West Ham Utd 3-2 Crystal Palace (08/12/18)

[Voronin]

Keep rotating:

——————Fab
Zaba——Oggy—Diop—-Cresswell
————-Rice——Noble
Antonio————————Anderson
———-Lucas——Carroll

Subs: Chica, Snodgrass, Wilshire, Obiang, Balbuena, Masuaku

[hammerman11]

will be a tough match following their defeat last night. hopefully we can keep the run going. a really important match for us to show where we are going. win this and we will be entering top 10 .

arnie being out is a huge miss for us as he is crucial for how we play.Time for others to step up now.

fab
zab diop balbuena cresswell
snodgrass noble rice
antonio hernandez anderson

subs adrian ogbonna masuaka obiang carroll perez diagana

will be interesting to see if kouyate is as lazy for them as he was us ! need to watch him at corners etc.

2-0 hammers anderson and hernandez to keep the run going.

[dodger]

Keep rotating:

——————Fab
Zaba——Oggy—Diop—-Cresswell
————-Rice——Noble
Antonio————————Anderson
———-Lucas——Carroll

Subs: Chica, Snodgrass, Wilshire, Obiang, Balbuena, Masuaku

You can rotate but it has to be logical.
Antonio played well at right back last night, but hasnt been very good in right midfield this season. Carroll looked pretty rubbish and almost certainly isn’t ready to start. Balbuena should return. Hernandez still looked sharp and was rested for the last half hour. We also scored all our goals with those two on the pitch up front together.

If anyone gets a start who hasn’t recently it’s Diangana. Still, I’d keep him as an impact sub for now.

I’d go:

——————Fab
-Zab——Balbuena—Diop—-Cresswell
————-Rice——Noble
-Snodgrass———————Anderson
———--Perez——Hernandez

[HammerMan2004]

If anyone gets a start who hasn’t recently it’s Diangana. Still, I’d keep him as an impact sub for now.

I’d go:

——————Fab
-Zab——Balbuena—Diop—-Cresswell
————-Rice——Noble
-Snodgrass———————Anderson
———--Perez——Hernandez

Is probably the right answer.

I'd also be happy with Snodgrass dropping in with Rice and Noble, with Diangana and Anderson around Hernandez. But it would be quite harsh to drop Perez off the back of two goals.

[Patito]

dodger

What's the latest on Cresswell?

[S-H]

Is probably the right answer.

I'd also be happy with Snodgrass dropping in with Rice and Noble, with Diangana and Anderson around Hernandez. But it would be quite harsh to drop Perez off the back of two goals.

I think we should stick with two up top to begin with, it's done us well over the last two games.

Nice to have options, to enable us to switch thing up, Diangana from the bench is a great weapon to have.

[steveyrockstar]

Entrails, huh? I know what you lot get up to up there. I've seen the Wicker Man.

Not the Nicolas Cage version I hope

[S-H]

7-1

[sutts07]

So, the last time we won three PL games in a row was..?

Posted this in the Cardiff match thread, hope it's o'k to repeat here in answer to your question.

You missed the most recent in 2016.17, the season before last... (we didn't put any back to back wins together last season at all...!)

Dec 2016
Burnley H 1-0
Hull H 1-0
Swansea A 4-1 on boxing day!

Last time we put four Premier League wins together in a row was the 13/14 season...

Feb 2014
Swansea H 2-0
Villa A 2-0
Norwich H 2-0
Southampton H 3-1

For five wins in a row (getting way too far ahead of ourselves...) you have to go back to our Championship season 11/12 and include the play off semi finals and final.

And if you go all the way back to the 05/06 season we racked up an impressive seven in a row which included five Premiership games and two FA Cup games (some of you may recall the final that year, some of you may have wiped it from your memory!).

https://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.s ... bs=results

[Nick Sneddon]

will be a tough match following their defeat last night.

for them

[sutts07]

I'd bring Zabaleta back in as we will need his experience and guile to stand up to Zaha who I see won another pen last night. That really is his sole aim in a game, run at a full back and trip over their leg if it is offered.

Hopefully Balbuena is back too for the added experience in dealing with the little s**t.

