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We didn’t deserve anything, we deserved defeat. They were better than us. We put some pressure on at the end and had a couple of chances, but we missed, and they were dangerous on the counter-attack. They deserved it.
The players did not do enough. We weren’t closing them down, they had space to win the ball and to play combinations and we were too far away. So did our players do enough? I’m sure individually they gave everything they could, but it was not good enough, and we are in a really bad spell. We don’t have confidence. It’s a chain reaction, we have become stiff and not close enough to the other players.
It’s hard to change. The team is down. We have good weeks of training but when the game comes we are not good enough. It is not happening at the moment, and it is not one game, it is since the Bournemouth game. It is four Premier League matches in a row.
It’s not a magic wand thing, we have to work hard. We are not the first team to have a bad spell in the Premier League, and now all that you can do is to stick together. We have tried to go back to the basics in training. But we are not happy with how we played in the final third, we are down to the basics but it’s not happening at the moment.
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Puel’s methods are starting to take hold Southampton have been outstanding in their managerial appointments in recent years but a slow start under Frenchman Puel led to a few question marks. But they dominated for large periods here, with some polished passing football, for a second win in as many Sundays – and kept a fourth straight clean sheet in all competitions.
Zaza needs to cut out the cheating West Ham’s on-loan Juventus striker may find Premier League referees are hotter than those in Serie A at clamping down on diving. His horrible piece of play-acting, when he fell over Oriol Romeu, was rightly rewarded with a booking by referee Jon Moss.
Charlie Austin had West Ham fans longing for their former Upton Park fortress once more as the Southampton striker scored one and laid on another to keep Slaven Bilic’s men in the Premier League relegation zone. Here are five things we learned from the clash at the London Stadium.
It’s over, mercifully for West Ham, and it’s only 3-0. A real hammer blow at the London Stadium and Slaven Bilic has an inquest on his hands. Adrian’s string of wonder saves are the sole positive that the home side can take from today. Southampton players head to their travelling supporters to applaud them. West Ham’s fans are heading straight for the exit.
Full-time at the London Stadium. It is another grim home fixture for West Ham as they go down 3-0 at home to Southampton, who controlled proceedings in the second period. The goalscorers on the day for the Saints were Charlie Austin, Dusan Tadic, and James Ward-Prowse, but they were given a massive helping hand by a truly hapless Hammers defence, which will leave Slaven Bilic worried for his job going forward. Thanks for joining us, see you next time!
Adrian has kept West Ham in this. Well, sort of. He’s kept them within two goals. The Irons shot-stopper has made a string of fine saves but he’s entitled to ask questions of his hapless defence. Southampton are searching for a third and you do wonder how many more of those saves Adrian has left in him. It’s been men against boys in this second-half.
This could have been a cricket score… Southampton are carving West Ham apart, here. The 2-0 scoreline is flattering for the hosts. Moans and groans oscillate around the London Stadium and it’s not hard to see why. Winston Reid tries his luck with a long-range effort but it’s well wide of the target. Irons boss Slaven Bilic hasn’t worn a tie today, perhaps just as well. He’ll be getting hot under the collar.
The referee plays a good advantage here as Van Dijk completely takes out Feghouli on the right wing just as Kouyate moves possession forward. As the attack comes to nothing for the Hammers, play is brought back and the Dutchman is issued with a booking, while West Ham get the free-kick in a useful position for Payet.
Dimitri Payet looks a shadow of the player he was last season. That free-kick in the cup against Accrington now seems more of a one-off than it does trade-mark. The Frenchman has been anonymous today, playing at an almost walking pace…out wide!
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A turgid first half at the London Stadium suddenly bursts into life as Dusan Tadic plays Ryan Bertrand in down the left flank, and Charlie Austin meets the former Chelsea defender’s low cross with a clinical finish. More misery for Slaven Bilic.
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West Ham endured a nightmare against Watford on their last outing at the London Stadium and they are faring little better here.
Charlie Austin provided the only moment of quality in an otherwise unremarkable opening 45 minutes with his fifth goal in four matches and, aside from Dimitri Payet’s dangerous set-piece deliveries, the home side are struggling to make an impact.
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Line-ups: Arbeloa makes first league start for West Ham as Austin leads Southampton line
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Alvaro Arbeloa gets his first Premier League start for the Hammers in place of Arthur Masuaku who is suffering with a knee injury.
Winston Reid returns to the starting line-up with James Collins out as Slaven Bilic makes two changes from the team that lost 4-2 to West Brom last weekend.
Southampton boss Claude Puel has handed Charlie Austin a start as Shane Long makes way.
Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg replaces Jordy Clasie with Puel also making two changes to his side following their 1-0 win over Swansea last Sunday.
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GOAL! West Ham 0-2 Southampton (Tadic)
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West Ham have a mountain to climb now. Great one-touch football from Nathan Redmond and Charlie Austin releases Dusan Tadic, and the Serb smartly lets the ball run across him to round Adrian before tapping into the empty net. Southampton are enjoying this.
