After a battle to sign in and download Now TV my voucher is eventually accepted and it's off to an empty London Stadium, where the murals at least make the ground appear slightly more enclosed.
Haller and Ogbonna are injured already and there's mysteriously no sign of Snodgrass or Masuaku. Jeremy Ngakia is selected despite threatening to leave on June 30, which might be a ploy by Moyes to persuade him to stay.
After both sets of players take the knee, which is good to see, the first half is pretty poor with Wolves dominating early on. Mark Noble creates a chance for Fornals after 12 minutes but the Spaniard blazes wildly over the bar. West Ham look very rusty though, with Anderson and Fornals struggling. The main positive is that Rice has looked at home at centre back and the side has defended quite well, while creating very little.
West Ham actually get a shot on target in the second half when Jeremy Ngakia, who's played reasonably well, tests the keeper with a long range effort. But it all goes wrong when Traore comes on. After an early run and cross as a warning, the Wolves man then beats Fornals and Cresswell on the right before sending in a perfect cross for Jiminez to head home. Diop should have been tighter on his man.
West Ham stage a slight revival and win a couple of corners. Rice forces a save with a far-post header and a fine cross by Lanzini, who looks better than either Anderson or Fornals, is not met by any striker. Too late Antonio makes one of his bulldozing runs and fires just over.
It's all over when Traore finds Doherty on the left, Creswell isn't close enough and the right-back's cross is brilliantly volleyed home by Neto. Back of the bloody Neto. Wolves look what they are, a top six side, and deserve the win.
"We are so going down," suggests Mystic Matt on WhatsApp and he might be right. It's looking bad. This looked like a side struggling in a pre-season friendly and WHU have to find some rhythm and drive fast. Haller looked a lot better in his absence.
After three months of tranquility it's just like West Ham to bring the eternal note of sadness in. At least we can now all remember what it's like to have our weekends ruined. Things have to improve at Spurs on Tuesday.
PLAYER RATINGS: Fabianski 6; Ngakia 6 (Fredericks n/a), Diop 5, Rice 7, Cresswell 5: Anderson 4 (Lanzini 6), Noble 6, Soucek 6, Fornals 4 (Yarmolenko n/a); Antonio 5, Bowen 5.
5 comments:
Wafer thin squad. Haller out, Oggy out means we have to try for a point. Guardiola would do the same with that squad. What I'm saying is, if we go down let Moyes get a young hungry squad together, like Wolves, like sheff u etc etc
It's top heavy with the same type of midfielders and not enough strikers. Wolves spent their money much better...
Defensively we were good in the first half although predictably we created very little going forward. We were embarrassingly tame and its going to be very close right to the end of this weird season.
Wolves were good and deserved to win this game easily, hopefully it will act as a wakeup call to our lads who can actually save themselves later, playing lower half opposition. COYI
Yes all rests on the games against Norwich, Burnley, Newcastle, Watford and Villa. And someone like Anderson, Fornals or Haller (if fit) finally justifying their price tag...
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