It was the sort of miss you see every week across multiple games. Nothing special.
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Thomas Frank - Head Coach
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Ralph Coates
... whereas that cross he put in with the outside of his boot that led to Odobert and Spence unable to convert; that was special, and he's done those before.
Mikey10
Rafael Van Der Vaart
Not hitting the target from a few yards out when unmarked looked pretty special to me, especially from a player who doesn’t feel he’s being given a fair crack. Needs to be taking those chances (or, at the very least, be working the keeper) if he wants to secure a starting place.
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Gudni Bergsson
absolute dereliction of duty our board keeping him for tonight. On top of that, shows there's zero football knowledge with the board and he's been struggling for month, to have no alternative plan is just... shocking.
Mikey10
Rafael Van Der Vaart
SpurMeUp
Erik Thorstvedt
To think that Frank swapped a player who’s developing well under him but not putting the ball in the back of the net, for a
More experienced out and out striker. Gosh what an idiot
Finney Is Back
Paul Stewart
This is surely some sort of joke?
WTF do Charrington, Collecott, Turner and Hinson know about football management?
If we trust Lange as our DoF then the manager needs to be his recommendation and appointment. If we don't trust Lange to appoint a decent manager then we should be replacing him with a better DoF and getting their recommendation for who our new manager should be.
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Paul Stewart
Not as many as West Ham though.... their XG was double ours... I wouldn't be surprised if that was West Ham's highest XG of the season*.. Yet apparently Frank has blunted our attack to fix the defence!
* Just checked and I've done us an injustice, West Ham did manage a higher XG than Saturday on one previous occasion this season - at home to Burnley.
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much as it would be a nice thing to have, I agree we're not there - the truth is though that it indicates the issues that we have are the same for all clubs at points.
MartyFunkhouser
Steve Sedgley
The fluffed shot into his path made me chuckle, almost as much as Vicario throwing one into his net, you have to laugh or you cry
Mikey10
Rafael Van Der Vaart
Sorry - don't follow that?To think that Frank swapped a player who’s developing well under him but not putting the ball in the back of the net, for a
More experienced out and out striker. Gosh what an idiot
Probably me - sleep deprived!
SteveAWOL
Tommy Harmer
Not as many as West Ham though.... their XG was double ours... I wouldn't be surprised if that was West Ham's highest XG of the season.. Yet apparently Frank has blunted our attack to fix the defence!
Seems that the Frank-Engine is no match for Nuno Express at set pieces…
Finney Is Back
Paul Stewart
Indeed.... XG of 0.11 A "one in ten" type chance. Fact that people are clinging on to things like that as reasons why we were unlucky or deserved to win shows how bare the cupboard is. West Ham's XG was 2 x higher than Spurs' at the weekend, that is one of the worst three teams (though I, probably wrongly, exclude ourselves from that bunch) in the league, who haven't won for 10 games, playing away from home.
SteveAWOL
Tommy Harmer
I rewatched the entire match on Sky Sport’s Game Of The Day when I got home from WHL on Saturday night and couldn’t help thinking how many goals that Son would’ve scored when presented with similar opportunities.
Really is quite remarkable how consistently the squad has been downgraded in recent years with the transfer committee repeatedly speculating on youngsters who are years away from reaching the level required to start for a team aspiring to compete for top 4 in PL; the grim reality is that most of them won’t and shall join the likes of Gil, Solomon, Bergwijn, N’jie, N’Koudou, Danjuma et al at mid-table clubs.
Mikey10
Rafael Van Der Vaart
Yip. There were more than enough chances to win the West Ham game, as has been the case in our last few matches.
There are quite a few aspects of our game which need to improve a lot under Frank; however, the MOTD highlights reminded me that there were shots from outside the box on Saturday, lots of passages of play through the middle which resulted in opoortunities, and a couple (Tel and Spence) which absolutely should have resulted in goals - and would have with Kane or Son on the end of them. The extent to which those two papered over the cracks really is clear now.
Finney Is Back
Paul Stewart
More than enough chances for us to win if we were very lucky....
More than enough chances for the opposition to win unless we were being very lucky...
SpurMeUp
Erik Thorstvedt
It’s been the theme since the first game of the season: our play in the final third isn’t at the required level. Some of that may be on Frank, but there are also clear confidence and quality issues with the attacking players.
Over the long term, I think Frank is excellent at developing players. How many top attackers has Brentford sold after he turned them into dynamite? In the short term, though, he doesn’t seem able to transform players overnight. Managers like Redknapp or Pochettino are probably better at injecting immediate confidence and belief. Frank, on the other hand, tends to deliver more permanent skill development, but it takes time.
It is a very tough ask to turn the tanker around without senior players and a fan base who aren't on your side. We'll be in the game tonight, but will probably lack that bit of quality again. If the fans get behind the side, anything is possible.
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Paul Stewart
Our play in both the final third isn't at the required level, neither is our play in our own third (West Ham their second highest XG of the whole season).... Oh and guess what?.... our play in the middle third isn't at the required level either.
SteveAWOL
Tommy Harmer
Last season we also conceded first in this fixture but all that was required to turn the game around was to present Son and Kulusevski the ball around their penalty box and they’d do the rest. Also helped that Udogie had yet to succumb to his third hamstring injury in 20 months plus Bissouma wasn’t on the laughing gas!
We actually got the ball into their area more this weekend than last season, which just helps to show the difference between having elite attackers rather than kids who are still learning the ropes… although would be nice if there was a better structured pattern of play from Frankball, which the chaos of AngeBall at least wasn’t lacking.
