[PL] West Ham (A): Post Match

[gratziani]

Everyone keeps saying about having Benteke up front is causing the problems but i mentioned earlier he did not start against Newcastle or Watford and we were just as bad in those games.

It seems the system we are playing is causing us problem with three players who take up the same positions and don't want to play wide.

Best we played was Soton and that was with two strikers on the pitch, maybe a change of formation is the way forward with what we have at our disposal

[Chris]

He did start v Newcastle, he was stood still when Moreno put in that dangerous cross remember, though yeah for sure he's not the only problem.

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Everyone keeps saying about having Benteke up front is causing the problems but i mentioned earlier he did not start against Newcastle or Watford and we were just as bad in those games.

It seems the system we are playing is causing us problem with three players who take up the same positions and don't want to play wide.

Best we played was Soton and that was with two strikers on the pitch, maybe a change of formation is the way forward with what we have at our disposal

It's not just him it's the attacking unit as a whole, if we play 3 behind a striker or a false 9 or whatever we need the other attacking players to get into the box, and make runs behind the defence and that isn't happening. Look at our attacking midfielders PL goal return:
Coutinho 5
Firmino 1
Lallana 0
Ibe 0
Milner 2 (1 pen)
Henderson 1

That is nowhere near good enough

[gratziani]

It's not just him it's the attacking unit as a whole, if we play 3 behind a striker or a false 9 or whatever we need the other attacking players to get into the box, and make runs behind the defence and that isn't happening. Look at our attacking midfielders PL goal return:
Coutinho 5
Firmino 1
Lallana 0
Ibe 0
Milner 2 (both pens)
Henderson 1

That is nowhere near good enough

Agree with you on the lack of goal scoring, that makes depressing reading nine goals between the lot of them with 20 games played.

[danperkins]

Yeah that's terrible production levels.

[Mattshark]

It's not just him it's the attacking unit as a whole, if we play 3 behind a striker or a false 9 or whatever we need the other attacking players to get into the box, and make runs behind the defence and that isn't happening. Look at our attacking midfielders PL goal return:
Coutinho 5
Firmino 1
Lallana 0
Ibe 0
Milner 2 (both pens)
Henderson 1

That is nowhere near good enough

Milner scored v Villa (not a pen).

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Milner scored v Villa (not a pen).

So he did, I must have been getting confused with one of the European games