Preview:
With West Ham equally as terrible as ourselves this season who is going to finish top of this London derby?
Fixture:
Sunday 4th May, 14:00
West Ham Vs Tottenham Hotspur
Premier League
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Astro Premier League
Optus Sport
Result: 1-1
W. Odobert (15′)
J. Bowen (28′)
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A game described by all fans as lacklustre and boring, the attitude being shown towards these remaining premiership games is appalling in my opinion.
It shouldn’t matter what position we are in the league or what European fixtures we have in wait, those players should be playing for pride if nothing else.
The only people who appeared to be smiling at the final whistle where the two managers who had that look on there face that said, “yes at least we didn’t lose again”.
If that is the best our B Team can produce then there are a lot of players who need to go along with this manager come end of season.
Spurs scored early on when Tel pressed his defender, forcing an error and then provided the assist for Odobert who couldn’t miss. Despite going a goal up though it was no surprise to see us concede a goal only 15 minutes later with a simple little pass behind the defence. It was a clever finish from Bowen but you would expect Vicario to do better. Next time keep ya legs closed mate! To be fair he pulled off a good save in the second half.
With the game level at 1 a piece neither team or managers looked interested in changing this scoreline and Spurs made just the single change in the second half with Mickey Moore getting a rare appearance off the bench.
It’s hard to find any positives about this game, I’m not a fan of West Ham’s pitch I will say that, it looks so narrow and at times the match resembled a kids match (not for first time this season), with all the players constantly compacted down one side of the pitch.
Without an intelligent midfielder nobody was trying to distribute the ball across the pitch and Odobert was starved of the ball for much of the game.
There’s not a lot more we can say about this game really other than that it was a missed opportunity to climb a position in the table following Utd’s defeat to Brentford. There goes another 3 million Levy!
Entertainment value: 3/10
No idea why I gave it a 3, maybe a point for each goal and an extra one for the bubbles:)
Standout Players: Not this week lol
Next Match:
So, it’s all about Thursdays game now and whoever is braving the weather and making that trip, make sure to take your long johns lol.
But the big question is can we do it? Yes I think so, I believe we’re going to Bilbao, we might lose on the night in Norway but I think we will hold it to a single deficit and our two goal cushion from the first leg will be enough.
Good luck boys! COYS!