[Albion] West Ham United vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[Bodian]

The atmosphere is horrible…. How can 60k people make so little noise??

Because nothing is happening?

Not even sure how they managed to find a whole minute of added time!

 

[BevBHA]

A boring first half. Van Hecke our best player by a country mile, he’s been excellent. Buonanotte and Steele the picks of the rest of them. Other than that, very pedestrian and ordinary.

 

[US Seagull]

Feels like someone will nick a scrappy goal at some point.

Could we pull off a smash and grab? Feels like a while since we've had one.

 

[BN41Albion]

Well that was dire but glad to be in at 0-0 and chance to improve 2nd half... WH despite success under Moyes are fecking awful to watch under him

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Buonanotte spends too much time writhing on the ground after every challenge. Surely he’s been here long enough to know that he’s not going to get the decisions he did in Argentina?

 

[Frutos]

Not the most thrilling 45 mins of football I've ever seen.

 

[Albion my Albion]

I'd take 0-0 now. An away point at an in-form team, and a clean sheet.

Our defence makes too many mistakes for a clean sheet.

 

[London Irish]

Good for us tho, West Ham playing their away tactics. Good compliment to us. We’ve not got much going to be fair so you can’t say Moyes has got it wrong. Lots could change with that tactical plan in the second half, the old Mike Tyson aphorism

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Pretty even although we had the better chances and Gross should have scored.

Bounanotte is turning into an exciting player, give it a year and I think he will be amazing.

 

[Mancgull]

They should have.

Important touch from Welbeck there, I think.
It’s been very congested which is West Ham’s style. Need to keep our concentration.
Facundo has been good.
Another thing that hasn’t helped us how slow the pitch is which has slowed us down in our passing.

 

[Driver8]

Safe to say if I wasn’t an Albion fan I’d be watching the darts by now.

 

[dstanman]

Not the best, but still in it at 0-0 and West Ham nothing to write home about

 

[Hugo Rune]

I’m really not sure who we could bring on to improve the situation?

 

[Sheebo]

Done well with an obviously scratch team - just need to sharpen up a bit and look vulnerable to them crossing it in as per. Some of the passing and decision making has been off too but still dominating the ball with 10 or so out - we need to appreciate how good we are now as this never used to happen a few years back with a full side out!

 

[Gabbafella]

Well that was cack.

 

[Krafty]

Difference between today and Tottenham was that we were more direct.

Need to be quicker if we want to score goals and be less pedestrian.

 

[Bodian]

Safe to say if I wasn’t an Albion fan I’d be watching the darts by now.

My stream forced me to for a while......

 

[giveusfalmerplease]

can anyone tell me the formation though because i aint got a clue. 3/4 of that match Milner was playing further upfield than Pedro. . Hammers though being clever packing the centre of the pitch forcing us wide and since we dint have any natural wide players we not making much of an impact. Personally i would move Pedro onto the wing and push hinshelwood into the middle for the start and see how it goes. Dont see Welbeck staying on much longer. Yes he hasnt received much of the ball but hes never been a poacher to go looking for it.

 

[London Irish]

Pretty even although we had the better chances and Gross should have scored.

Bounanotte is turning into an exciting player, give it a year and I think he will be amazing.

He’s excellent at the moment - good that he toughed out a slightly fallow spell to emerge as a player who can contribute

 

[nwgull]

I'd take 0-0 now. An away point at an in-form team, and a clean sheet.

#metoo

With the injuries we've accumulated and a break coming up, this game is in free-hit territory.