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
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!
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 22:34
by eusebiovic
Did we actually sign Todibo? Or was it as I suspect this bloke instead?
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 22:33
by bell
What did Bowen say?
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
El Scorchio" wrote: ↑24 Oct 2025, 22:30
Bowen's just called a load of his teammates out live on the box. Good on him.
Sounds clear there's some sort of fucking mess in the dressing room and players who just are not pulling their weight.
Of course it was him late on that almost got us back in to it by assisting the goal. Without him we would have been relegated ages ago. Don't deserve the poor lad.
Yup. If they all applied themselves like him we would have no problems at all.
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 22:32
by honky cat
Why don't they ask Jarrod about the starting 11, the manager.
It's just a load of platitudes. Rolling sleeves up. Sorry he's said nothing
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Mad Dog" wrote: ↑24 Oct 2025, 22:22
Didn't see any of it. Did he play scarles on the fucking right again?
I don’t know why but I decided to watch the last half hour. We were powderpuff up top which is just as much a concern as our weak defence and slow midfield.
Scarles apparently stated on the right again. Binned off after 25 minutes. A promising young career in ruins. Incredible when you compare him with Lewis Skelly.
He wasn't binned off. He dislocated his shoulder while being fouled which wasn't given.
He was likely about to be the sacrificial lamb anyway, because he was having a torrid time in a bonkers position/situation again
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 22:31
by Massive Attack
El Scorchio" wrote: ↑24 Oct 2025, 22:30
Bowen's just called a load of his teammates out live on the box. Good on him.
Sounds clear there's some sort of fucking mess in the dressing room and players who just are not pulling their weight.
Of course it was him late on that almost got us back in to it by assisting the goal. Without him we would have been relegated ages ago. Don't deserve the poor lad.
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 22:31
by eusebiovic
Sir Alf" wrote: ↑24 Oct 2025, 22:20
Fernandes - Potts - Magassa and Paqueta
We said they 3 from those 4 should be the centre mid starters every game. Nuno proved it by picking just the 2 slowest we’ve got.
Irvine is not PL level and its over for Soucek. A slow player even when young but time has caught up.
Wilson has to play up top. A 33 year low old crock but yhe only forward we have. Leeds are awful though but we made them look good at times. Kilman and Scarles at fault for the goals but Soucek / Irvine I still cannot believe he started with them again? It looked like he deliberately wanted to make us as weak as possible im centre midfield?
Other observations, Diouf aint a good one on one defender, our CBs are weak, Summerville should only be an impact sub not a starter. He did nothing much of note imo
The summary though is that the manager lost us that game and we are still destined to be relegated.
See you at the bunting parade over the weekend, for the goal we scored.
Yep, picking any one of Guido, JWP, Irving, Soucek immediately puts the team at a disadvantage. In the past we've actually had a combination of 3 out of those (minus the jock)
As for our central defenders...
To quote the late great Rik Mayall...
FUCKING HELL!
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 22:30
by El Scorchio
Bowen's just called a load of his teammates out live on the box. Good on him.
Sounds clear there's some sort of fucking mess in the dressing room and players who just are not pulling their weight.
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 22:28
by honky cat
Todibo it's like he's fucking baked.
Him, kilman, the bones of £80m down the shitter, they have to be replaced.
Paqueta clearly can't be arsed for his farewell season . Not that he's ever been arsed.
All need to be gone in January.
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Mad Dog" wrote: ↑24 Oct 2025, 22:22
Didn't see any of it. Did he play scarles on the fucking right again?
I don’t know why but I decided to watch the last half hour. We were powderpuff up top which is just as much a concern as our weak defence and slow midfield.
Scarles apparently stated on the right again. Binned off after 25 minutes. A promising young career in ruins. Incredible when you compare him with Lewis Skelly.
Difference being their cunty manager actually plays their kid in his rightful position. Scandelous what he's done to Scarles confidence and now out with a nasty injury it looks like trying too hard to get us back in to it with that late excellent run forward before being fouled.
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 22:25
by Iron Duke
Mad Dog" wrote: ↑24 Oct 2025, 22:22
Didn't see any of it. Did he play scarles on the fucking right again?
I don’t know why but I decided to watch the last half hour. We were powderpuff up top which is just as much a concern as our weak defence and slow midfield.
Scarles apparently stated on the right again. Binned off after 25 minutes. A promising young career in ruins. Incredible when you compare him with Lewis Skelly.
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 22:25
by Massive Attack
Had Potter kept Potts in the Team from the start of the season following his decent Pre-season, I reckon it would have got us going with how he was calmly popping it about for fun. For Potter (and Nuno) to keep overlooking him has set our season right back. Keep him in the Team, the boy has got it!
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
With the exception of our fans, EVERYBODY involved in that catastrophe tonight should hand their heads in shame. Manager, coaches, players, fitness staff etc. Absolutely abysmal.
