Bolton 0 West Ham 0 Half Time Report - Laughably Poor!

Zola predicted Dyer wouldn't last 90 minutes but he picked him anyway - and he just about managed 20. Ashton has retired, surely Dyer should follow his lead. What a monumental waste of money the guy is.

Tactically, Zola is excelling in idiocy again tonight. Okay Bolton haven't scored yet but only because they are crap, or have been so far. Tomkins and Faubert have been guilty of two of the most derisory pieces of defending I have ever seen, Tomkins misjudging the bounce o the ball in keystone cops fashion and Faubert delivering his best cross so far this season, into the middle of his own penalty box! Add in Collison trying to dribble across the front of his own penalty box and losing possession and that shows the level of incompetence on display.

Time and again, we are losing possession in our own half. Why? Because there is nobody to play the ball to up front. Franco is half a pitch a way from any supporting players and at some point, probably at half time, Bolton are going to wake up to the fact that they don't need four men to mark him! Yet again, Diamanti and Stanislas are on the wrong flanks so again we cannot get the ball into crossing positions. We reach the edge of the box, then go nowhere because any runner will be offside unless somebody goes past a defender and pulls the ball back. It is so bloody obvious! But Zola still can't see it!

Bolton will score second half and I can't see how we will. Diamanti and Franco have barely touched the ball and creatively, we are not at the races. The only solution is to move Stanislas, switch Collison wide right and Diamanti wide left, then we might see us progress into Bolton's half at least. The long out ball to Stanislas might even be an option!

I would say that first half as dire but Dyer didn't manage half of the first half did he? And to add to the sheer incompetence, Ilunga took a foul throw in his own half and Dyer was stripped nd in the bath before Stanislas even got off the sub's bench. My prediction? 2-0.

Pathetic!