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Post by staggerstag on Oct 24, 2020 10:24:46 GMT
Wake up, yer rotters, there's a game on. But there's been so much football this week that staying in your beds is a not unreasonable option.
West Ham and City 10th and 11th, same points, 7, Hammers +4 GD, City a game in hand.
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Post by sdm3 on Oct 24, 2020 10:28:29 GMT
Let's see if the Hammers can continue their blistering (by their standards) form. My head tells me no; my heart doesn't give a toss.
Aguero will score his first PL goal in a while.
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Post by staggerstag on Oct 24, 2020 10:54:54 GMT
West Ham : Fabianski, Coufal, Balbuena, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Masuaku, Bowen, Soucek, Rice, Fornals, Antonio.
Subs: Yarmolenko, Lanzini, Noble, Haller, Diop, Fredericks, Randolph.
Man City: Ederson, Walker, Dias, Garcia, Joao Cancelo, Bernardo Silva, Rodri, Gundogan, Mahrez, Aguero, Sterling.
Subs: Stones, Zinchenko, Steffen, De Bruyne, Torres, Foden, Palmer.
Ref : Anthony Taylor (Cheshire) 12 yellows and 1 red in four Premier League outings, backed by comedy duo Banks and Davies in the VAR hut.
West Ham 11/2
Man City 4/9
Draw 4/1
Team Performance pts
West Ham
under 20 - 10/11
20-30 - 4/1
over 30 6/4
Man City
under 70 1/1
70-80 11/2
over 80 6/4
WIN 25
DRAW 10
GOAL 15
CORNER 3
CLEAN SHEET 10
SCORE BEFORE 20:00 10 max
YELLOW -5
RED CARD -15
Scott Murray says :
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Post by staggerstag on Oct 24, 2020 10:57:49 GMT
Well, he got that wrong - De Bruyne warming the bench.
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Post by sdm3 on Oct 24, 2020 11:50:07 GMT
Michail Antonio puts West Ham 1-0 up with an amazing goal.
Normally this would be a shock result - this season, no one would bat an eye.
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Post by staggerstag on Oct 24, 2020 11:55:45 GMT
Antonio latches onto Coufel's cross and executes a top-notch overhead kick straight into the net from yards out on '18. There was a suspicion of handball in the build-up on Coucek's part but common sense prevailed and the goal stands for one-nothing Hammers.
Pep Guardiola duly strikes a kneeling pose as Rodin's The Thinker on the touchline. Look at him with his fist jammed under his chin.
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Post by staggerstag on Oct 24, 2020 12:07:30 GMT
Anthony Taylor plays advantage as West Ham's Rice surges forward on the attack but can't break free of Gundagon's cynical assault on his shirt. The attack is foiled but Taylor doesn't go back to book Gundagon. That's a booking if ever you saw one. Raheem Sterling must now be thinking it'll be Christmas come early for City when he next falls over in the box.
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Post by staggerstag on Oct 24, 2020 12:20:27 GMT
Taylor blows up on a very good first half for battling West Ham.
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Post by staggerstag on Oct 24, 2020 12:31:09 GMT
Team performance points as it stands
West Ham 53
Man City 9
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Post by sdm3 on Oct 24, 2020 12:33:57 GMT
Interesting note on this game: it's the first time Pep has named an unchanged team in 3 years (October 2017).
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Post by staggerstag on Oct 24, 2020 12:35:21 GMT
The players emerge for the second half. Guardiola is giving animated instructions to more than one of his players as they take to the pitch.
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Post by sdm3 on Oct 24, 2020 12:40:57 GMT
Foden with the equalizer from Cancelo's squared pass. 1-1.
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Post by staggerstag on Oct 24, 2020 12:43:41 GMT
Sub Foden levels it up in the early second half minutes, twisting to latch onto Cancelo's low cross, greeting it with his right foot and finishing powerfully with his left. A well-taken equalizer there on '51.
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Post by staggerstag on Oct 24, 2020 12:45:25 GMT
Moyes getting nervous now as City play the ominous passing game.
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Post by staggerstag on Oct 24, 2020 12:53:04 GMT
City's Walker takes a pot-shot on '61 but Fabianski is comfortably behind it as West Ham continue to defend with the odd attempt at a counter.
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Post by staggerstag on Oct 24, 2020 12:54:28 GMT
De Bruyne looks like he's coming on.
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Post by staggerstag on Oct 24, 2020 12:56:40 GMT
West Ham are at 10/1 for the win. But you never know. The expression on Guardiola's face should Hammers pot another would be worth the admission fee alone, if there was one.
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Post by staggerstag on Oct 24, 2020 12:58:26 GMT
De Bruyne comes on but not Yarmalenko drives one from the edge of the area, but it sails sadly over the bar for West Ham.
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Post by staggerstag on Oct 24, 2020 13:11:00 GMT
Sterling goes down like a sack of shite under the harmless challenge from Ogbonna. Sterling must have thought he was in the penalty area.
But the free-kick comes to nothing.
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Post by staggerstag on Oct 24, 2020 13:16:25 GMT
Fornals for West Ham streaking forward on '85! He's on for some man-on-man action with Ederson. Surely! No, he gets nervous and his attempted lob over the keeper is poor and Ederson gathers without complication. Dear oh dear, that should have been 2-1.
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