Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread

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Well after the disaster of Monday at Brentford, the thought of more West Ham in the same week is enough to put anyone in a bad mood.  The 'pros' always talk about wanting to get bad games out of their system quickly, and this gives them that opportunity, but also sets up a horrible start to the weekend for the rest of us!

Teamwise, Mavro is out with what looked a nasty hamstring injury.  Fullkrug is still broken, and Earthy remains unfit.  Otherwise the rest of the squad are fit from a health perspective....maybe less so from a 'wear the shirt' angle.

Nuno's logic for his inverted fullbacks it's been revealed was to try and counter Brentford's inverted wing thread, by showing them onto the defender's strong foot...the less said about the success of that the better.  And it struggles to explain Irving and Soucek in the pivot, beyond maybe 'they're both tall'.

Anyway, hopefully that's the last of the experimentation and we can revert to what at least appears a bit less shit.  Wouldn't surprise me to see him go with a back 5 in this game though (and what I'll assume for my predicted XI).

Predicted lineup:

Areola

Wan Bissaka    Kilman     Igor   
Summerville                                            Diouf
Magassa Fernandes Paqueta

Soucek

Bowen

Subs: Hermansen, KWP, Todibo, Scarles, Potts, Irving, Guilherme, Wilson, Marshall

The squad is now a real quandary.  We don't have a good CB pairing...Todibo looks hopeless, Kilman and Igor both left footed, with one an unknown and the other weak as the senior CB.  Mavro was signed to be 3rd choice, but he's suddenly the most important man in the back line...a problem in itself.

Summerville is a must have...the only true pace in the side so leaving him out can't be compromised.  If 3 at the back and 3-4-3 was viable, not a problem....but once again we don't have a midfield with a logical two-man pairing.  Add in that Bwoen and Soucek are the only goals, and Paqueta is the only real 'vision' and we are in a bad place with a squad that don't work in combination.

So will he gamble on a bad back two, an untried midfield pair, or leave out one of the 'key' players in Soucek, Bowen, Paqueta, and Summerville.

And as for playing a real striker....

Predicted Score: Leeds 2 : 0 West Ham.

Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst.

COYI!

[threesixty]

The fouls they are getting away with…. This is insane!

[onsideman]

Yeah, this ref is a cսnt alright 

[Massive Attack]

REFS A FUCKING JOKE MASSIVE FOUL DRAG BACK ON SUMMERVILLE

[Full Claret Jacket]

it's extraordinary to hear commentators basically openly calling our players shit.

AMPADU waltzes through a non existant midfield with Irving yards behind him. AMPADU.

Surely the CM has to be changed at half time. It cannot go on like this. He cannot have seen ANYTHING to suggest this should carry on for a minute longer

 

 

 

 

Irvine is an absolute passenger at this level. Hoe can Magassa, Fernandez or Potts be worse? Ball watching, doesnt challenge, watches players go past. Its just poor team selection. 

[Tomshardware]

Everyone could see this performance before a ball was kicked tonight.   We deserve to go down, Bowen can then his move to a decent club which he truly deserves.

[camel-with-3-humps]

Nuno can fuck off. Get out my club. 

Looks defeated already. 

[honky cat]

In every position, they're taller, stronger, faster than us. Even in the preview Sky were looking at Perri not the greatest but 100 times better than mad mads. 

Why do we get it so wrong every time.

[onsideman]

"World class team for a world class stadium"
Baroness cսnt

[goose]

This utter cսnt of a ref is letting them get away with all sorts.

[Keep dreaming]

It's hurts so see how uncomfortable Irving and Soucek operate in the middle.
Ther abilities are close to zero of what is needed.

The ones defending them are nonces, and the one picking them is pisstaking

[Helmut Shown]

This reminds me of the scene in Porky's when Lassie is having a bunk up in the kit room and screaming out and the Basketball players are playing like idiots, just like our shower of shit.

[El Scorchio]

To think we could have had Dyche. 

But no one wanted him. West Ham fans are too grand for the likes of dyche 

It's a measure of how far we've fallen that we are rueing not getting Dyche

[El Scorchio]

it's extraordinary to hear commentators basically openly calling our players shit.

AMPADU waltzes through a non existant midfield with Irving yards behind him. AMPADU.

Surely the CM has to be changed at half time. It cannot go on like this. He cannot have seen ANYTHING to suggest this should carry on for a minute longer

[Massive Attack]

442 for a long time in the Premier League is a suicide formation as Teams get too over run with 2 Strikers up top. Only resort to it if you have the quality players to cope but that's clearly never our current Squad.

[honky cat]

To think we could have had Dyche. 

But no one wanted him. West Ham fans are too grand for the likes of dyche 

[Come On You Irons]

To think we could have had Dyche. This clown needs sacking now. We look worse than under Potter, who would have thought that as possible

 

 

I called for Dyche during pathetic Potter's dying days.

It was logical choice. Of course the idiot Sullivan goes and appoints the only geezer to lose to pathetic Potter for yonks.

We need to step up the protests against the cսnt chairman.

[Nutsin]

That goal should stand. That’s a bollocks decision.

[goose]

lol even VAR hates us.

[Massive Attack]

Any chance of an injury to Soucek and Irving? 

[boleyn8420]

To think we could have had Dyche. This clown needs sacking now. We look worse than under Potter, who would have thought that as possible

[El Scorchio]

That was from a Leeds player. Shouldn't that be a goal?

[threesixty]

Looks like it came off the Leeds guy, not us… ffs!

[Massive Attack]

Oh look, Wilson makes an impact yet again! Nunothing you cսnt!

[goose]

Surprise, surprise our CM can’t keep the ball and can’t keep up with the game.

[Westham67]

Dip in forn since we lost the German