- Aug 31, 2012
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Just got back from the game.
Waste of an evening.
Moyes did a number on Pochettino, West Ham hardly gave up any clear cut chances and they got the point they came for.
We did not play with sufficient urgency during the match. Even in the first half once the pattern of play was set we needed to be much quicker in shifting the ball side to side in order to tire out the West Ham players until one of them eventually was dragged out of position. Instead our build up play was very slow and ponderous so we didn't make West Ham work that hard.
Sissoko rarely offers much anyway, but in this game he was completely useless. His main strength is to get us up the pitch when we are either under pressure or a game is stretched, he was never the right sort of player for this match. So I blame Poch for getting the selection wrong here, either Lamela or Wanyama should have started in his place or been brought on much earlier.
I often think that Aurier and Sissoko are an amusing double act, where neither has the ability to beat a man or pass to a teammate.
Llorente offered little when he came on and in the end the rest of our front players were marked out of the game by sheer numbers and didn't have that little extra they needed, whether that's luck or ability I don't know.
As it panned out we could have lost the game - so I'm not really upset with the draw, just disappointed.
Waste of an evening.
Moyes did a number on Pochettino, West Ham hardly gave up any clear cut chances and they got the point they came for.
We did not play with sufficient urgency during the match. Even in the first half once the pattern of play was set we needed to be much quicker in shifting the ball side to side in order to tire out the West Ham players until one of them eventually was dragged out of position. Instead our build up play was very slow and ponderous so we didn't make West Ham work that hard.
Sissoko rarely offers much anyway, but in this game he was completely useless. His main strength is to get us up the pitch when we are either under pressure or a game is stretched, he was never the right sort of player for this match. So I blame Poch for getting the selection wrong here, either Lamela or Wanyama should have started in his place or been brought on much earlier.
I often think that Aurier and Sissoko are an amusing double act, where neither has the ability to beat a man or pass to a teammate.
Llorente offered little when he came on and in the end the rest of our front players were marked out of the game by sheer numbers and didn't have that little extra they needed, whether that's luck or ability I don't know.
As it panned out we could have lost the game - so I'm not really upset with the draw, just disappointed.
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