We don’t make it easy for ourselves… it couldn’t have possibly been a tense 1-0 win, it had to go through a grain of pain before the eventual last-minute heroic goal scored by Wilson, giving us a crucial three points, given Spurs’ victory against Wolves - their first in 2026.
An intense first half kicked us off, both sides battling tooth and nail with a combined 13 shots coming into the break, but none being on target - both teams struggled to sting the gloves of the other side.
David Moyes’ return to the London Stadium saw a classic performance, one where he tried to play us out of our own game by sitting back and countering, which certainly did work in moments, but overall it wasn’t enough to deny us the three points.
Tomas Soucek’s salmon-like header fired us into the lead. Jarrod added two more assists to his tally this season, the first being through the corner placed on Soucek’s head, the second being Wilson’s winner.
In classic West Ham fashion, it wouldn’t be done easily. We attempted the 1-0 up and defend strategy, which, not only doesn’t always tend to work, but it also comes with a warning of ‘immense heart-strain’ - I was contacting the nearby stewards to find where the nearest defib was!
Peak heartache occurred when Mateus Fernandes seemingly handled the ball inside our own penalty area, ultimately leaving fans furious initially, but that emotion changed in a heartbeat, turning into being puzzled at how on earth a penalty hadn’t been given.
Nuno’s side has had far too many moments of luck go the other way; it’s about time something swings the way of the Hammers, but that doesn’t take away from the tomfoolery that occurred. Had that been against West Ham, the fans would be furious.
Though a penalty wasn’t given, sadness-filled eyes as Everton thumped in the inevitable equaliser, but in fairness to Nuno’s side, the players didn’t sulk; they got their heads down and fought. Jarrod’s heroic pass was thought to have been passed by everyone, but Callum Wilson, the freebie, summoned into the middle and tapped it in, sending the fans into heroics as well as Axel Disasi seemingly launching a ball-boy’s chair to the promised land.
The spins in the air from the plastic chair, as well as Soucek, brought the Hammers a crucial three points, one of which keeps Nuno’s side afloat.
Whilst some Hammers fans might be frustrated with Spurs’ result, it’s important to note that doing our job is all that is required from us - the gap could’ve been more, but all fans initially hoped for was a victory against Everton, which is exactly what we got.
Wilson’s touch of magic gets West Ham over the line. The next challenge is Brentford at the Gtech.
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Massive
Win. If we can beat brentford we might just pull this off n sink spurs
Nuno Nuno Nuno
Negative defensive thinking again and it will be what does for us in the long run...our goal difference is so much poorer than the spuds we simply have to win draws this time of the season wont cut it and Nuno is going back to his bad old ways.
A big rethink has to be done on the formation especially Pablo...nice guy puts in the effort and runs himself into the ground but that is about all he does..Bowen and Tatty both dropping into our own half leaves us with no outlet and so the ball keeps coming back.
Bench Pablo put Traore out wide right and give Bowen freedom to roam behind Tatty and for gods sake put us on the front foot because once again trying to shut up shop with over 20 minutes to go was just plain stupid.....we got very lucky today and with the VAR decision because for me it was handball and a pen but it went in our favour this time.
Yeah
But its easy to say just attack, go forward etc. What about the players themselves? They are bound to be nervy. Go goal up, they are thinking sit back, no mistakes.
We blame manager all the time. At end of day, he wants to win as much as we do.
Going gung ho could just as easily lost us v palace and everton. Spurs would now be above us
I agree Var,its all well and
I agree Var,its all well and good us lot giving pointers,but if we were on the pitch you have to adjust to the flow of the game,and yes Nuno wants to stay in the Prem.
i'm not saying go gung ho
But come on how many times do we kick off let the opposition have the ball and do not close them down so they get comfortable on the ball and because we drop deep the defence gets crowded with little outlet and mistakes happen....and tell me how far was Pickford being allowed to walk up to nearly the centre circle with no challenge how can that be allowed to happen? Pablo or Tatty had to go challenge but they just kept backing away and again this leads to the play getting condensed and little outlet...so pushing further up the pitch surely makes sense.
I've totally lost the plot
In what constitutes a handball in todays game but by the same token, not sure what constitutes a penalty either. So Everton cannot complain too much about not getting the claim given what I thought were two legitimate claims ourselves for the shove in the back on Disasi and the reckless lunge by Pickford on Tati.
VAR is getting too involved in splitting hairs on things like offsides whilst getting what are clear and obvious errors continually wrong. Don't know why we bother with it.
Im with you Mc
Luno got lucky. The subs were awfull, left us no outlet and totally ruined the shape. In fact at the back we NO shape just bodies behind the ball. This doesnt work in the Prem, you will get found out.
Agree about Pablo, hard worker but again at this level you need more.
Got to agree with bike ,Pablo
Got to agree with bike ,Pablo not completely U S but not far off it.
I was at the game
great atmosphere, got behind the team and I "sold out" my allocation of BS Out Red Cards!!!
Thought the Team spirit was fantastic, love the attitude of Axel!
In the stadium couldn't see the Fernandes handball but thought we should have had at least a VAR look at the assault by Pickford on Taty.
Great goal by Sgt Wilson, two wonderful assists by Jerrod
Finally my mate Slowie... Great game and a great goal, pleased for him and this is coming from his biggest critic!!!
They kept trying to show the
They kept trying to show the challenge from Pickford but for some reason the cameras were shite and could only get a look from the other side of the pitch which wasn't conclusive. i wasn't sure he caught him and the commentators the same, looked bad but the last frame, to me, I though he may have just missed him.
Something has to change and
Something has to change and quick. We cannot afford to play like this anymore. We got out of jail. But we wont next time and will find ourselves 1 point behind the spuds!!!!!
Listen
We are a poor side. Been relegation fodder all season. What we can do is fight n grind. Do we expect us to be able to boss prem sides like everton and palace etc? Not gonna happen we pants.
Its not about bossing
Its about fighting and we now have four games and either the players want to stay in the premier league or they don't and if they don't the consequences are wage cuts massive player sales and into a meat grinder of a league which we are not going to be equipped to get out of.
So sitting back hoping we can nick a goal and defend it for the remaining time is hard...spuds scored against Brighton and thought yes we done it but every pro said that was stupid as there were still 7 mins to play and that is a long time to go not to concede a chance so sitting back for over 20/26 mins was crazy..if it had been the last few mins then you understand but if we play like that again and like we did against Palace we will come up short.