Well congratulations to Avram's boys for achieving something that no West Ham team has achieved for 50 years - three games played at the start of the season and three goals conceded in each. If we keep this up, we will ship 114 goals over the 38 game season; now that's entertainment! Mind you, I say Avram's boys, but the starting eleven were all at the club last season! Gold and Sullivan must be wondering why we bothered signing anybody in the summer!
People said Grant would learn from the Villa game, but from what I saw today, he learnt nothing! The team selection was depressingly negative again and, incredibly, against the Mancs of all teams, he CHOSE to play Spector! Dear God, why, why would you CHOOSE to play The Wank, unless you had put a bet on the opposition to score three!
Now can anybody explain what Spector thought he was doing when he brought down Giggs? The Welshman still had to round Parker before he posed any threat to the goal whatsoever, so Spector made the decision to bring him down from behind. How many appalling errors does Specs have to make before he is consigned to the rubbish heap where he belongs?
Not that Spector was alone in looking useless of course. In truth, Ferguson's boys toyed with us throughout the second half and you had the sense that the worst thing we could do was score. Had we angered them, I fancy they would have notched seven or eight. Three goals was par for the course and meant that Avram matched Zola's score at Old Trafford last season!
The Nani goal was brilliant and the Berbatov goal even better but the defending was woeful in the build up to both. Offensively we offered little or no threat. Dyer ran around a lot but the end result was more often than not disappointing. The shot against the post was good and was brilliantly engineered, with a lovely ball into Cole and a superb lay back by Carlton. But that was it wasn't it? 90 minutes of football and that was the best we could muster.
The substitutions were perverse. Piquionne and Barrera came on too late to alter things and the Stanislas substitution with a minute to play was surreal. Was Avram wasting time to keep the score down to three perhaps?
It was all so depressingly predictable. We weren't crap, we were just mediocre, and when mediocrity meets Manchester United, mediocrity suffers. It is too early to panic but we are rock bottom and if Sullivan & Gold think Parker is the answer, then we are in desperate trouble. Cash in now and use the money to restructure!
Player ratings: Green 6 (He made a hash of that Nani shot that hit the bar. One good save from Fletcher) Spector 3, Gabbidon 6 Upson 6, Ilunga 5 (Still not closing crosses!); Faubert 5, Noble 5, Parker 5, Boa 4, Dyer 7, Cole 5 Subs: Piquionne 5 Barerra 5
We need a better performance against chelsea even if we lose to get some confidence. Spector must not play again he was at fault for the 3rd goal as well watch his positioning. What a awful player
ReplyDeleteI think that is harsh on Spector. Berbatov's finish was brilliant. Yes Spector was the wrong side of him but 99 times out of 100, a player would not have scored that goal!
ReplyDeleteThe third was a superb finish - the defense should have closed down much earlier. But Specs caused the pen that killed our game. Up to that time the defense was not too bad and did it's job quite ok. In addition to that he was way too jittery in 1 on 1 situations...for experienced players it's a joy to play against those nervous defenders.
ReplyDeleteWell, to quote Monty Python and "look on the bright side of life": Our new player, Kieron Dyer did it's job quite well.
Spector is a absolute pile of crap the game needed a diamanti some to create something out of nothing nless we sign a creative player like we did in benayoun when we got promoted then we will be in trouble should of signed petrov if we were letting diamanti go for 2 million or matt taylor would be good signing
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