The difference in conditions between the two sides in this London derby was evident at the outset, with the
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It's basically the same thing that happened last week to
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of the full squad, but West Ham were missing two big players, Coufal and Bowen, and it was the absence of these two that prevented West Ham from even stalemating.
Last week's game vs.
Manchester United Football Club
hour
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In the end, despite the loss, the 3-2 score actually shows us that the current
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Offensively it's actually ok, the problem is their defense, which Conte has really been slowly addressing
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of many problems, although he still complains that the team didn't buy enough guys.
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The game continued to line up in 343 with Romero, Dier, BenDavies at the back, Reguilon, Doherty at the wing, Bantancur, Hojbjerg at midfield, Kulusevski, Sundowns, HarryKane up front, West Ham also in 343 with Zouma, Dawson, at the back, and Cresswell, wingbacks BenJohnson, Masuaku, midfielders Rice, Soucek, forward Lazini, Benrahma, Antonio.
The dynamics of the game were clear from the start, before the
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West Ham maintain his usual style of hard work, in fact, the team relies on a few tough guys in the operation, which includes the injured wingback Coufal and midfielder Bowen, coupled with the Czech back Soucek, it is the three pillars of iron will be in the midfield to wreak havoc, and then another pillar of iron in front of the field of Antonio, the substitutes for the strikers, there are also a Ukrainian Iron Man Yarmolenko, in which there is a back Rice has a very good midfield scheduling ability, after the defense grabbed the ball by him to distribute the ball, can be effective to let the front attackers run to a good position to pressure the opponent's defense.
But now minus Coufal & Bowen, and although West Ham's Benrahma has been in good form of late, Conte's side have probably seen through their weaknesses.
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Not trying to hold the ball properly on offense to begin with, they turned the ball over and surprisingly fought back as the home team.
West Ham didn't know how to attack, they were supposed to play midfield and pressurize the opponent and then use the sides to advance, but they were missing their key players.
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The defense was standing up again, so Musuaku and Ben Johnson on the side lines didn't know how to attack. Musuaku, who had often made brilliant plays before, was a simple rusher on the side lines, and he needed support from his teammates if he wanted to play a positional battle.
In this case, the side roads did not go, nor could the width of the front be drawn, together with the
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Bantancur and Hojbjerg at the back weren't bad either, West Ham were quickly dismantled up front, with Lazini and Benrahma struggling to get the ball, and striker Antonio barely touching the ball in the first half, and with no way to push up on either side of the pitch and his teammates having to pull back to get the ball, it led to Antonio being kept out of the game.
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The linebackers are taking turns to close in on him, and each of them jiri him a little bit, even if he's a slugger he can't take it if he keeps hitting like that.
West Ham did that at the start and had to put Rice & Soucek up next to help push forward but
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Just waiting for this, as soon as this powerful back pairing goes forward, West Ham's defense is exposed to the
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The fact that West Ham's backline is not a superb defense, the biggest pillars come from Rice and Soucek's protection and coordination of the defense.
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In this game versus the previous game against
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The biggest difference when it comes to Kulusevski, who was a big part of the matchup against
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He was very invisible and did not make any tackles, but this game was different, he showed very effective tackling and pressing, and countered very quickly, which completely destroyed the West Ham defense, and even allowed Harry Kane to simply withdraw to the middle of the ball.
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Immediately there was high pressure on West Ham's waist with these three sharpshooters on a line at the same time.
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This simply pulls the strikers out to distribute the ball, with the aim of allowing the two wingbacks to kill it in from the wings, as West Ham now seem to have two wingbacks who clearly can't defend.
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To purposely open up the width of the formation, this game was effectively a contest of whether the two wingbacks could force the opposing defense to open up, and West Ham were done for, as the duo of Reguilon and Doherty were as active as no one was defending in this game.
As soon as West Ham's backs left the defense, along with the
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Distributing the ball in numbers and passing quickly enough in this front area immediately forced out Zouma's weakness, he was slow to turn and couldn't keep running back and forth at high speeds and still keep from making mistakes, and he didn't seem to be in great shape for this game either, so he ended up getting pummeled the entire game and became the biggest weakness.
It's just over eight minutes into the game.
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Let HarryKane forcibly raid the right side of the hard pass, Sun rushed to the right side of the penalty area line want to force a shot at the front point, back to chase Zouma is difficult to judge Sun is going to go to the front point of the near post or the back point of the far post, the result of the Sun change of direction to rush out of the moment he was shunted away, and finally in the last when Sun shot at the goal he was barely inverted but touched the goal ball into the refractory breakthrough goal.
It's been that way for the rest of the game.
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Already saw the weak point is Zouma, and then keep playing him, 24 minutes again HarryKane in the center line with the ball, West Ham's back again has left the defensive position, HarryKane does not even bring a long pass to the left, Son after catching up on the left side of the penalty area again formed a one-to-one with Zouma, he made a stop and then sprint out of the action to shake off Zouma, and then 10 yards to the left side of the goal position. He made a stop and then sprinted out to shake off Zouma and scored with a 10-yard shot from the left side of the field.
