West Ham now firmly in relegation scrap after poor City performance
A few games ago I started wondering where West Ham will get the points to survive from. Now I’m hoping everyone else slips up.
When we won at Southampton I felt that West Ham would stay up pretty easily. When we drew at Chelsea I thought we had turned a corner and was looking up the table. Now I’m hoping Huddersfield, Swansea and Southampton conspire to play awful football for the rest of the season so we don’t go down. What’s gone on?
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Once again we are drawn into a proper relegation scrap at the end of the season, paying the price for lack of ambition. We signed cost effective players rather than trying for bigger names, and have hired a negative manager to try and solve our issues. The club have three games left, and I am worried about not picking up another point.
Everton are our final game, and I’m sure Big Sam would love to send us down. If it goes down to that final game and we need a win, I am not at all confident. They’ve also seen an upturn in form of late, and Allardyce’s teams have always been hard to beat.
Before that we have Manchester United at home, and that’s a really strange fixture. They are a good side, and on their day they’ve shown they can beat anyone. But under Mourinho they’re strangely inconsistent as well. We might be able to grab a point, but I don’t see us keeping out any side that contains Lukaku.
Which means our real chance of points comes against Leicester. We need to get a win away from home to cement our Premier League status. They did lose their last game 5-0 to Palace, and they have nothing to play for at all. However I worry that Moyes will go defensive again, and we will miss the chance to really attack a team that may have more of its members looking at the World Cup than the Premier League table.
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But the fact remains I am worried. The club is in a poor state and that is not just one thing, but a culmination of almost every decision that the club has made over the past few years. We can’t keep relying on Arnautovic to bail us out.