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Rafael Van Der Vaart
Hugo MOM by a mile
Thought Winks did very well. Tried generating a bit of momentum with positive passes that other players killed and he always looked for the ball.
Hugo MOM by a mile
He's good at pretending to be a top class footballer
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I don’t know how we are winning games playing like this. We either click into gear and we’ll be spectacular or this form will catch up on us.
Or we continue to manage the effect of the World Cup on our players and also get the injured players back and then we hit top form.
Also I don't agree with your notion regarding the second half performance.
Great fudging result that given the team we had to go with. I must admit I feared the worse but the lads that played did brilliantly. The only downside was the numerous openings we did not take to kill the game and that left it on a knife edge.
And fair play to Sissoko, he was outstanding and me saying that should dispel the myth that it's a withhunt with him. We were told he was great against Cardiff and he really wasn't, but today he was and that was undoubtedly his best performance for us. It was yaya toure like at times and he deservedly gets an 8/10 for that.
Also wham away is one of the more difficult games outside the top 6, especially for us, man utd lost their and chelsea scrapped a draw.
Let's give the team its due credit and don't pick unfair holes in the display, in a very difficult game with countless players out and tired.
You are 400% correct we weren’t the only team with players at the World Cup. We were the only team with 9 players who played through the whole tournament though.It’s a great result particularly with our record there.
But we weren’t good second half. We relied on our keeper to make 2-3 first class saves and created little. Sanchez and Trippier were poor and will be ripped apart by better players if they don’t sort themselves out.
We weren’t the only team with players at the World Cup so I don’t buy that. I’m hoping it’s just the traditional slow start to the season.
You are 400% correct we weren’t the only team with players at the World Cup. We were the only team with 9 players who played through the whole tournament though.
Ham made some good chances, Hugo made good saves, they pinged lots of headers off target and they wasted half of their corners by shinning them at knee height, so I didn't feel we managed the game well. I think we stood up and did our best under a lot of pressure.
Come on Huddlesfield.
Thought Winks did very well. Tried generating a bit of momentum with positive passes that other players killed and he always looked for the ball.
Exactly. You don’t manage a game like that when it’s 1-0. That’d be madness.
Playing devils advocate, Dier, Rose, Dembele barely played. Toby should be flying as he barely played last season and Lloris is a keeper. I’m being a bit flippant but how long do we expect the WC hangover to last?
Davies has been poor this season as has Sanchez. Eriksen too. What are their excuses?
Well, we did and we won. I don’t think they created that much, Lloris made a great save towards the end but their move could have been offside and they got two nice bounces of the ball. Other than that, they worked super hard, played well and got the stadium behind them but we were never threatened really. We didn’t let ourselves get caught into playing West Ham blood and guts football and we came away with the points. It’s all good.