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At 0-1 I was thinking this isn't a bad time for Liverpool to play Arsenal after the lesson they gave us at Anfield....
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Whatever wenger said at halftime needs to be said more often!
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Hasn't that been said more than once this season? MotD have mentioned how much better Arsenal play in the second half of games a few times.
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Along with some decent defenders seriously conceding mostly down to shoddy defending of set pieces.
Good result but to have to come back 1-0 down to west ham is appalling
LOL Arsenal finally decided to turn up i see tonight...must have had their weetabix this morning
Meh its West Ham, had we done that against City, Chelsea and Man Utd then id have reason to really celebrate but beating West Ham is no huge feat in all honesty. They arent very good away from home and neither are they that good at home.
Still a win is a win i guess..
4th place here we come precioussssss
...must have had their weetabix this morningMeh its West Ham, had we done that against City, Chelsea and Man Utd then id have reason to really celebrate but beating West Ham is no huge feat in all honesty. They arent very good away from home and neither are they that good at home.
Still a win is a win i guess..
4th place here we come precioussssss
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Once again we have, with Walcott pushed out to the right, Santi and Podolski particularly coming into the game much more. Girouds goals were pretty damn simple, but thats not an issue, his passing and interplay with Podolski was very good and his chip to play Podolski in behind who then set up Santi was exceptional.
Walcott is literally incapable of that pass, of that movement, of the thought to drop back into space, drag a defender out of the way and play the ball in for someone else to run into the space.
Podolski is an excellent striker, he can be an excellent withdrawn striker and like Lampard he is excellent at making those runs into the box and playing off a striker to get in behind like he did. All that requires a striker who actually does something.
Giroud moving deep and pulling a defender with him was crucial to Podolski having that space, and the pass being of good quality was also crucial, Walcott is so painfully limited, and Gervinho simply crap that Podolski/Santi rarely play well with either of those two upfront.
The question is, has Wenger made promises about Walcott getting plenty of chances upfront, or did maybe Walcott realise how crap he is there in the past month(not likely seeing as he hasn't realised he's a crap winger in 5 years ). Will Wenger give Giroud a run, and if he gets injured will he put Walcott/forehead back upfront and put the team backwards again or do something sensible like move Podolski upfront and put someone in at left wing.
Ultimately though, West Ham were ranked 16th this season in away games, and thats with only two wins, early season against QPR and not long after against Newcastle, two out of form teams playing badly, and they've got a single point away since November 11th.
As good as we looked tonight, it was against the team with joint second worst form in the league who had lost 5 of the previous 8(wigan the same, Newcastle have lost 6).
It's also a bit worrying that in reality it was a 10 minute spell that won the game for us, again nothing against that but we did very little after Podolski went off, and not an awful lot when they were down to 10 men. Against Newcastle we were lucky to be in it by the 65 min mark, they took off some key players, and again it was the 80-90min mark being the only time we looked clearly the better team and blew them away, after they'd basically given up.
I'd kill to put in more than a single half performance in a game, infact, a single half might be an improvement, the last time we looked solid for 90 mins, even against Reading we looked like we might just throw it away, the cup game against them yet another shambolic first half performance. A 90 min solid performance against anyone would be great, and even a single solid half against a top half team would be an improvement.
Walcott is literally incapable of that pass, of that movement, of the thought to drop back into space, drag a defender out of the way and play the ball in for someone else to run into the space.
Podolski is an excellent striker, he can be an excellent withdrawn striker and like Lampard he is excellent at making those runs into the box and playing off a striker to get in behind like he did. All that requires a striker who actually does something.
Giroud moving deep and pulling a defender with him was crucial to Podolski having that space, and the pass being of good quality was also crucial, Walcott is so painfully limited, and Gervinho simply crap that Podolski/Santi rarely play well with either of those two upfront.
The question is, has Wenger made promises about Walcott getting plenty of chances upfront, or did maybe Walcott realise how crap he is there in the past month(not likely seeing as he hasn't realised he's a crap winger in 5 years
). Will Wenger give Giroud a run, and if he gets injured will he put Walcott/forehead back upfront and put the team backwards again or do something sensible like move Podolski upfront and put someone in at left wing.Ultimately though, West Ham were ranked 16th this season in away games, and thats with only two wins, early season against QPR and not long after against Newcastle, two out of form teams playing badly, and they've got a single point away since November 11th.
As good as we looked tonight, it was against the team with joint second worst form in the league who had lost 5 of the previous 8(wigan the same, Newcastle have lost 6).
It's also a bit worrying that in reality it was a 10 minute spell that won the game for us, again nothing against that but we did very little after Podolski went off, and not an awful lot when they were down to 10 men. Against Newcastle we were lucky to be in it by the 65 min mark, they took off some key players, and again it was the 80-90min mark being the only time we looked clearly the better team and blew them away, after they'd basically given up.
I'd kill to put in more than a single half performance in a game, infact, a single half might be an improvement, the last time we looked solid for 90 mins, even against Reading we looked like we might just throw it away, the cup game against them yet another shambolic first half performance. A 90 min solid performance against anyone would be great, and even a single solid half against a top half team would be an improvement.
Watched the highlights earlier tonight of the game and i have to say Podolski smashed the game wide open today with his goal and assists. He was by far our best player on the pitch, happy to see Giroud finally bagging a couple.
But yet our defensive frailties are there for everyone to see. We still cant defend set pieces, led to our first goal but thankfully the Pod smashed a superb strike from quite a distance tonight. Was rare to see that happen as we like to walk goals in like a certain Barca do but we havent even got a quarter of the quality they have.
Anyhow as i said before its only West Ham so im not going to get too carried away just yet but a win is 3 pts.
It did seem to me that after the 5th goal we switched off, could have easily made 8 goals had we kept attacking. Should have left Pod and Giroud on for the full 90+mins that were played.
But yet our defensive frailties are there for everyone to see. We still cant defend set pieces, led to our first goal but thankfully the Pod smashed a superb strike from quite a distance tonight. Was rare to see that happen as we like to walk goals in like a certain Barca do but we havent even got a quarter of the quality they have
.Anyhow as i said before its only West Ham so im not going to get too carried away just yet but a win is 3 pts.
It did seem to me that after the 5th goal we switched off, could have easily made 8 goals had we kept attacking. Should have left Pod and Giroud on for the full 90+mins that were played.