Today's early kick off at the as yet commercially unnamed London Stadium between West Ham and visitors Chelsea WAS full of incident if NOT quality, in fact given the eye watering value of the players on display fans could have been forgiven for expecting a little more than they saw!
A 'squad' of Pigeons that constantly 'patrolled' the pitch, especially during the first half were more organised than EITHER side, this despite Hammers major summer spending spree and Chelsea's wholseale purchase of virtually any player with a pulse! The Pigeons swooped and rose gracefully seemingly aware of whenever and wherever there was a loose ball that needed dealing with, if only the players on BOTH sides had been able to take a leaf out of the Pigeon's book things might have turned out differently.
As it was what was an entertaining game never rose to the heights of the feathered visitors, it merely trundled along as two sides bereft of confidence slugged it out to achieve a 1-1 draw, the fact that there were THREE goals chalked off by VAR indicates the level of official interference that essentially ruined the game.
At the end of the game both managers seemed happy with a point although Graham Potter WAS incensed by Tomas Soucek's blatant hand ball from a Connor Gallagher shot towards the frenetic end to the game shortly after Nayef Aguerd was taken off because of a hamstring injury that will be full assessed tomorrow.
Lucas Pacqueta was taken off with a shoulder injury after 15 minutes as well just to add to the growing list of injuries which include Kurt Zouma and Maxwell Cornet, considering Chelsea had just splurged a fortune on new players theirs was the worst performance, but to the vast majority of fans watching, it was the Pigeons who ruled the roost! - Ed
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the worst performance was from Chelski
Got to disagree there Nev then again as we did not even turn up for the game except for a couple of mins after scoring i can see your point.
How much longer are we to take these pedestrian displays by our side?we should of beaten the barcodes last week but subs meant we "respect" the point and today we "respected" chelski far to much stood off them let them play and were lucky not to have our backside handed to us in the first half were they anything special nope but we made them look that way...we scored from nothing and for a couple of mins it was like the players forgot the rules defend deep stand off pass square and Chelski were rocking but then we dropped deep why? that there is the question that as fans we have been asking all season and yet to hear the answer.
Spot on Mac
How we got a point I will never know! Every one of us was expecting nil points from the geordies & the chavs but we have those 2 precious points that could actually keep us up! It's certainly not pretty,it's certainly not entertaining but relegation will be a catastrophe for our club in this ridiculous stadium!! But hey ho it is what it is
Lol yes Nev,those pigeons
Lol yes Nev,those pigeons were persistant.......I agree 65 those 2 points could be what decides,but we are far from in the clear,the football we play is ugly,not entertaining at all,but as i said in a previous post,where i sit lower tier west stand Bobby Moor side,they love Moyes cant sing his name loud enough.
Each to their own Essex
I'm amazed really mate how people still love him...."We've got super David moyes". & all that.We've been pony for a year,but have actually been better in the last few games! I'm more confident than a month ago that we will stay up now but probably just about!!
Best moment of the game was
Best moment of the game was in the tunnel beforehand. All our little mascots were lined up. Then along came Chelsea out the dressing room. Thiago silva extended his hand to a little mascot, who proceeded to put his hand up to his nose and twiddle his fingers. silva took it well to be fair but i pissed my pants....
Bang on 65 ,sometimes i
Bang on 65 ,sometimes i wonder if Dec is giving it all, the last thing he wants is an injury ,he's about to become The prems costliest footballer .i mean why would he ?,bet he cant wait to get away .
He
was on the awards thingy last night so that explanes it
The system that Moyes has
The system that Moyes has implemented, I think suits Rice and his style of play. So when Rice decides to move up with pace, he seems to stand out from the rest of the team. The latest rumour is that he will be swapped for Man City's Phillips. To me he will fit in their lineups, but I am not convinced that he will be their top player. Unlike West Ham where he wont miss a minute of being in the starting lineups of the Premier Division, in Man City he could be spending a substantial time on the bench!!
However, the worry is that two key players such as Paqueta and Aguerd were injured against Chelsea. We need these two to start each and every game. Johnson and Soucek may find those boots to big to fit in!!