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da 888casino： Manuel Pellegrini’s West Ham United were shockingly bad as they missed a huge opportunity to go seventh in the Premier League at the weekend, losing 2-0 to Everton at London Stadium.
What went wrong?
The answer to the question of what went wrong for the Hammers on Saturday evening was team selection – driven by the continued naivety of Pellegrini.
His team were outclassed by Marco Silva’s men from the first minute in east London, falling behind to Kurt Zouma early on before Bernard doubled the visitors’ advantage just after the half-hour mark.
Although there would be no further goals the Irons never really looked like getting back into the game and ultimately succumbed to their first home loss this side of Christmas, dealing their Europa League dreams a massive blow.
The key selection errors
There can be little doubt that this match was lost for Pellegrini after he picked his team, with his three substitutions, two of which came at half-time, doing little to reverse the events of the opening 45 minutes.
In defence, the fit-again Fabian Balbuena was overlooked again despite the fact that, as a pair, Angelo Ogbonna and Issa Diop had conceded five goals in their last two matches, both to sides in the bottom three.
In midfield, captain Mark Noble was left on the substitutes’ bench due to a rumoured family bereavement, but if he wasn’t in the right frame of mind he probably shouldn’t have been in the matchday squad at all.
In his place, Pedro Obiang struggled and this had a knock-on effect for the man babysitting him in the middle, young Declan Rice. However, this wasn’t the end of the tactical blunders.
Going forward, in-form Michail Antonio and Javier Hernandez were also relegated to the bench with the ineffective Lucas Perez and Robert Snodgrass, who offered nothing, coming in.
What these terrible changes did was clear to see in a flat, tepid and lackadaisical performance of pure nothingness that was a huge spurned chance for West Ham.
However, it’s not the first time that Pellegrini has approached a match in a naive fashion, not thinking he needs to field his best players to win, and it has to stop if the East Londoners are going to achieve anything of note in 2018/2019.