
Leicester (a) D 2-2
Palace (a) W 3-2
Bournemouth & Fulham (a) n/a but we beat Watford, Norwich and drew with Burnley

That would give us 11-13 points which would be enough but
(1) is totally dependant on Bournemouth and Fulham being worse than us which is TBD, and
(2) ignores the fact that we are much shittier than last season, ie picking up points at 60% of last seasons rate (we had 45pts this time last season).
 
Home: Liverpool, Man Utd, ------ xxx ------ Leeds

Away: Man City, ----- Brentford ----- Leicester, Palace, Bournemouth

Ok, so one win from Brentford or Leeds and one from Leicester, Palace, Bournemouth. Still in the balance but looking better than a few weeks ago.
 
Ghent was very nice. Watched the game in a sports bar avoiding the hordes and then ended up in another bar in Brussels for Arsenal. Anderlecht were on the other screens getting beat 5-2 by Genk. Maybe we can join the Belgian league instead?

Back to the horrible domestic league...I suppose technically we're in decent form but it doesn't feel like it
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Ghent was very nice. Watched the game in a sports bar avoiding the hordes and then ended up in another bar in Brussels for Arsenal. Anderlecht were on the other screens getting beat 5-2 by Genk. Maybe we can join the Belgian league instead?

Back to the horrible domestic league...I suppose technically we're in decent form but it doesn't feel like it
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I watched Kortrijk last week while I was in Flanders for Paris Roubaix. Looks like a pub league.
 
West Ham are massive, everywhere we go. What a second half. Great goals from rice and antonio, great stuff from Bowen and Paqueta. Brilliant.

And the whole ground taking the piss putting their mobile lights on was fucking hilarious.
 
And the whole ground taking the piss putting their mobile lights on was fucking hilarious.
What was that about? It looked like a Coldplay concert or some shit.
Anyway, it was a fun night which has been a rare thing this season.
 
What was that about? It looked like a Coldplay concert or some shit.
Anyway, it was a fun night which has been a rare thing this season.
The Gent fans all had their mobile flashlights on when it was one each, just before Paqueta's penalty. Dunno if they were trying to put him off or if it's just something they do. Anyway, they all went off sharpish when he scored and when we scored the third the whole stadium put their lights on to take the piss.
 


Got quite emotional seeing that. He's had such a shit season and it obviously meant so much to him. We are fucking massive again.
 
So, Moyes in? If we win the European Zenith Data Systems Cup and finish 12/13ish it'd be hard to justify sacking him
 
Watched the FA youth cup final. Some team that. League and Cup double. Beat Arsenal 5-1 at their own ground and one of the best goals for a long time from Kodua. Chipped the keeper from 40 yards.
 
This must be what it's like to be a Man City fan, but without the gnawing feeling in your stomach that it's all cheating.
 
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