West Ham’s last-gasp victory finally provided harmony after a match between fans, all have been in unison after seeing a West Ham side give the fight of their lives, which is what many have been asking for, but what prompted a change?
Nuno actively decided to drop Kilman last night, which already bolstered defensive confidence amongst fans and also decided to retain Tommy in the starting squad. He’s also had his fair share of critics, Mr Potato Salad, but his confidence and experience have been a real positive in the squad, and it was inevitable that he’d suit yesterday's game as it was about brains, not speed.
Lastly, Nuno’s decision to go with two strikers up top, Taty and Castellenos. Both had several chances across the match but couldn’t convert, though, overlooking those missed chances, it was admirable to see such attacking, free-flowing Football! Where has it been also season, has Nuno been hiding it up his sleeve, or was it Paco’s prowess in full force?
For Paco’s first game as coaching staff for the Hammers, he was seen speaking to the players before the game and was very active with Nuno on the sidelines across the first half. An attacking-minded coach joins West Ham, and in their first match, they play the most attacking Hammers fans have seen all season… quite convenient!
Seems as if the Hammers have relaxed Pacman for Paco, they might not exactly play in the same position, but overlooking that, it’s nice to see an attacking threat elsewhere.
It has only been one game for West Ham, but to have that change and effect against the Spuds seems as if it was almost written for West Ham. If Nuno and Paco have come together and accumulated this fight, it has to be performed on a regular basis and achieve results, but hey ho, it all has to begin somewhere.
If there was ever to be a game that defines ‘smash and grab’ for confidence, yesterday evening would’ve been the perfect example. - LN
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Nothing breeds confidence
Nothing breeds confidence like winning does. Little Jimmy Summerville has proved he can do it in the Premier League now. His last 2 performances have been outstanding. It's a shame Forest picked up a point last night. But as long as we concentrate on what we are doing. Then that's all that matters in the longer term.
Victories breed energy and confidence. Energy and confidence breed victories.
Smash and Grab?
Better finishing in the first half the game would of been done and dusted but its West Ham it is what we do...i was more bothered about the HT team talk as Nuno cannot let it go and has to have us drop off and so giving the spuds momentum....And really all that needed to be said was good half Lads lets have more of the same in the second....the spuds only worried us because we dropped off otherwise we were by far the better side.
Thinking forward Nuno has to see what we fans have been saying all season we are much better going forward and pressing than sitting back and countering and when you looked how we played it took the pressure off of Bowen and with teams doubling up on him and shutting his game down as he was seen as our only threat well now they have to worry about Jimmy.Taty.Pablo,Wilson and that can only benefit us in our fight to survive and give us better opportunities in the matches to come.