Emma Hayes
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Podcast Appearances
It's really difficult for West Ham to recover.
Or do you just think it was the timing of the equaliser?
Because you couldn't have seen that coming.
It's one of those goals you normally see in analysis with little triangles drawn all over it.
Definitely.
It was a 4v4 rondo down inside the touchline.
I think the ability to pull Crystal Palace apart is something they didn't do enough of.
Especially second half.
Anderson in particular, I thought...
He took up wider positions, but they were far too narrow in the first half.
And you felt after the goal, West Ham are going to go and win the game comfortably, but they just didn't capitalise.
Yeah, I think so.
You consider he scored 20 goals last year in the same club that Jovic, who's gone to Real Madrid, scored 25.
He's got the pedigree, he's got the goal-scoring ability, but what he brings to West Ham, I think you felt it in the second half of 15 minutes,
It's not just his link-up play.
It's that ability inside the six-yard box that if a ball's cut across the right area, it didn't happen enough today that you feel he will take his chances when they come their way.
And he's proving that.
He's scoring goals.
But even so, I think Crystal Palace limited them today.
And I think...