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Shockingly, the likes of Arsenal ace Mesut Ozil, Leicester wing wizard Riyad Mahrez and West Ham’s Dimitri Payet don’t even make the top 10 of this list.
What’s more, the player at number one is somebody who only cost Crystal Palace £1.75m back in 2014.
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West Ham’s season has moved quickly from uncertainty through disappointment and now in to the dangerous realms of high farce. Manager Slaven Bilic must shiver when he wonders where his team is heading next.
Do not be fooled by what could generously be described as a late rally from West Ham at the London Stadium. Yes, they should have had a penalty and there were was a toe poke from centre forward – if we can call him that – Simone Zaza that was cleared from the line.
But West Ham’s late spell of forward movement appeared very much as an after-thought, the type of ‘everybody out of the trenches’ stuff teams resort to when all already seems lost.
What is more telling about this team and the way it has regressed in the unfamiliar and clearly uninspiring environs of its new stadium is what happened in the previous 70 minutes. That was where this game was not so much lost as surrendered.
That was the period that featured hapless defending, uncertain goalkeeping, hopeful tumbles in the penalty area and, in the first half, a cross from the dreadful Manuel Lanzini that would have landed in the nearby Westfield shopping arcade had it not been gobbled up by the cavernous stand on the far side here.
Lanzini was taken off by Bilic at half time, the only question being whether he had enough desire or gumption to find his own way to the shower without being led by the hand. He was not alone, either. This was an afternoon when West Ham’s players failed their manager from one to 11, or, in modern parlance, numbers 13 to 30.
Southampton were not much better for 40 minutes.
Indeed until they scored the first goal through the in-form Charlie Austin five minutes before half time, very little had happened at all in this game. But that goal was a lovely one and Southampton grew from there as West Ham continued to travel backwards.
There was a second goal just after the hour, this time from Dusan Tadic after a pass from Austin.
The Southampton striker was once described by West Ham co-owner David Sullivan as having no knee ligaments. His contribution on Sunday will have especially pleased him, therefore.
The bigger picture here, however, was one that told of one team moving forwards – this was Southampton’s fourth win on the bounce – and another going absolutely nowhere, a fact illustrated further when Southampton substitute James Ward-Prowse added a third goal in added time.
There were plenty of jeers from the home supporters at the end – from those who were still here anyway - while the boos that had accompanied West Ham from the field at half time were half-hearted and rather limp. That at least was something quite in keeping with the performance of the home team.
Having come in to this game with questions being asked of their recent performances, the least Bilic and the West Ham supporters would have wanted to see was a return to the energy and forward thrust that so characterised this team last season.
As it happened, West Ham seemed to drift in only one direction – the wrong one – during an opening half that only became interesting once Southampton scored five minutes before the break.
Sometimes, it is possible to watch football and wonder just how a game with so much potential for thrills and excitement can be so very, very bad. This is how it was for the opening 45 minutes on Sunday.
West Ham were awful. Static, ponderous and uncertain. Southampton, meanwhile, were not much better. Thankfully, we did get a goal – a goal out of nothing – and it was a very good one indeed.
Forty quite dreadful minutes had passed when Southampton began to build play down the left. There seemed little danger when Tadic received the ball just inside the West Ham half but his ball down the line to Ryan Bertrand found his team-mate in enough space to provide a low cross towards the penalty spot.
West Ham were well served in terms of numbers but Austin is a cute operator inside the penalty area and his deliberate hesitation gave him a crucial yard behind the two home central defenders and the left-foot finish was delivered first time and with enough accuracy to beat goalkeeper Adrian across his body.
At first sight, it seemed as though the West Ham 'keeper may have saved it but on second look it appeared Austin’s shot was placed just out of reach.
In terms of the game, the goal was what it needed. Something had to happen to bring it to life.
From West Ham, there was no immediate response. Indeed Southampton may have eased further ahead before half time when Nathan Redmond found space to bring a save at his near post from Adrian and then full back Cedric lashed a shot in to the side-netting from the same side when the intelligent option would have been to drive a shot across the goalkeeper and hope, at the very least, for a rebound.
Before all this, incident had been scarce. West Ham had created one chance as Michail Antonio failed to connect with a Dimitri Payet corner as it passed in front of him six yards out. Southampton, meanwhile, may have been ahead very early on had Redmond not taken too many touches when a low cross from Jose Fonte found him in space on the edge of the penalty area.
At half-time it was not surprising to see Bilic act. Only weak managers do nothing when the walls are threatening to come down. So Lanzini – who had been noticeable only because he had been so bad – was replaced by Sofiane Feghouli for the second period as the home team sought an urgent change of direction.
Not that one seemed imminent as Southampton took the game to Bilic’s awful team in the early stages of the half. In the 51st minute they should have been two up as weak West Ham defending allowed Cedric to pull the ball back for Tadic. The first-time shot may have been slightly better directed than it was but the save by Adrian – made to his left as his weight went the other way – was still a very good one indeed.
