LOST YOUR MARBLES?
West Ham 1 Crystal Palace 1
Probably not the team you want to play when you’ve just got back from a major journey across Europe and are wondering where the next PL goal is coming from.
Hammers’ current form, at least in term of results, seems to suggest that this fixture should not pose too many problems even though they’ve only beaten Palace once at London Stadium.
West Ham fans occupy two parallel worlds, the second one a land where even winning is not a place which they wish to occupy. To play well and lose, or to play scrappily and grab three points in the final five minutes? It seems neither of these is an El Dorado for fans of this club.
This afternoon West Ham will have one of those games when they score inside the first fifteen minutes, their opening goal finished off first time by Mohammed Kudus following a low ball across the area weighted perfectly by Vladimir Coufal. The replay reveals the kind of deflection which explains Sam Johnstone’s lost contact lenses routine.
1 Alphonse Areola, 5 Vladimir Coufal, 33 Emerson, 15 Konstantinos Macropanus, 19 Edson Álvarez, 27 Nayef Aguerd, 7 James Ward-Prowse, 11 Lucas Paquetá, 14 Mohammed Kudus, 20 Jarrod Bowen, 28 Tomas Souček (captain)
Substitutes: 8 Pablo Fornals
Goalscorer: Mohammed Kudus
