Dokaka
AM's resident Hammer
Fair enough, what aspects were poor and what was decent? Watching the highlights it looked like a defensive collapse by West Ham more than anything. He seemed to have good long passing accuracy yesterday looking at the stats, I wonder what @Dokaka take is
He was fine, no where near the problem and our best player again, as always. As you said, it was a defensive collapse and the players look completely done with Moyes. Soucek keeps starting over Downes even though the entire fanbase is screaming for him to get benched, the dude is genuinely the worst on the ball midfielder in PL history.
Honestly I'm just kind of done posting in this thread, I've stated my opinion on Rice's pros and cons loads of times but I just cannot be arsed with the Talksport level agenda merchants spouting complete nonsense over and over again in here. I really cba putting in the effort when it's just being met with Trump level nuance and idiocy.
I've watched a bit of Declan Rice, but I watched two 90min games back to back, and the bold simply isn't true.
2 things I noticed is that Rice makes threatening forward passes, but even more than that, he sees those passes and wants to make more of them and his teammates are never in the right place to receive them.
The amount of times, particularly against Southampton, he'd turn and beat the press, receive the ball and beat a man, or dispossess the opposition, and have the ball at his feet pointing to where someone should be, or have his arms open wide exasperated because there was nobody to pass to, was startling.
For West Ham he has to do something that Partey rarely has to do for us, and actually something you see Ødegaard do more - he's constantly telling people where to be.
Rice is always pointing, with and without the ball, and telling people where they should be. He's not one of those "pass to me pass to me" guys, he'll point at the LB and tell him to pass it to the LW, or move out of the way, take a man with him and point to the next pass.
His teammates just never do it.
I actually found it annoying because at first I thought he was just complaining, until I realised that he's not complaining, his teammates just aren't at his level.
@Dokaka - am I on the right track or completely wrong? You're a West Ham fan so you'll know if I've noticed something or if I'm completely off base
Nah, you're spot on. He's surrounded by utter ****e but apparently that's not relevant for a supporting midfielder.