West Ham vs Chelsea Official Match Thread

[Ibbyham]

This is the toughest match of our remaining run-in and we need to cut down error. Dawson won't participate due to his suspension and he will find it hard to break back in the squad. Fabianski apologies to our fans for his error yesterday and desperately to amend this coming Saturday evening. I never like West Ham to play away, especially Newcastle at 12.30pm kick-off time as we don't have good record at that time in away match.

Hopefully Masuaku will shake off his minor knock and hope Cressie and Rice will be back soon. Lingard had a cramp and hopefully to recover in time as without him, we are doomed as Lanzini and Benrahma are no where near Lingard level.

Squad:

Fabianski

Coufal
Diop
Ogbonna
Johnson

Noble
Soucek

Fornals
Lingard
Masuaku

Bowen.

Let hope they will give us a good game and stuff those plastics clown team.

COYI

[Noni]

Fingers crossed for no mistakes!

[BlackDiamond]

This is the toughest match of our remaining run-in and we need to cut down error. Dawson won't participate due to his suspension and he will find it hard to break back in the squad. Fabianski apologies to our fans for his error yesterday and desperately to amend this coming Saturday evening. I never like West Ham to play away, especially Newcastle at 12.30pm kick-off time as we don't have good record at that time in away match.

Hopefully Masuaku will shake off his minor knock and hope Cressie and Rice will be back soon. Lingard had a cramp and hopefully to recover in time as without him, we are doomed as Lanzini and Benrahma are no where near Lingard level.

Squad:

Fabianski

Coufal
Diop
Ogbonna
Johnson

Noble
Soucek

Fornals
Lingard
Masuaku

Bowen.

Let hope they will give us a good game and stuff those plastics clown team.

COYI

Excellent intro Ibbs. Chelsea looked very commanding in their semi-final and we will have to be at our very best to compete. In essence Chelsea can rotate their players with no deficiency of quality. We can't rotate and in any case don't have any quality to rotate with.

That doesn't mean it's a lost cause - probable outcome 0-0*

* I predicted 0-4 against Newcastle...

[Ibbyham]

Fingers crossed for no mistakes!

Oggy and Diop should be OK as Dawson has been made quite a few mistakes, 2 own goals, red card and couple of poor marking.

[Dwayne Pipes]

Us to do the Rent boys 2 - 1

[Ibbyham]

This is the toughest match of our remaining run-in and we need to cut down error. Dawson won't participate due to his suspension and he will find it hard to break back in the squad. Fabianski apologies to our fans for his error yesterday and desperately to amend this coming Saturday evening. I never like West Ham to play away, especially Newcastle at 12.30pm kick-off time as we don't have good record at that time in away match.

Hopefully Masuaku will shake off his minor knock and hope Cressie and Rice will be back soon. Lingard had a cramp and hopefully to recover in time as without him, we are doomed as Lanzini and Benrahma are no where near Lingard level.

Squad:

Fabianski

Coufal
Diop
Ogbonna
Johnson

Noble
Soucek

Fornals
Lingard
Masuaku

Bowen.

Let hope they will give us a good game and stuff those plastics clown team.

COYI

Excellent intro Ibbs. Chelsea looked very commanding in their semi-final and we will have to be at our very best to compete. In essence Chelsea can rotate their players with no deficiency of quality. We can't rotate and in any case don't have any quality to rotate with.

That doesn't mean it's a lost cause - probable outcome 0-0*

* I predicted 0-4 against Newcastle...

Totally agreed that our strength in depth is far weaker than the top 6 as top 6 has loads of dosh and making sure their 25 man squads are all very close together compared to us our first 11 and the rest of the 14 the gap is quite big.......Yarmolenko, Anderson, Lanzini, Benrahma and maybe Fredericks are not near as strong as our first 11 of Fabianski, Coufal, Ogbonna, Diop, Cresswell, Johnson, Soucek, Rice, Fornals, Lingard and Antonio. with Bowen and Masuaku closely behind.

The 2 dwarf CANNOT bring our club to top 6 materials and the only thing to sell this club to a wealthy owner that can bring us up to top 6 because if we go to Europa (more than CL), we will struggles in league, like in 2006--07 and 2016-17 for example

Need 9 players to buy to make our strength in depth stronger but knowing our owners can't achieve that, only maybe 1 or even 2 if we are lucky to get.

[palerider]

Fingers crossed for no mistakes!

Oggy and Diop should be OK as Dawson has been made quite a few mistakes, 2 own goals, red card and couple of poor marking.

Dawson has changed from Frank Leboeuf to Frank Spencer in the blink of an eye.

[Towie]

Oggy and Diop should be OK as Dawson has been made quite a few mistakes, 2 own goals, red card and couple of poor marking.

Dawson has changed from Frank Leboeuf to Frank Spencer in the blink of an eye.

We were warned about Dawson, however hard to deny his first 10 games were excellent, last 5 it has been a steady decline to that inept performance yesterday.

[Ibbyham]

Oggy and Diop should be OK as Dawson has been made quite a few mistakes, 2 own goals, red card and couple of poor marking.

Dawson has changed from Frank Leboeuf to Frank Spencer in the blink of an eye.

I don't fully expect Moyes to put Dawson back in the squad once his suspension is over as he will find it hard to break in the squad.

[Flairon]

I hate to say it, but it is hard to see how we get anything out of this game with the way we are bleeding goals of late. Having said that, it would just be like West Ham to go out there and win it.