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West Ham 0-2 Leicester City: Player Ratings
Jack Elderton – West Ham have ended the first half of their season before the World Cup break on a truly dismal run. Three consecutive home defeats to Crystal Palace, Blackburn Rovers and Leicester City put manager David Moyes under significant pressure to use the break to turn things around and hit the ground running…
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West Ham 2-2 Blackburn Rovers: Player Ratings
Jack Elderton – West Ham bowed out of the Carabao Cup on penalties last night against Blackburn Rovers after Angelo Ogbonna missed the twentieth spotkick in an otherwise flawless shootout. The Hammers only have themselves to blame for the result as their own mistakes created Rovers’ best moments in the match, mostly in the first…
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Podcast: Fixing West Ham (Again)
Jack Elderton is joined by Callum Goodall to discuss West Ham’s terrible performance against Crystal Palace. What are the major issues and how can they be fixed? Plus a bonus helping of managerial ideas – mostly complaining about the notion of Scotty P…
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West Ham 1-2 Crystal Palace: Tactical Review
Jack Elderton – By Jack Elderton
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West Ham 1-2 Crystal Palace: Player Ratings
Jack Elderton – Boos rang out at the London Stadium as David Moyes’ West Ham were defeated by a last-gasp Michael Olise goal on Sunday. The Hammers had played without any real intensity throughout and although Olise’s winner was somewhat fortuitous, his shot took a huge deflection off of Aaron Cresswell, Palace will feel that…
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The Allure of Carnage
Jack Elderton – After the Manchester United match last week, social media was once again awash with calls for David Moyes’ position to be considered amidst claims he can take this group of players no further. Many have pointed to Moyes’ long term away record against the big six and his supposed reluctance to open…
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FCSB 0-3 West Ham: Player Ratings
Jack Elderton – David Moyes was given the chance to start a couple of youth players last night as West Ham had already progressed from their Europa Conference League group before facing FCSB. Sixteen year-old Oliver Scarles started at left wing-back and wowed fans with his ability on the ball throughout while Divin Mubama featured…
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Podcast: Another Narrow Defeat
Jack Elderton is joined by Callum Goodall to discuss West Ham’s 0-1 defeat to Manchester United with topics including Flynn Downes’ recent role behind the striker, counter-attacking efficiency, Gianluca Scamacca’s role post-turnover, and the eternal David Moyes debate.
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Manchester United 1-0 West Ham: Player Ratings
Jack Elderton – West Ham fell to their seventh defeat of the season in familiar fashion away at Old Trafford on Sunday night. The Hammers created a handful of excellent opportunities only to find Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea in outstanding form to protect his side’s one goal lead. It’s the fifth time this…
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Liverpool 1-0 West Ham: Player Ratings
Jack Elderton – After an impressive second half performance at Anfield, West Ham somehow managed to come away with nothing on Wednesday. There were some standout individual performances as the Hammers went toe-to-toe with Jürgen Klopp’s team for periods and, though the team didn’t manage to secure the right result, the team showing will have…