Despite the date marking April Fools, it, unfortunately, wasn’t a joke that West Ham fans had to endure in another game of this seemingly everlasting season.
Lineups saw Mohammed Kudus missing completely, as well as Todibo and Soucek finding themselves on the bench. Potter decided to throw all his toys out the pram and try something new… which at first was hard to see but apparently it was in a 5-2-1-2.
The first half pretty much summarises the performances, an open goal miss from Evan on his first start, along with a deflection of Kilman leading to Wolves’ first.
Tony Harrington decided that the colour of April is yellow, handing out three cards in the first half. Unsurprisingly, Mavro being one of them.
Guilherme could only face 45 minutes before being dragged off for the German’s return.
Without trying to sound like a broken record each week. The second half was a carbon copy of the first, lack of chances created, mistakes made in the crucial moments, holes in the midfield and the forwards struggling to shoot.
The two best chances of the game went to Fullkrug, who had a header denied in which Emerson couldn’t even hit the target on in the rebound. And the other being a clear-cut chance which was struck wide of the post.
A 1-0 Loss is the result we travel back to London with, a joke of a performance to match today’s date.
8 games to go… phew
Comments
The only common denominator
The only common denominator here, is shipping one goal per game. That's a good thing. However not scoring on a regular basis is another!
Having nothing to play for is sucking the life out of us...
We were awful again. Lack
We were awful again. Lack lustre performance. Most of first half whe we dd have posrssion it was kilman ball. Areola to kilman and back, across the box and back to areola and then eventually the ball to the oposition. Whole team looked bereft of ideas, poor support play and tired
The whole team needs fixing
Not one player looked up for it....Guilherme only a kid his first start so not going in to hard on him but ffs its your opportunity to show what you can do but all you can say is he was as poor as the rest of the team...Ferguson jeeez how poor was that to miss a chance put on a plate for him....no body movement just a lazy drag of the foot pathetic.....i honestly do not see us winning again this season as we have seen to many of these performances from the same players under different managers so whilst Potter has to take the shit the majority of the players have to as well because only turning up in certain games is not good enough.
yup
says it all mcbike
Cant say I agree Louis
The second half was better, more intensity, pace but still no where near the level we were seeing from a top opposition that Wolves are... ooppps! Given the run a round by a team forth to bottom in the league we made them look like Prem contenders! Had it not been for their inept finishing this could have been a lot worse.
Ferguson can be criticised for the early miss but he had no service what so ever, Ze German looked better but only because he had more scraps to feed off.
From memory Fullkrug had a half chance with the header, which was a decent attempt, the miss from Slowczech was indefensible but to me no surprise. Im bored with WH fans telling me he deserves his place as he gets goals, well if I had the same number of minutes on a pitch I would probably match his huge tally of 7! I appreciate that he is joint top but that says more about the team than him... I would prefer to see midfielders with high assist stats.
JWP, ineffectual as normal, what does Potter see in him?
Guilherme, I wouldn't judge him on this performance, again zero service from an absent, slow, lethargic disconnected midfield.
In summary, we missed Kudos, yes he runs down blind alleys but makes a difference, high possession in our third, invite the press then pass back to Areola only to kick it down the throat of their center backs, massive disconnect between midfield and defence (could also say with forwards) and Wolves deserved the win, they were the better side