Johno - Comments

West Ham United

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December 2015/January 2016



Ripped up our 4-2-3-1 formation to 4-1-2-2-1 after our disaster month.

We started the first half so well but their keeper was preventing us from running away with great saves.

Kana-Biyik got us the winner on 70th minutes with a strike inside the box after his header was parried from corner. They kept attacking but we managed to hold on

We travel to West Brom for our match, It was tad boring but Ben Foster was in brilliant form and prevented us leaving with 3 points.

We played Strømsgodset for our final Europa League match of our group, as we already qualified so I gave Cerri his start and bagged 2 goals. And we finished second to AC Milan.

A penalty from Mark Noble was enough to see us beat Hull at home.

Poor performance from us away from home. We just didn't get going and deserved to be beaten.

Swansea's defence played brilliantly against us and a draw was fair in the end. Would have like to won this game.

An mistake from Ravel, which Origi took advantage of by scoring on 23rd minutes to give them the lead. We went behind on 43rd minute with Marko Arnautović scoring with a free kick outside the box, disappointed as he went down far too easy. We was dead and burried when Adam Johnson scored Stoke 3rd goal against us. Ravel pulled one back for us with an header from Matt Jarvis's cross. We pulled back another goal with Zapata striking inside the box after good passing between Ravel, Romero to set up Zapata. We kept pushing for late goal but Stoke held on in the end.

We didn't disgrace ourselves against Man City. We went 2-0 down within 8 minutes, with Eugene Konoplyanka striking on 2nd minutes to score. Mark Noble ended up slicing Konoplyanka's free kick into his own net.

We went 3-0 down after mistake from Ravel, enabled Kompany scoring an header. Zapata pull a goal back for us on 50th minute, took on entire Man City back 4 from half way line and ran toward the box and strikes it into top corner. Mistake from Kana-Biyik, let Jovetic score their fourth goal.

We entered the new year with 2-0 win over Bristol City, with goals in first half from Valencia and Poyet who just came back from long term injury.

Meh, we was hopeless against Everton and was destroyed by Kevin Mirallas getting hat trick and Baines free kick.

Much better performance against Blackburn Rovers. Matt Jarvis got us the winner with an header from Valencia touchline cross.

We finally picked up a away win in the league, We was poor but delighted to pick up 3 points. We went behind with on 12th minutes after Bogdan Stancu beaten our defence in the air to head in Billy Jones's cross.

Zapata got us level term on 41 minutes with a low strike into bottom corner after being put through by Valencia. QPR went down to 10 man on 67th minutes with Maynor Figueroa, sent off for double booking. Lukas Podolski got us the winner with 11 minutes left, Valencia raced down the right hand side and crossed the ball toward the far post where Podolski head the ball in to give us the first away win.

Awful performance from us against Arsenal and deserved to go out. After the game, received the news that Zapata is out for 4-5 months with broken foot after late tackle from Wilshere

Went for 4-4-1-1 against Spurs and delighted to see us beat them with Podolski bagged 2 goals \o/ Had to leave out Valencia and Jarvis as they was knackered so I played Lozano and Downing in their place. We played brilliantly and we could have ran away but Hugo Lloris was in top form. I started Podolski up front as poacher. He put us in the lead on 20th minutes after Arijan Ademi's header from free kick was parried into Podolski way and fired into the goal. He got his second goal on 80th minutes after Radu failed to stop Downing's pass to him, booted it into middle of the net to give us the win over our rival.

Another poor away performance and lucky to leave Carrow Road with a point.

Barclays Premier League table



Europa League First Knockout Round draw



Will be a tough draw against them, hopefully we can make a strong start at home.

Europa League Second Knockout Round draw



Transfers news

Spent heavily in the transfers window, and quite delighted with the new signings especially Lukas Podolski



Cost me 5.25M and I'm quite pleased as he's a good player and will be a good back up to Valencia. I decided to bring him in as Valencia seems to have played every games this season.



Cost me 1.5M from Dinamo, have already made decent impact for us.



Amazed we picked him up for 1M from Arsenal. He was banging goals for them last season and struggled to get in the side. 3 goals in 2 games already



Delighted with that

As you know that Cresswell wanted to join Everton to play in Champions League?



Well, Stoke came in with 5M and Everton with 4.3M so I decided to fuck him over and accepted Stoke and rejected Everton Have that you cunt.

Oh dear...



A very quick conversation and it was over. Good to see him makes sense.

Oh other hand, Cresswell was being a prat.



I told him he ain't leaving and he said he wants to go because he wants to play in CL. I said no chance and I will place you in reserves and kicked up a fuss. Fuck him. But I will sell him if I can get in another left back.

West Ham United

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November 2015



What the hell is going on with my defence in away games

We welcome Anderlecht to Upton Park, we dominated the game with 38 shots at goal with only 13 on target We went behind on fifth minute with a long range shot from Luka Milivojević. We got back on level term with a goal from Matt Jarvis, with a header from Cresswell cross on 15th minutes. Zapata gave us the lead on 39th minutes with a brilliant strike outside the the D line. Zapata got his second goal of the night with an header from Cresswell's cross into the goal on 55th minutes.

Team was pish against Liverpool especially defence was utterly shite.

Only goal from Reid on 50th minutes was enough to see us picked up a win.

Déjà vu all over again against AC Milan. We went 3-1 up against them just like we did against Anderlecht and all of sudden they got 2 late goals to snatch a draw ffs.

After the game, we was confirmed to qualified to knock out stages. 4 points ahead of Anderlecht with a game spare.

Jesus fucking christ, another gash performance, Kyle Walker and Aaron Cresswell was the culprit, Walker has rating of 4.5 and other has 5.0 and Chelsea ran crazy down both sides. Defence was truly pathetic and pointed the blame at them during the press conference.

Barclays Premier League table



Transfers news



Snapped him up for 2.6M as I'm not happy with Cresswell's defending.

Is it just me scouting have been poor on this version? Asked for scout reports and only comes up like that?