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West Ham traveled to London to face West Ham United, who have been in good form since the start of the season, and played a 4231 with Aguerd, Zouma, Emerson, Coufal, Soucek, Alvarez, attacking midfielder Ward-Prowse, Bowen and Paqueta on the wings, Antonio
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Instead, they lined up in a special 4123 formation, which looked like 4231 from the starting charts, but changed immediately after the kickoff, with Akanji, RubenDias, Walker, Gvardiol at the back, Rodri, B. Silva at the back, Alvarez at attacking midfielder, Foden, Doku on the wings, and Haaland at striker.
Immediately after the start of the game B. Silva stepped forward to form a two attacking midfielders position with Alvarez, creating a 4123 forward pressure in the game.
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The beginning of the game was completely
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The world, after Foden's corner kick in the 6th minute, the
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At one point producing four consecutive attacks in front of goal, West Ham were on the goal line to keep out consecutive attacks, and in the first part of the game Walker almost became a winger pressing on, pushing Foden further forward in a formation that was quite attacking
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Foden looked strong and Haaland had a chance to score in the 14th minute, but he didn't capitalize on it. However, as the game progressed, it was clear that the formation was still unskilled, and Foden was clearly out of position, squeezing with Alvarez and even touching on a couple of occasions, and when Walker came up to push Foden forward, he didn't fully grasp the position under the opponents' dense defense. When Walker came up and pushed Foden forward, he hadn't quite mastered running in a crowded defense.
Doku stood out, he had a stronger game than before, maybe it's possible that he just got to the
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The opponents don't know how to defend him, but his personal characteristics are also very distinctive, he belongs to the type of foot very sticky ball, always can put the ball between the two feet travel, and when pushing forward always can stick to the ball, which makes the opponents are not very dare to break his foot, and he often has the upper half of the body of the violent swaying like a spring, so he can make a complete change of direction to snap the ball, West Ham players in the defense of his time. West Ham's defenders, rather than being difficult to defend, were confused as to when to break.
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After a siege, West Ham struck back with 35 minutes on the clock when Coufal raced down the right, approached the penalty area and curled in a cross which Ward-Prowse stepped straight back to score from seven yards.
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Because the man was too far up, he couldn't take care of Ward-Prowse's insertion when he was chasing back.
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Then the offense resumed, and Haaland again missed a Doku pass for a steal
But when the second half started.
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Alvarez handed the ball directly to Doku, who singled out Coufal and took the ball all the way into the penalty area. Coufal was still afraid to break him down, and Doku snapped the ball to the left and shot directly into the goal from 9 yards.
The change at the start of the second half was that Foden went down the right flank and Walker stopped going so far forward and supported Foden behind him. Foden seemed to be getting used to it and West Ham struggled to get into a good position and at around the 50th minute mark, Foden was in a good position.
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Launching back-to-back attacks, Alvarez had a free kick that hit the center post, and Haaland had an overhead shot off a hanging ball that was blocked
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The approach in this part of the game was still to allow Rodri to control the ball and press forward and then choose to distribute and pass it straight to West Ham, which was obviously more lethal to West Ham
Sim also had a good counterattack, with Antonio almost scoring a solo goal, and both teams actually produced very good chances on goal at this stage
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Replaced Foden with new signing Nunes in the 66th minute to intensify the passing up the center and continue to put pressure on the West Ham backs, a strategy that clearly worked later on as the West Ham backs were put under extreme pressure