Other than that, it will be tough to justify any major changes. The shape is working (they will most likely go with a 442 also), the players are buzzing and the chances are flowing.

We need to start fast and get them on the back foot. We can't be as careless as we were against Cardiff (throwing everyone forward) as they can hit us on the break with the pace of Zaha and Townsend but we can afford to get at them from the start.

If Arnautovic is out then it has to be Hernandez and Perez really.

Tough call between Antonio and Snodgrass for the place on the right. Both had good games against Cardiff.

[Patito]

I'd bring Zabaleta back in as we will need his experience and guile to stand up to Zaha who I see won another pen last night.

I reckon he was rested last night for that exact reason.

[Aceface]

Squad is still holding up pretty well given as of this morning the injured list contains Arnautovic, Wilshere, Yarmolenko, Cresswell, Fredericks, Lanzini, Sanchez and Reid (and Balbuena was only half fit). Rather than instant league placing improvements, that's what £100m has bought us – the type of leeway we haven't had in donkeys.

The negative is we've barely started the run of games that inevitably adds to that list, so the margin for keeping performances largely unaffected is pretty thin.

[Aceface]

I'd bring Zabaleta back in as we will need his experience and guile to stand up to Zaha who I see won another pen last night. That really is his sole aim in a game, run at a full back and trip over their leg if it is offered.

Hopefully Balbuena is back too for the added experience in dealing with the little s**t.

They're not the most disciplined frontline – given the high line we're using at the minute I expect we'll see a mad number of offside flags against Zaha and Townsend.

[The Old Man of Storr]

Is it too much to hope for 3 wins on the trot?
I hope not. 21 points by early December would be very welcome.
In TOMoS we trust..

Very kind of you , Samba

I think we've more than a good chance of winning our next 6 games , mate which would set us up nicely before the likes of Arsenal , Liverpool and Manchester City come along . Hopefully Arnautovic going down injured last night won't have affected that prediction any as we have able deputies in both Perez and Antonio to fill in if needed . Watford and Brighton will test us but winning breeds confidence and we seem to have that in buckets just now .

Crystal Palace have Won 1 , Drawn 2 and Lost 3 of their last 6 games . They held both Manchester United and Arsenal to a draw and their only victories this season have come against Fulham , Huddersfield and Burnley .

I try to be realistic in my predicting and I would never underestimate any Premier League outfit but we're a team in form and I think we'll win by two clear goals .

Just read that through and I apologise if it came across as arrogant twaddle ! :lol:

[Claret&Blue,Thru&]

Don't we need some hitherto completely useless individual to play and score two goals? Masuaku anybody?

[The Old Man of Storr]

Don't we need some hitherto completely useless individual to play and score two goals? Masuaku anybody?

Perez - Antonio or even Carroll , they all fit the bit , sort of .

[HammerAl]

Fabianski
Zabaleta Balbuena Diop Masuaku
Antonio Rice Snodgrass Anderson
Perez Chicharito

Subs: Adrian, Cresswell(?), Ogbonna, Noble, Obiang, Grady, Carroll

Zabaleta back in. Ogbonna unlucky to miss out but we need more concentration at the back against Palace. Toss up between Noble & Snodgrass but Snoddy just gets the nod for me. Antonio and Perez given the chance to push on after their goals last night.

[Cuenca 'ammer]

unless he's being rested, the skipper didn't do anything last night to be dropped for...

held the team together at a time when we were wobbling....played a nice turn and a brilliant through ball for Masuaku to play that touch pass to Perez for the second..

if he isn't knackered, he stays in the side..Antonio who has had 2 decent games gets the nod after another pretty bleak season over Noble ?

not for me...

Oggie ? did enough but the partnership has to stay, you don't lose your place through injury...

Could move Antonio up top in place of Perez who other than last night has contributed the sum total of naff all..

Fab
Zaba-Balbuena-Diopp-Arthur
Rice
Noble-Snodders
Anderson
Antonio-Chichartio

subs: Adrian etc etc etc...........

[Patito]

Just read that through and I apologise if it came across as arrogant twaddle ! :lol:

It doesn't at all, TOMoS and I agree with all of it.