West Ham (H) Carabao Cup 26/08: Build Up & Match Thread

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Childish amusement at the Turkish (?) commentary i am listening to, very definitely pronouncing Hwang, WANK every time he does something.

 

[James]

Hwang took a similar bad penalty against Preston if memory serves me right

 

[AndyWolves]

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Great skill from JRB to win the pen.

West ham keeper will be disappointed on the rebound

 

[Jolemai]

Watching on TV, Fields of Gold felt like shopping centre music. Also, what has Lopez done besides a few set pieces and shoving Gomes over?

 

[Alan]

Childish amusement at the Turkish (?) commentary i am listening to, very definitely calling Hwang, WANK every time he does something.

Didn’t realize Dan spoke Turkish

 

[jd1981]

Can’t be more than 15k there?

Won’t be far of next seasons crowds

 

[Jinky]

Expecting much more from Arias & Fer Lopez, tbf. I know it’s early days.

Love Yerson. Just want him to stay fit.

 

[Loki]

Pure inspiration from the skipper. I think they need Killman on to deal with our attacking threat. Mosquera having a decent game.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Can’t be more than 15k there?

Tbf that isn't that bad for our opening League Cup game (who gives a shit about watching West Ham, there is no novelty)

While we've been a PL team:

2003: Darlington, 10,232
2009: Swindon, 11,416
2010: Southend, 10,284
2011: Millwall, 7,748
2018: Leicester, 21,562
2019: Reading, 20,702
2020: Stoke, N/A (Covid, though I did pay £10 to watch a stream of Fabio Silva. Possibly the worst purchase I have ever made)
2021: Tottenham, 28,798 (loads of novelty here because we're still in the realm of us actually being allowed to go to games again)
2022: Preston, 21,946
2023: Blackpool, 20,605
2024: Burnley, 19,236

 

[Loki]

Childish amusement at the Turkish (?) commentary i am listening to, very definitely pronouncing Hwang, WANK every time he does something.

About right.

 

[prawnking]

Expecting much more from Arias & Fer Lopez, tbf. I know it’s early days.

Love Yerson. Just want him to stay fit.

Don't think Lopez has been too bad, he's got stuck in where he can and decent set piece delivery. Arias quiet so far.

I've enjoyed watching Mosquera and RG get game time

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Arias and Lopez just don’t get possession in advanced areas. We just don’t seem to be able to pass our way past the half way line. That’s why ball carriers like Cunha and RAN were so important to how we played last season.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

It's daft, but that should count as an assist for Hwang.

 

[Jinky]

Our XP before the penalty was 0.09. As I said, we never look like scoring. We create nothing.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Our XP before the penalty was 0.09. As I said, we never look like scoring. We create nothing.

Don’t think we’ve reached XG of 1 in two and a half games

 

[Jinky]

Soucek scores his standard goal against us. We are so, so shit.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Pathetic defending.

 

[wanderer89]

Kyle Walker-Cafu with the assist.

 

[Jinky]

Walker-Peters assist

 

[Jack Regan]

That's what having a right winger at wing back gets you.