They manage the defense with significant losses, but towards the attack, the traditional shooting bases of West Ham are troubled. In front of Wednesday’s English league football hit against Arsenal, fans are calling for the management to look for a replacement for the exhausted Mikhail Antonio. They seek salvation from Daniel Křetínský.
The fact that after the triumphal scalp of Chelsea West Ham fell with Dynamo Zagreb, again, not so many fans outraged the London team. The hammerheads already had the first place in the group of the European League for sure, and thus the advance to the spring phase. In addition, the line was full of undefeated substitutes.
It was worse on the weekend, when coach David Moyes’ team pounded Burnley’s defensive wall, but none of his players were able to score in 90 minutes, so he only scored a point in the table.
“We just didn’t have enough quality in the last third of the field. I think some players can play at a higher level, and I’ll tell them,” Moyes said after the match.
He didn’t name anyone, but it’s no secret that Michail Antonio, the team’s presumed chief sniper, has been worried for a long time. He last scored in the league on October 24, when he hit Tottenham with a single shot. But then he lost the recipe for goals.
“It’s not just a matter of throwing at him. Mikhail has scored a lot of goals at the beginning of the season. .
However, the fans are running out of patience and would like to see a new hungry gunner in the staff of the January transfer period. One of them, Damien Charles Lucas, even wrote a column about it on the Hammers News website entitled “Are you looking, Mr. Kretinsky? West Ham needs you and it’s time to act.”
In it, he encounters the crumbling defense of West Ham under the influence of Marodka and, above all, a barren attack. “When else should the time come to invest in the team than right now. I believe that Křetínský et al. Are watching this closely. They have been in football long enough to properly assess the situation,” he said.
The Czech co-owner and his colleagues David Sullivan and David Gold, who also own over twenty percent of the club, have time to think until January 2, when the transfer window opens.
Until then, they have to make do with what they have in the cabin, right on Wednesday, when they set out on the hot ground of Arsenal. It will be a direct battle for fourth place in the table.
“West Ham is currently one of the best teams in the league. They are so consistent, organized and straightforward. It will be a huge match, perhaps the spectators will help us,” wishes Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta.
But Moyes, who is also aware of the importance of the match, also has respect. “We are in a good position, we do not want to look at ourselves at all, we are only interested in whether we can catch the three teams in front of us,” says the Scottish coach.
It will also be an exceptional evening for him by experiencing the jubilee 600th match in the Premier League as a coach. The duel with Arsenal is on the program on Wednesday from 9 pm and the daily Aktuálně.cz will bring it to you in an online report.
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