There is always a danger when a team is on top that they may live to regret chances not taken. Briefly here that seemed possible as West Ham spent some time deep in Southampton territory. During that period their striker Zaza was booked – either for diving or complaining – while Antonio headed wildly over after Southampton goalkeeper Fraser Forster misjudged a cross.
On the hour, though, West Ham’s hapless midfield gifted Southampton an opportunity that they took very skilfully indeed. Winston Reid almost lost the ball 40 yards from his own goal and then Cheikhou Kouyate did lose it.
Redmond realised immediately that West Ham were out of shape – in every sense – and when he shifted the ball to Austin his first time pass played Tadic clear. Adrian dashed from goal but sold himself too early and Tadic drifted inside him before rolling the ball into an empty goal.
In the stands, mutiny seemed imminent. Instead, the disaffected merely drifted for the exit – with half an hour still to play – while those who stayed merely hoped for a miraculous and sudden improvement from their team.
For 10 minutes or so there was some activity in and around the Southampton penalty area. When it came the home supporters responded. Payet had a shot blocked and the follow up from substitute Feghouli was handled by Bertrand. It should have been a penalty but referee Jon Moss was unsighted.
Driven on briefly by some hitherto well-disguised energy, West Ham came again and had Payet’s low shot found the corner with 15 minutes to go we could have had some kind of finish.
As it was, West Ham’s fire was doused quickly and Southampton regained control. Adrian produced two decent saves but could do nothing in injury time when Antonio allowed Redmond to drive past him down the left.
Redmond fed Steven Davis and when his cross landed at the feet of Ward-Prowse, the afternoon was complete.
At the end Bilic seemed to have something other than ‘well done’ to say to opposite No Claude Puel. Maybe he was promising to give Southampton a game next time.
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West Ham United suffered a fifth defeat of the season, losing 3-0 to a clinical Southampton side at the London Stadium.
Charlie Austin opened the scoring five minutes before half-time, with Dusan Tadic and James Ward-Prowse adding their names to the scoresheet after the break to confirm the victory.
Sitting 18th in the Premier League, with only three points on the board, the pressure is already on West Ham manager Slaven Bilic.
But there were few signs in the opening period that the club were about to turn a corner.
It took 40 minutes for the first goal of the game to arrive in east London, and as has been the norm for the Hammers this season, it was the visitors who took the lead.
Ryan Bertrand eased past Håvard Nordtveit with a perfectly-timed overlapping run on the left flank, before delivering a low cross into the box, meeting the feet of Austin.
The centre forward, returning to the starting line-up ahead of Shane Long, made no mistake in front of goal, calmly guiding his strike past Adrian and into the bottom corner, sending the Saints into the dressing room a goal up.
Slaven Bilic opted for a substitution at the break, bringing on Sofiane Feghouli for Manuel Lanzini, in the hope of sparking life into his struggling Hammers side.
The change in personnel had little impact on proceedings, however. The creative juices of either side weren’t flowing, but the Hammers were equally as weak at the back.
Given the poor run of results facing West Ham, strengthening in defence should have been a priority for the club. But, with 61 minutes on the clock, Tadic was gifted his first goal of the campaign.
Cheikhou Kouyaté was guilty of holding on to the ball too long in his own half, allowing the Saints to comfortably regain possession and punish the home side.
Goal scorer Austin turned provider, deftly slipping the ball between two defenders and into the path of Tadic. The playmaker, without touching the ball, rounded the Hammers goalkeeper to double Southampton’s lead.
The Hammers came close in the 77th minute, with centre back Virgil van Dijk forced into making a clearance off the line from half-time substitute Feghouli.
Southampton, though, were determined to take home the three points. Claude Puel brought on Ward-Prowse in place of Tadic to further frustrate a West Ham side beginning to lose their discipline in midfield.
The Hammers, after going a goal down, never looked as though they would stage a comeback in front of the exasperated home support.
And, to rub further salt into their wounds, the Saints grabbed a third, courtesy of Ward-Prowse, to complete the most comfortable of away victories.
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A new club crest and a new ground in the London Stadium - things just have not clicked for a new-look West Ham United this season.
After Slaven Bilic’s Hammers secured a seventh-placed finish last term, the new campaign is yet to get started after losing five of their opening six Premier League matches.
Claude Puel’s Southampton were the latest team to beat United in 2016/17, with goals from Charlie Austin, Dusan Tadic and James Ward-Prowse giving them a 3-0 win.
The east Londoners spent over £40m in the summer to strengthen their squad, while keeping star player Dimitri Payet. Fans are rightfully questioning what is going wrong.
Their misery is something other fans have been enjoying. On Sunday afternoon, as Ward-Prowse completed the rout with the final goal, opposition fans took to Twitter to poke fun at West Ham.
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