Not even close to Premier League standard.
Potts did nothing wrong when he came on. He can hold his head high.
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 22:22
by Mad Dog
Didn't see any of it. Did he play scarles on the fucking right again?
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 22:21
by Massive Attack
Iron Duke" wrote: ↑24 Oct 2025, 22:20
Paqueta has never been that good for us. Apart from the Euro final and the assist. The rest of the time he msinly loses the ball and falls to the ground. The worst thing that happened was being charged at a time when we could have cashed in. Typical West Ham luck.
I kept saying we should have sold him when we could and yet we decide to keep the liability. Was gutted we never tried to get him out the door once the FA cleared him.
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 22:20
by Sir Alf
Fernandes - Potts - Magassa and Paqueta
We said they 3 from those 4 should be the centre mid starters every game. Nuno proved it by picking just the 2 slowest we’ve got.
Irvine is not PL level and its over for Soucek. A slow player even when young but time has caught up.
Wilson has to play up top. A 33 year low old crock but yhe only forward we have. Leeds are awful though but we made them look good at times. Kilman and Scarles at fault for the goals but Soucek / Irvine I still cannot believe he started with them again? It looked like he deliberately wanted to make us as weak as possible im centre midfield?
Other observations, Diouf aint a good one on one defender, our CBs are weak, Summerville should only be an impact sub not a starter. He did nothing much of note imo
The summary though is that the manager lost us that game and we are still destined to be relegated.
See you at the bunting parade over the weekend, for the goal we scored.
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 22:20
by Iron Duke
Paqueta has never been that good for us. Apart from the Euro final and the assist. The rest of the time he msinly loses the ball and falls to the ground. The worst thing that happened was being charged at a time when we could have cashed in. Typical West Ham luck.
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 22:19
by Massive Attack
Bar Bowen working his bollocks off all game and the Subs, I thought everyone else was fucking shocking. All of them.
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 22:19
by Pedro.
Nuno seems to think we are in pre season.
random selections and giving players a start as if it’s a charity game.
needs to start earning his money.
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
I didn't want him starting either, I wanted Potts and Fernandes! But don't let that get in the way of your incessant hatred for Tomas Scapegoat you wanker.
fuck off i’ve been saying he is shit all week and you’ve been telling me the opposite. Then have the cheek to moan about the starting 11 when your starboy
is picked
You’ve been championing him last few days, fucking own it
No you fuck off you braindead div. I've defended Soucek because apparently we "only play with 10 men" whenever he plays and yet he has made a shitload of goals for us and helped us to stay in the Prem, go on 3 deep European Cup runs that actually led to silverware.
You can try as hard as you like to boil it down to the start of this seasons form which I haven't defended, just the bits where he hasn't "done fuck all" with clear examples of when he does. But you only want to hound a player out who has given everything to West Hams cause which I am very grateful for, even if you aint.
yeah it is playing with 10 men, you not watch the game tonight? Fuck what he did 2 years ago, i care about now and he is a fucking passenger as i have said all week
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 22:18
by Texas Iron
blame Nuno…
Reverse Full Backs…Stupidity…
Cannot de fend A Corner…an obvious weakness he has not addressed…
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Posted: 24 Oct 2025, 22:18
by Metroplex
Make no mistake, that was a woeful Leeds team. A team that, as awful as we've been for the past few seasons, we'd usually defeat. We're going backwards under this cսnt. And I didn't even think that was possible.
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
twoleftfeet wrote: ↑24 Oct 2025, 22:07
Paqueta is wank, he shouldn’t be in the starting XI
been banging this drum all season too, again this week had a load of stick for it
fucking see it now do we all?
I think you’ll find I’ve been digging him out for months, I didn’t include him in my favoured starting line up. He offers nothing, I’d rather see Fernandes in the Paqueta role.
wasnt a response to you, was agreeing with you and a response to the forum
Re: Leeds vs West Ham | PL | 24.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Yeah glad Soucek started he was fucking unreal yet again tonight you absolute tool
I didn't want him starting either, I wanted Potts and Fernandes! But don't let that get in the way of your incessant hatred for Tomas Scapegoat you wanker.
fuck off i’ve been saying he is shit all week and you’ve been telling me the opposite. Then have the cheek to moan about the starting 11 when your starboy
is picked
You’ve been championing him last few days, fucking own it
No you fuck off you braindead div. I've defended Soucek because apparently we "only play with 10 men" whenever he plays and yet he has made a shitload of goals for us and helped us to stay in the Prem, go on 3 deep European Cup runs that actually led to silverware.
You can try as hard as you like to boil it down to the start of this seasons form which I haven't defended, just the bits where he hasn't "done fuck all" with clear examples of when he does. But you only want to hound a player out who has given everything to West Hams cause which I am very grateful for, even if you aint.
