No side in the top flight has collected fewer points at home
this season than West Brom have (jointly with Newcastle and Watford).
Key Stat: Norwich have won more times away from home in the Premier League
this season than West Brom have at The Hawthorns, scoring almost twice as many goals to boot (15 away compared with West Brom's 8 at home).
West Brom Fact: Only Blackpool (78) conceded more goals in the league last
season than West Brom (71), who also had the second poorest away defence to boot (41).
Not exact matches
In addition to that, however, Catholics in the
West today must understand that we are very likely heading into a
season of persecution ourselves, a
season of the cross less dire
than that lived by those Christians presently under direct mortal threat, but quite real nevertheless.
What possibly goes better with Florida Key
West Key Lime Juice
than jerk
seasoning?!
West Ham just didn't turn up, other
than it being last home game of
season for them, there really isn't any reason for them to do so.
Even then on the first day of the
season vs
west ham he was heavily criticised (i still remember all those Reece oxford memes) and at the end of the
season he wasnt as good either (still performing well, but not consistently at his peak) All I am saying is he has far more off days
than other WC players
That trip to the Hawthorns produced just a third defeat of the
season and the only one since the opening day loss to
West Ham that was down to the deficiencies of the Arsenal team rather
than the obvious failings of a certain Mr Mike Dean.
Berahino has started less
than half of
West Brom's Premier League games and scored only four goals, having managed an impressive 14 last
season to bring himself to the attention of Tottenham.
This means the
west London giants are more
than likely to miss out on Champions League football for a second time in three
seasons in what looks like becoming a spectacular collapse given the success of Conte last
season.
West Ham will get no more
than two or three
seasons out of the 33 - year - old, however defence is an area where experience is hugely beneficial.
Or, now Arsenal are visibly slipping under Wenger, can he afford to have
West Ham and Spuds better
than Arsenal by the end of next
season (In a nutshell he's running scared of everyone else)
This week it could be that
West Ham's
season really could not have been written any more ironically, that Sammy Lee earned himself at least a year at Bolton, that for once Tottenham didn't bottle it, or that the relegation finale once again proved more dramatic
than the Champions League ever will be.
LSU won the SEC just twice under Miles, matching Saban's two conference titles — in six fewer
seasons than Miles spent on the bayou — but it also played for the SEC title just three times, often sitting a step or two behind Saban's Tide in the SEC
West.
Only four clubs (Stoke, Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal) have conceded fewer goals
than West Ham (22) in this
season's Premier League.
I know I am jumping the gun a bit here by assuming that Arsenal will continue to be more like the side we saw win away to Crystal Palace last week, rather
than the one that slumped to a dismal defeat at home to
West Ham, but the end of last
season and the way we were playing in pre-
season has given us good reason to think that will be the case.
I've never been a Carl Jenkinson fan but his form @
West Ham this
season has been impressive and more
than equitable to MD when healthy.
Gibbs should be sold if
West Brom come in with 10 million and if we somehow get rid of Debuchy and sell Chambers and Lucas too plus the money for Szczesny we'll bag enough cash to buy a player or two who will improve the squad without doing major damage, because we had players with the numbers 1,2,3 and 10 either out of the club or playing less
than 10 games last
season.
After an impressive
season at
West Ham United, Aaron Cresswell is being linked with a move to City as an improvement at left - back, though is he really better
than Gael Clichy or Aleksandar Kolarov?
When he scored against
West Ham at the start of Decemeber it ook his goal tally to eight and that matched his best ever for Arsenal with more
than half of the
season to go.
You forget that Lukaku and Benteke have achieved admirable feats playing in clubs like Aston Villa,
West Brom, Everton who I find it very hard to remember names of players in their midfield rather
than Barkley, Barry and Fabian Delph while Giroud has had the luxury of players such as Cazorla, Ozil, Sanchez, Walcott, Ramsey for 3
seasons now who are an indisputable stronger creative force compared to those other teams mentioned.
Musonda looks another player with great potential who could have something to offer the
west Londoners this
season as they'll need to rotate more often
than last year when they were out of European football.
Chuba can be a strike partner with Oliver, then bring in Mehrez or Draxler, and we can also bid for Barca's Munir then we can have a great
season, our pre-
season last year was better
than this, only to got beaten by
west harm, so don't raise your hope high gunners, just be patient and pray for wenger to have a change of heart.
But the lesson here is AFC need to buy top quality tall and pacy centerback and tall powerful dm to defend set pieces against the likes of
west brom and sunderland next
season rather
than playing a striker who is clearly off form to compensate / cover such weakness.
The fact that Benteke and Lukaku have a better scoring record
than Giroud in the past 3
seasons while at clubs like Aston Villa,
West Brom and Everton with relatively lesser creative midfield and supply quality proves how good they are and will be at Arsenal.
