Friday night’s performance and result against the men of Barnsley was in my humble opinion the best of the season, the passing was crisp, the goals were well executed and in particular the efforts form Mark Noble and Nicky Maynard are surely contenders for goal of the season.
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The temptation for Sam will be to stick with the same line up for our crucial game against Birmingham…but can we at long last transmit our record-breaking away form to the hallowed
surface of the Boleyn?
The battering of Barnsley showed what West Ham are truly capable of, if the game was a boxing match the referee would’ve stopped the onslaught well before half-time.
We exuded pace, power and guile all coupled with a defensive solidity. At home all season though it’s been a different story: Jekyll and Hyde, chalk and cheese whatever you want to call it; we just haven’t looked anywhere near as sharp or dangerous on home soil.
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There are five games to go and 3 of them happen to be at home; if ever there was a time to at long last get to the root of our problems at home and see off Birmingham, Brighton Hove and Albion and Hull City it’s now.
I reckon 4 wins from our last 5 will be enough to usurp Reading, I just feel their run in which contains trips to St Mary’s and the Amex will see them drop points, but of course unless we can finally start winning at home (a sensation that we haven’t had the pleasure of since Feb 4th victory over Millwall) we’ll have to queue up to purchase our play-off lottery ticket.
I think the sweetest moment from Friday night’s glorious win at Oakwell had to be when the away support chanted ‘We’re West Ham United, we play on the floor’ just after Nicky Maynard’s finish which involved such a neat exchange of play that Pep Guardiola had he been amongst the crowd would’ve given a polite ripple of applause. When this little ditty was sung at Peterborough it was to mock and deride our perceived playing style under Big Sam, but the song was delightful flipped on its head and sung to boast the club’s long and proud history of playing football the right way.
After such a performance and result the temptation from Allardyce will be to keep the team the same for the must win game against Birmingham, a similar performance and the Brum will leave Upton Park empty handed and hopefully the home hoodoo will at last be lifted.
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