The Hammers set off on Wednesday night through to Thursday morning for their second Premier League summer series game against David Moyes' Everton side.
The game not only started with a very different line-up, but we started the fixture with the same patterns of defensive errors as in the 17th minute, Everton made a mockery of Casey and Kilman, as Everton's team glided through our defence, clear as day, the ball in the back of the net with a easy finish for Gueye who made it 1-0 to Everton.
However, after a few passages of play, a defensive error decided to go in our favour when Everton's Goalkeeper, Mark Travers, punched the ball onto his own head and slipped in Lucas Paqueta who had to shield off the defender to tap it in to an open net, a simple finish from Paqman, but they all count.
Halftime super subs formed the team to look more realistic as to what we could expect, with a struggling Casey coming off the field, as well as Potts, who impressed again but was on a yellow card, so was taken off during the break for Guido.
Niclas Fullkrug picked up the ball and blazed it into the bottom right corner across the goal, making it 2-1 to us, a classy finish for the German, who, coming into next season needs some confidence to bring into the 2025/26 season.
The remainder of the game was closed out, and the final score would end up being 2-1 to us. A few chances closed out the game, such as AWB fooling the entire crowd that he'd scored, but had just in fact hit the side netting and that was that.
Another fixture which demonstrates the need for a Midfielder as well as another Goalkeeper, with the GK having to be the primary option at hand, considering Fodderingham's run out today wasn't ideal to say the least, which the goal will tell you, but he nor Areola can be our starting choices next season, business seriously needs to get a move on.
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Just watched the highlights
Just watched the highlights and agree, goalkeeper is a serious worry. We seem to be playing more positive, attacking football. Nice to see Fulkrug hitting the target, this will do his confidence a world of good.
just watched it on you tube
Without seeing the whole game it is hard to comment on the performance but Paqueta seemed more up for it than he has for a long time and that is a good thing Fulkrug has lost a lot of weight and does look good the Marshall chance although not scored the way he shaped his body the run onto the ball the anticipation well looks natural and looks good for an option from the bench in the season ahead..Casey made an error that led to the goal will be a good learning curve for him and will show what is needed at this level compared to u23's....
And like i mentioned it is hard to gleam from the highlights what kind of performance it was but the team did not look as lethargic as of late but those of you who watched it all can inform the rest of us....still turning Moyes over even in a friendly is always good COYI
I think Sundays game against Bournemouth
Will be a good yardstick as to how our season will go they are a decent side and play good football so let us see how Potters way of playing fairs in this one.
yes agree bubble girl
this game should be a good yard stick for us. I watched the high lights of the everton game and apart from the 2 howlers from both goal keepers we seemed to play well and more of a unit so hopefully onward and upwards