West Ham United - Nottingham Forest

[JWJW]

We do not have any midfield outlet......

Worrall keeps giving the ball away........

Even JJS had nowhere to pass to.........

Its too much hoof it up, lose it and then defend until you get it back, then lose the ball again within 30 seconds...repeat repeat repeat.

Our midfield has no creative outlet, I would like to see Scarpa in and either Colback or Freuler out.

You could see JJS was pissed off being subbed......and we looked even worse after that and conceded 4 goals.

The team needs someone who can put their foot on the ball and do something with it in the middle of the park.

The moment JJS went off it all went wrong.

That was all down to Steve Coopers team selection and tactics and he should be man enough to admit he messed up badly.

I assume you were at the game? 

You may or may not be right about some of these points, but JJS was blowing out of his ar$e before he was subbed. Completely understandable considering how long he's been out and the fact he managed around 70 minutes was a bonus. Pushing him too hard could easily cause a repeat of his injury....ask Niakhate how that feels.

Of course we performed poorly 2nd half, but Declan Rice was superb which contributed hugely to their midfield domination. 

Someone has already said earlier all this talk of being more attacking away from home - especially with the injuries we have now - got us battered at Newcastle, Man City and Leicester.  We had a disastrous 15 minutes (again) after SC made an attacking substitution, otherwise we were heading for a dull 0-0 which I would happily have taken prior to the game. 

It's the home form that is important this season. I'm saying that despite the money I've spent travelling all over witnessing our away form.

Ok, but why put on Ayew.

If you are taking off JJS you put on Mangala.

If you want to be more attacking you take off Colback and out on Scarpa.

If you want Ayew on the pitch you can take off Wood.

Really lost me taking off JJS and putting on Ayew.

Immediately then the midfield which was hanging on defensively got completely overrun.

So ultimately Cooper made a balls up with his subs.........however.......on the plus side Moyes will now be their boss until the end of the year and they are shit.....so he might well take them down and save us.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

I have slept on the sub decision but I still can't get my head around it and I am still completely baffled by it.

When Steve did it I said to myself where is Ayew going to play, which position is he going to take up.

5 minutes later we go 2 goals down and I am asking myself the same question and still trying to figure out Ayew's roll following the substitution.

There has been some awful and strange sub decisions over the years but this one takes the biscuit.

[Mist From The Trent]

Cooper got it wrong yesterday for me. He has to stop with his obsession of playing Wood on the left of a front 3. Ayew coming on instead of Danilo, Mangala or even Scarpa is a strange one. We can't start with that midfield 3 together again.
Aurier is a massive miss.

[Uwantlee]

I still can’t get over his interview. Unacceptable is used far too often with our away games. Cooper is allowed to make mistakes of course but I would like him to come out and hold his hands up.
Wood is not a left sided striker he is a central… even better as an impact sub maybe like last weekend. Shelvey for ayew was a joke especially as shelvey looked to be our best player.

With the rest of the squad we have very little choice. Williams is poor but our only rb. Worrall is still finding his way but we haven’t got any other defenders.

Colback was poor yesterday but deserved his chance after the Man City game.

The whole team underperformed yesterday and we were second best all game. But we move on to the next one and have to put it right.

Our home form will be what keeps us in the league but if we are to be n cooper needs to address this away form.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

Yesterday was the fourth time this season that Nottingham Forest conceded three goals in the space of just ten minutes.

Forest had previously conceded three in ten minutes against Arsenal (A), Leicester (A) and Fulham (H).