Match Thread West Ham United v Everton - Match Report and MotM Poll

[brian labone]

A player like Branthwaite who looks like being the best English center back of the next 15 years needs to have a 100m+ valuation by the club. Our board need to stand firm, like Brighton do with their players.

We don't sell him, not even for 20m.

 

[Milkman]

Branthwaite MOTM, but Myko, DCL and Onana not far behind. All brilliant today.

 

[steven]

Thought Onana was a colossus in midfield. Stepped up massively today.

Branthwaite as well - what a find he’s been this season. So glad he has stepped up. Looks a future international.

All round top quality today. Looking very solid away from home.

 

[Encoder]

McNeil, Doucoure and Harrison were all about 3/10 today. So mad we won with them all playing 90 mins.

Their work rate and defensive application was very good though, so we won thanks to a bit of DCL magic essentially. The decision making still is a bit of a worry when attacking in general.

 

[Houghty19]

Yeah this win essentially cancels out Wolves or Fulham game. One more of these and we are back to even

I see where you're coming from but in those home games we did well enough and made enough chances to win them hands down whereas I thought we kept this lot at arm's length all game and hardly gave them a sniff and thoroughly deserved the points.

 

[deipnosophist]

Unbelievable result! I was expecting a negative GD (hopefully limited to -2) so to pull a +1 out of the hat is beyond my wildest dreams. I suggest Luton,Sheffield and Bournemouth fans won't like seeing our GD improving so much!!!

 

[banno]

Great goal by DCL and he worked hard and held the ball up well. On another day I would have given him MOTM but Branthwaite was just another level today.
What a player he is.

 

[summerisle]

I hope you're all gonna read the match report later

Will do now !

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

Decent performance and a well deserved win could have been more but once we got in front we closed it out well and I think West Ham ran out of gas after playing on Thursday night. A really nice goal which featured our best players today and the turn and finish from Calvert-Lewin was worthy of winning any match.

 

[Amokachi1995]

Good old school Everton Premier League win. That sodding Luton match!

 

[Mikey O]

Smashing result and we looked very solid at the back. Harrison and McNeil under par but still played their part in a good team performance; a little bit of magic from DCL made all teh difference.

And that ladies and gentlemen is our first team for the foreseeable future. A settled side will be good for everyone involved. It's up to Danjuma, Betto, Gana etc up their game in training in an effort to get involved.

Shame things will have to change for the midweek cup fixture.

 

[blueblood]

The contrast to the same fixture last season could not be more different. The end of Lampard and a completely lifeless performance. He gets some things wrong but Dyche deserves a lot of credit for how much more cohesive and organised we were today.

 

[blue in oxford]

good all round away performance today building confidence
now do Burnley wednesday

 

[ElGato]

Give MOM to Patterson, very disciplined defensive performance, played at his level today. Also decided I can't give it to Jarrad every week, but what another totemic performance from him. Dom, what a finish, if Haaland scores that the sky bots are flapping over it in the studio, all we get is a replay, "bad defending" and move on.

Only criticism is that it should have been two or three, but for some more wasteful play in the final third and the stubborn decision of Dyche not to make any subs, could see the team needed freshening up in the last twenty, bit baffled we didn't throw throw on some subs to get at them a bit more. Maybe we're planning on our B team getting us through Burnley on Wednesday so are happy to let a few of the forwards empty the tank, only time will tell if that's the shout and whether it's even a good one.

Tbf I fancied us today, onwards and upwards, mid table to top half finish has to be a realistic ambition now, our underlying metrics suggest that's where we're heading.


UTFT

 

[Lineker]

We don't sell him, not even for 20m.

I'd be asking for 80 or more