West Ham United beat Nottingham Forest 3-2 at the London Stadium yesterday, but the football on display left a lot to be desired at times.
David Moyes watched on from the sidelines with pure elation when West Ham took the lead against Nottingham Forest inside the first three minutes, but then the boys just stopped playing football!
The Hammers allowed Forest back into the game and the visitors found themselves 2-1 up midway through the second-half.
That’s when we turned things around. Jarrod Bowen equalised instantly from a James Ward-Prowse corner, before Moyes made an attacking substitution to try and force the win.
Tomas Soucek headed home the winner from yet another Ward-Prowse delivery, and the three points were secured in the process.
However, it was a tough watch for large chunks of the game. Many fans were blaming Moyes yet again but the Scot has suggested that even he didn’t enjoy the football on display yesterday…
David Moyes suggests he’s not to blame for dire West Ham football
The Hammers manager addressed the media yesterday after our come from behind 3-2 Premier League win against Forest.
And the Scot admitted that he was bored himself watching the football that his team produced inside the first-half, as quoted by WHUFC.com:
“We hadn’t played well enough in the first half. We weren’t quick enough. Was it a bit to do with a little carry over from Thursday? It could be, but also it could be Nottingham Forest leaving us on the ball a bit. I thought we played okay but we were that slow in the first half that I was bored myself watching it at times.”
Moyes has clearly implied there that the slow, laborious passing is not on him, and rather the players who are not being dynamic enough for his liking.
The bottom line as far as I’m concerned is that the buck stops with the manager. We all know the kind of football Moyes has deployed throughout his career.
And it must have reached a point now whereby the players are on auto pilot after so many years of listening to Moyes’s instructions.
He is a defensive coach who instils hard work and defensive responsibility into his players first and foremost. That’s fair enough and it has obviously served us well in the past, especially last season!
However, to suggest that the boring football being played by West Ham is anyone else’s fault other than his own is utterly laughable.
