West Ham United 25/26 relegation thread

[muskie]

Odds slashed from 5/1 to 7/2.

Watch this space.

I think we're fucked.

[El Scorchio]

Matata now wants out at Palace. The atmosphere must be rotten there right now. Squad dismantled, lame duck manager. I doubt we'd be able to make up 11 points on them from now until the end of the season but they could go into absolute freefall and only pick up a couple more points from here,

They do still have Burnley and Wolves to come at home though. Mind you neither of them could be gimmes.

[Mad Ferret]

What a fucking goal!

[Mad Ferret]

Could do with a Brighton goal here.

[Westham67]

Palace form 2 points in 6 games, they just lost their best player and still have European games to play

[nychammer]

AI is fucking mental these days.

Why not just ask AI to create alternative versions of MOTD highlights where we win every week and VAR inflicts harsh injustices on the opposition and we are a lauded and celebrated by the media. We could live in our own WHO  virtual premier league and be happy. 

[Massive Attack]

But he had a Striker on the bench he only used until the 91st minute of injury time to wind the clock down. Can't complain he doesn't have any options. 

[Rossal]

When you think about it, even when he had 2 new Strikers and 2 wide Forwards in Summerville and Bowen he still went defensive 2nd half.

It doesn't matter how many Strikers or attacking players he has available to him, he'll still feel the urge to mostly defend.

The reason why is teams put on fresh ideas up front and we can't do that. The only way for us to react is to defend deeper. Having fresh legs and fresh ideas in the last 30 mins of games is vital. Without adding some depth up top in the next week or so we are down simple as. 

[honky cat]

When you think about it, even when he had 2 new Strikers and 2 wide Forwards in Summerville and Bowen he still went defensive 2nd half.

It doesn't matter how many Strikers or attacking players he has available to him, he'll still feel the urge to mostly defend.
 

Thats ok. If he has these defensive urges he needs to go out and find a couple of big bastard defenders, dunk and dawson types.

[Massive Attack]

When you think about it, even when he had 2 new Strikers and 2 wide Forwards in Summerville and Bowen he still went defensive 2nd half.

It doesn't matter how many Strikers or attacking players he has available to him, he'll still feel the urge to mostly defend.

[Rossal]

Leeds next six matches could see them falter. We played much better yesterday as we have an outlet up front. I hope we keep Wilson 

 

We played better yesterday in the first half and we should have been more comfortable. Second half we were back to hanging on and defending deep. We got a bit lucky to be honest. We tired and the subs were late. Wilson's introduction wad timely and impactful but it should have been made 30 minutes earlier. 

We need to capitalize on those periods where we dominate. Hopefully Taty and Pablo will offer us more threat and an outlet up front. The signs are a least good in that respect. 

I sometimes think people don’t actually watch the games, when we were hanging on? Why did we get lucky? We should have been 3 up. 

But we wasnt and until the last 90 seconds of the 2nd half we didnt look like winning that game. 

Nuno seems to think from 60 mins onwards us camping in our own half will get us 3 points every week. 

We desperately need some attacking reinforcements as we arent going to get 90th min winners every week. 

As i said last week the fact we are now weaker in the attacking areas than the 1st Jan is farcical 

[Far Cough UKunt]

Jarrod as Steve (Mr Cool) McQueen? Oh come on.

Yes indeed, the AI crap on Youtube and Facecunt is absolute fucking shite.

[El Scorchio]

AI is fucking mental these days.

Frightening isn't it.  Can't be too long before we get a movie remake with an original cast that are all dead!  

At last, those new Dad's Army episodes!

[zico]

AI is fucking mental these days.

Frightening isn't it.  Can't be too long before we get a movie remake with an original cast that are all dead!  

[El Scorchio]

AI is fucking mental these days.

[zico]

[nychammer]

Leeds next six matches could see them falter. We played much better yesterday as we have an outlet up front. I hope we keep Wilson 

 

We played better yesterday in the first half and we should have been more comfortable. Second half we were back to hanging on and defending deep. We got a bit lucky to be honest. We tired and the subs were late. Wilson's introduction wad timely and impactful but it should have been made 30 minutes earlier. 

