We can’t concede that kind of goal then, especially after the second one, it didn’t decide the game but it changed a lot.
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Watford continued to build momentum after the restart and went ahead after 53 minutes, Capoue thumping a powerful half-volley that Adrian could only turn onto the underside of the crossbar.
It is hard to know what to expect from West Ham – or to a certain extent what their own expectations are – as owners David Gold and Sullivan have made apparent from their transfer bidding that they want the club to push on to the next level.
The likes of Roberto Pereyra, Isaac Success and Darryl Janmaat have seemed, on paper at least, largely positive additions, and the new players starting to bed in to the club, the head coach is confident in the squad he has available to him.
“Of course we’ve been missing him, like any club is missing their key players”, Bilic said. “This is a concept that I have always done and taught the players I have coached and I’m doing it now”. With a section of the fans causing altercations in the stand, the West Ham defence very much fell apart just before half time, with miss-communication between Gomes and Collins the main cause of the opener. After that, we had a couple of opportunities where we could have scored, but we didn’t.
The second half should be a thriller.
Slaven Bilic refused to excuse the defensive implosion that saw West Ham’s two-goal lead crumble to a 4-2 defeat.
Hammers boss Bilic said on the trouble: “They told me about it”. “It was way too easy for the first one and second one”. But if we defend like this we are not going to win many games. “I like to work with a group that I chose myself, and I’m very happy with this one”, Mazzarri said at a press conference. I am, I am.
Deeney added: “We all dug in and started to lay a bit of a hand on them and before you know it we were getting more chances and we got two goals before half-time”.
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“He hasn’t play for us since the first game of the season when he came on against Chelsea but then he played 45 minutes of a friendly for France against Italy and he came on for 35 minutes-or-so against Belarus”.