Arsene Wenger has already let the Arsenal fans know that he is not making this quarter - final Carabao Cup clash against
West Ham any more of a priority
than he normally does, and is planning to play a mixture of youth and fringe players even though this competition is probably our best chance of a trophy this
season.
This was about more
than just
West Virginia missing a chance at a big trophy because its rival ruined its
season.
Although the Reds did play only three fewer long balls
than West Brom last weekend, the Baggies average 72 per game in the Premier League this
season compared to Liverpool's 58.
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Disciplined in his role, he is very rarely caught out of position, he is strong in a tackle and seems to relish a physical battle His technical ability also developed over the course of the first few months of this
season, and his passing improved along with his ability to twist and turn out of trouble, but of course what we had all been dreading came to pass..., Coquelin was injured vs
West Brom, and has missed the last month, and is going to miss at least two more, I am of the opinion that we would be in a much better position
than we are now if Coquelin had stayed fit.
And Utah will need more
than scoring from M & M to win the
West — the team will need an improved
season from center Mark Eaton, too.
Even last
season, when the Portland Trail Blazers broke through to make the Finals — where they promptly lost 4 - 1 to the Detroit Pistons — the best regular -
season team in the
West (and the entire league, for that matter) was none other
than the 63 - win Lakers.
This weekend, it could be that beating Chelsea last week doesn't mean a whole lot if you get crushed by Reading the next, that Liverpool better be lining up another Champions League win, that «Didier Drogba — Premiership's Best Striker» is becoming a disturbing reality, that
West Ham still have a fair bit to be worried about this
season, that Martin O'Neill really is the Greatest Living Manager or that Glenn Roeder is probably a little more optimistic
than he should be.
So even though the Arsenal fans would rather not have seen our team surprisingly lose games like the first one of the
season against
West Ham and the home game recently against a depleted Swansea City, it has made for a more interesting
season than usual.
So it looks like Jack will be still be an Arsenal player next
season, and I would expect him to stay with us for the duration rather
than go back out on loan, despite interest from Crystal Palace,
West Ham, Swansea and Newcastle all reportedly keen on temporary deals.
West Brom, who have been awful, and are rock bottom with only 4 wins all
season, have only conceded 7 more
than us!
West Brom are quietly having an excellent
season, while Boro have lost more
than half of their home games so far.
As for
West Ham, Wenger is impressed with Bilic signing the talented Frenchman Dimitri Payet, who at Marseille last
season created more chances
than any other midfielder in Europe.
For most of the games that Arsenal have played this
season, whether in the Premier League, domestic cups or Champions League competitions, we have had to cope with a bigger injury list
than our opponents, but that was not true of
West ham on Wednesday and even less so for our next EPL game away to Crystal Palace.
Teams like Leceister,
West Ham, Swansea have shown more team spirit
than us this
season.
West, who is such a perfectionist that he ran out of patience coaching the less -
than - perfect Lakers and gave up the job after three
seasons, thinks the game has changed so much that now it belongs as much to the outstanding ball handler as to the seven - footer.
The game against
West Brom is coming up at the weekend, and with Alexis Sanchez certain to be lining up for Chile against Uruguay very late tomorrow night I am pretty sure he will be too exhausted to face
West Brom, and truthfully he needs a longer rest
than that if we want him to recharge his batteries for the second half of or
season.
The Panthers know how to ruin a dream
season better
than anyone, as 2007
West Virginia and 2016 Clemson can attest.
It's called form... Theo doesn't score a hat - trick every game, and the
West Ham side we faced were a hell of a lot more determined
than West Brom at the end of
season playing for nothing.
The 23 year old Brazilian was a regular in Jose Mourinho's starting eleven this
season but arguably made less of an impact at the
West London side
than in previous campaigns.
It's nice to be young and full of confidence this early in the
season, but Arsenal know more
than anyone that it does not pay to be overconfident before a game (
West Ham anyone) so you can't knock him for that I suppose.
so is stoke cities, so is
west ham, but the new reality of a more competitive league is top 4, especially more
than half way thru the
season and in 6th place, top 4 effects everything from recruiting to maintaining players
8 —
West Brom have take just eight points in 14 Premier League matches under Alan Pardew (W1, D5, L8)-- four fewer
than their first 14 games of the 2017 - 18
season before his arrival (W2, D6, L6).
Given Joe Hart's less
than adequate
season with
West Ham and the occasional mishaps that have plagued Stoke City's Jack Butland this
season, Pickford appears to be the frontrunner, and Rooney agrees that the former Sunderland man is clearly the best option.
Today at 11:30 am -
West Ham fans here in the Tavern will be happy once the
season is over and they have guaranteed their Premier League status for another year following a disappointing campaign which saw them flirting with relegation rather
than challenging for European football, as was expected at the London Stadium.