Match Day Thread West Ham United vs Arsenal - Matchday Thread

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Venue: London Stadium
Date: Sunday April 16th 2023
KO time: 14:00 BST

Overall Record

Wins: 72
Losses: 35
Draws: 40

Last six meetings

Arsenal 3-1 West Ham United
West Ham United 1-2 Arsenal
Arsenal 2-0 West Ham United
West Ham United 3-3 Arsenal
Arsenal 2-1 West Ham United
Arsenal 1-0 West Ham United

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Aside from Zinchenko and Saliba as noticeable absentees, team pretty much as expected. Let’s hope we can get the job done.

 

1-0! Jesus! Lovely team move and tap in from Jesus. Great interplay and controlled passing between Saka, Partey, Odegaard and White who crosses it into Jesus who taps it into an empty net.

 

2-0! Odegaard!

West Ham’s defence are all over the shop. No-one’s tracking Odegaard’s run and Martinelli puts in a perfect cross for our skipper that he volleys home

 

Gabriel Jesus is such a good player.

 

I think in these sorta games we clearly see Holding is the weakest link.

Can't wait to have Saliba back.

 

2-1. Gabriel gives away a silly penalty after Partey moronically gave the ball away on the edge of our box to Rice. So, so unnecessary and stupid.

Utter arrogance from Partey to be so casual there. Idiot.

 

And now he gets a yellow card after losing the ball and hacking Benrahma down. Wtf is he doing?!

 

I’m absolutely fuming. We were in total control, they weren’t getting anywhere near us and now we’ve given them a lifeline back into the game. Now we’re under pressure.

We are complete idiots.

 

HT. 1-2.

I can’t even express how angry I am that we’ve let this happen TWO weeks in a row. In control of the game, have a lapse in concentration and momentum totally swings in the opposition’s favour.

I will fully lose it if we allow what happened last week at Anfield to happen again. Absolutely no excuses to play like that.

Partey has been absolutely diabolical from the 30th minute onward. Truly awful.

The nerves and jitters we’ve showed aren’t befitting of a title winning side…

 

Not a penalty, but the passage of play leading to this was criminal.
Thanks VAR for not doing your job yet again

 

I honestly thought that was handball on the lead up to their penalty.

but really poor from partey to just stop…

And the challenge from Gabriel was also poor.

 

Oh Saka, I love you, but that’s not a good penalty man. That would have knocked the wind out of their sails. Argh.

 

2-2. **** off.

 

Ramsdale has to save that…

 

We’ve shown serious weakness in high pressure moments the last 2 games.

 

Xhaka has these games where everything he does is too ****ing slow.
Its like he can't be bothered

 

****s sake.

I don't think it's a coincidence we look less assured without William Saliba.

 

FT. 2-2.

Well, I know it’s not officially done, but you’d have to say that we’ve blown our chance to win the league and it’s City’s to lose.

Not good enough from the 30th minute onward.

Saka bottled that penalty. If he scores that, we win the game. But obviously it’s not just him. Too many players couldn’t deal with the pressure.

Let’s just focus on securing the best points tally that we can and go again next season.

I have no belief whatsoever we are going to finish with 3 points of City.