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West Ham are UEFA Europa Conference League champions! Jack Elderton, Callum Goodall, and Charlie Walsh discuss how it happened, events in Prague, and the beauty of collective expressions of joy in football. This is a snippet. Subscribe to access the full podcast below.
Jack Elderton joins Callum Goodall to preview West Ham’s UEFA Europa Conference League Final against Fiorentina from rainy Prague. We talk though La Viola’s tactics under Vincenzo Italiano, their key players, and a few weaknesses that we think we’ve spotted.
After working together all season on the Hammerlytics series, we teamed up with Hammers Chat to look at our top targets in central midfield should Declan Rice leave this summer. For deep dives on some of these players over the summer, subscribe to Analytics United.
Jacob Gowler – Ivan Toney has been banned for eight months from football related activities for breaching betting rules. Toney will start serving his ban immediately and is set to return January 17th 2024. Brentford’s top scorer, with 20 Premier League goals this season, has provided output that will be extremely difficult to replace, but…
Fraser Spinney – With relegation confirmed, Southampton fans can be forgiven for turning their back on the remainder of this season and hibernating until it draws to a sorry close at home to Liverpool on 28th May. It has been a turgid season in which countless factors have contributed to what is likely to be…
Callum Goodall – West Ham’s quarter-final against KAA Gent really was a tie of two halves – despite the 1-1 scoreline, the Hammers were undoubtedly second best away in Belgium, but an emphatic 4-1 second-leg victory under the London Stadium lights was enough to see them advance to the semi-finals. This time last season, David…
Fraser Spinney – Southampton slumped to a 4-3 defeat away at Nottingham Forest on Monday to all but confirm their relegation from the Premier League, eight points from safety with nine points to play for. It was a game that the Saints started well in but fell victim to a goal on the break from…
Southampton’s inevitable relegation to the Championship has to result in a complete culture change, otherwise the club could continue to spiral.
Jack Elderton – West Ham’s positive run of form came to an end on Wednesday night with a 1-2 defeat to Liverpool but David Moyes’ side will have taken lots of positives from another promising performance. The Hammers went ahead against the run of play in the 12th minute when Lucas Paquetá exchanged passes with…
Jack Elderton – West Ham continued their excellent form with a comfortable 4-0 win over Gary O’Neil’s Bournemouth on Sunday. David Moyes’ side took the lead in just the fifth minute – their first goal in the opening 15 minutes of a Premier League match this season – and with the game suddenly favouring their…