West Ham: Areola, Todibo, Kilman, Cresswell, Alvarez, Wan-Bissaka, Soucek, Ward Prowse, Scarles, Bowen (C), Kudus Subs: Fabianski, Irving, Guilherme, Emerson, Mavropanos, Soler, Rodriguez, Ferguson, Ings
Arsenal: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori, Partey, Rice, Odegaard, Nwaneri, Trossard, Merino
To all West Ham fans, it was recently announced that Hammers fans could be expecting a 2-5% increase in season ticket prices for next season.
We are the 17th richest club in the WORLD, and we are the 7th richest in the Premier League, according to the Deloitte 2025 report.
It is completely and utterly sickening that all West Ham sites and fans must be writing articles, making social media posts and signing petitions for West Ham to not increase the prices.
It’s another overwhelming feeling of the ‘Lame, Pain and Blame game’ amongst the West Ham fanbase this chilly evening.
A dreadful start, yet again, saw us concede within the first 5 minutes, a calamity goal which was thought to have not crossed the line at first, but goal-line technology said otherwise.
A goal that came from us having the corner, in which Emerson took, Brentford won the ball, boot it up the pitch, we’ve got no left-back, Mavropanos and Areola circus and BOOM! 1-0 down.
West Ham: Areola, Wan-Bissaka, Mavropanos, Kilman, Emerson, Soucek, Alvarez, Bowen (C), Kudus, Soler, Paqueta Subs: Fabianski, Cresswell, Ward-Prowse, Guilherme, Rodriguez, Todibo, Ferguson, Irving, Scarles
Brentford: Flekken, Ajer, Collins, Van Den Berg, Lewis-Potter, Norgaard, Janelt, Damsgaard, Schade, Wissa, Mbuemo
West Ham will be looking to get back to winning ways when they entertain Brentford at the London Stadium on Saturday afternoon.Graham Potter’s arrival as manager is yet to inspire a turnaround in West Ham’s fortunes. The Hammers head into the weekend action having won just one of their last seven games in all competitions and they’ve taken just four points from their last six league games. A 2-0 home defeat to Crystal Palace was followed by a solid 1-1 draw away to Aston Villa at the end of January.
Back in the 2023 season, Tim Steidten had started to take the reins in full force and ultimately decided that the next step for the club was to have a ‘feeder team’.
It was initially intended to be a deal that would result in the clubs having mutual benefits with each other, with an initial cash boost for the Austrian side, SK Austria Klagenfurt, and the intention that West Ham would send youth talents there to gain experience.
The cash boost for the Austrian side would total £1,470,000, which was provided to them through the player sale of Andy Irving to us.
For the first time under Potter’s reign, West Ham received a week off from football after being knocked out of the FA Cup.
The breaks allowed our players to rest and recover while also letting us have a well-deserved break from all the abysmal decisions being made.
Despite it being a week off, I doubt it’s a quiet one.
Potter has been taking an interest in the under-18s after attending our victory against Manchester United on penalties to reach the FA Cup youth semi-final, a remarkable achievement and yet again emphasising how good our academy truly is.
It would be the first time in years that West Ham fans have felt so positive about a manager’s arrival, and all fans can see the vision Graham Potter is trying to get at and provide to the players as well as fans.
I’d predict that when the hiring opportunity for Potter came along, it was probably something along the lines of “You’ll have minimal money because Looney Lop spent it all in the summer, and your only goal this season is to keep us up… fancy joining?”. Remarkably, he said yes.
It was a Monday night ruined by the officials; it appears to be a running theme under Potter.
1 bad loss, 1 win, 1 draw and 2 games that the officials have done us over, first the ridiculous corner at Villa Park, which sparked the momentum for them to go on and win the game, followed by the ludicrousy at the Bridge with the foul on Jarrod Bowen not being taken into account for the first goal, along with the offside decision for the first which supposedly didn't take a touch of Marc Guiu, therefore allowing Cucurella's pass into the box to stand which resulted in there first.
Chelsea: Jorgensen, James, Tosin, Colwill, Cucurella, Caicedo, Fernandez, Madueke, Palmer, Sancho, Jackson Subs: Sanchez, Chalobah, Acheampong, Gusto, Dewsbury-Hall, George, Neto, Nkunku, Guiu.
West Ham: Areola, Wan-Bissaka, Kilman, Emerson, Coufal, Cresswell, Soler, Soucek, Irving, Bowen (C), Kudus Subs: Fabianski, Foderingham, Mavropanos, Guilherme, Ings, Rodriguez, Casey, Scarles, Orford