Nuno Espirito Santo and the “Breaking Information” banner (Photograph by Julian Finney/Getty Pictures)
West Ham United misplaced 2-0 to Chelsea within the Premier League, with supervisor Nuno Espirito Santo admitting his method had gone awry.
West Ham adopted a high-pressing model of soccer towards Chelsea and had a fairly good consequence up till the hour mark. Nonetheless, fatigue crept in within the second half and West Ham ultimately misplaced their spark.
The 4-4-2 system adopted by Espirito Santo requires excessive urgent from the 2 strikers, however West Ham merely lack the depth in that space of the pitch to vary issues up and keep the identical stage of stress for 90 minutes.
Nuno has now admitted that the system wants to vary and will probably be attention-grabbing to see if he can get the very best out of his workforce inside the assets at his disposal. In the event that they wished to make use of a high-pressing model, they need to have signed extra gamers.
Nuno stated (h/t Claret & Hugh): “Within the match we spent loads of power urgent excessive and taking part in very nicely offensively, however after about 55-60 minutes I felt that power disappear. We tried to rebalance the workforce with additional our bodies however it did not work. So the problem is to keep up the usual all through the match.”
It has been a disappointing season for West Ham, however they’re preventing to stay within the Premier League. It will likely be attention-grabbing to see if they will enhance their efficiency within the coming weeks and safe security within the prime flight.
There is no such thing as a doubt that they’ve gamers who can carry out significantly better than they’ve this season. Followers have to be hoping that they’ll present extra efficiency and bounce again strongly.