We need to capitalize on those periods where we dominate. Hopefully Taty and Pablo will offer us more threat and an outlet up front. The signs are a least good in that respect. 

I sometimes think people don’t actually watch the games, when we were hanging on? Why did we get lucky? We should have been 3 up. 

i watched it all and we simply were hanging on a bit in that second half after they equalized. We tired, they made subs and we responded late. 

[Sir Alf]

Our problem has been losing leads under Nuno. Our squad is non existent. We seem to compete in a lot of games for 60 mins but have no subs that wont weakrn us. Spurs, with 7 injuries and like just about every other team, can freshen things up with recent subs. Bissouma,  improved them for example 2nd half.  We bring on Guido or Soucek usually or Kilman but invariably get worse even though the players they replace are knackered

[twoleftfeet]

Leeds next six matches could see them falter. We played much better yesterday as we have an outlet up front. I hope we keep Wilson 

 

We played better yesterday in the first half and we should have been more comfortable. Second half we were back to hanging on and defending deep. We got a bit lucky to be honest. We tired and the subs were late. Wilson's introduction wad timely and impactful but it should have been made 30 minutes earlier. 

We need to capitalize on those periods where we dominate. Hopefully Taty and Pablo will offer us more threat and an outlet up front. The signs are a least good in that respect. 

I sometimes think people don’t actually watch the games, when we were hanging on? Why did we get lucky? We should have been 3 up. 

[nychammer]

Leeds next six matches could see them falter. We played much better yesterday as we have an outlet up front. I hope we keep Wilson 

 

 

We played better yesterday in the first half and we should have been more comfortable. Second half we were back to hanging on and defending deep. We got a bit lucky to be honest. We tired and the subs were late. Wilson's introduction wad timely and impactful but it should have been made 30 minutes earlier. 

We need to capitalize on those periods where we dominate. Hopefully Taty and Pablo will offer us more threat and an outlet up front. The signs are a least good in that respect. 

[Far Cough UKunt]

In my book we're going down but if by a miracle we stay up then that's a bonus.

[Manuel]

One of the biggest problems we have is not only do we have to win our winnable games, we are now going to need to pull off some more results like yesterday. I would fancy Forest to win or draw their winnable games.

[nychammer]

I think both us and Forest have at best another 20 points or there abouts and they have a 5 point start on us. . Hard to know how it'll pan out as we didn't expect to win yesterday, but there isnt a lot of wiggle room and we'll have to start pulling rabbits out of hats to have any hope.  Assuming its us or them and noother team collapses of course

My predictions

Hammers Fixtures - will have us on 37 total
24/01/2026 West Ham    Sunderland    3
31/01/2026 Chelsea    West Ham    0
07/02/2026 Burnley    West Ham    1
10/02/2026 West Ham    Man Utd        1
21/02/2026 West Ham    Bournemouth    3
28/02/2026 Liverpool    West Ham    0
04/03/2026 Fulham    West Ham    1
14/03/2026 West Ham    Man City    0
21/03/2026 Aston Villa    West Ham    0
11/04/2026 West Ham    Wolves        3
18/04/2026 C Palace     West Ham    1
25/04/2026 West Ham    Everton        3
02/05/2026 Brentford    West Ham    1
09/05/2026 West Ham    Arsenal        0
17/05/2026 Newcastle    West Ham    0
24/05/2026 West Ham    Leeds        3

Forest  - would have them on 42
25/1/2026 Brentford FC -   Forest     1
1/2/2026   Forest - Crystal Palace       3
6/2/2026  Leeds United -  Forest       0
11/2/2026  Forest - Wolves         3
21/2/2026  Forest - Liverpool           0
28/2/2026 Brighton -  Forest          0
4/3/2026  Manchester City -  Forest      0
14/3/2026  Forest - Fulham          3
21/3/2026 Tottenham Hotspur -  Forest    0
11/4/2026  Forest - Aston Villa       1
18/4/2026  Forest - Burnley FC         3
25/4/2026 Sunderland -  Forest          0
2/5/2026  Chelsea -  Forest           0
6/5/2026   Forest - Newcastle United      3
17/5/2026 Manchester United -  Forest      0
24/5/2026  Forest - AFC Bournemouth       3

[Westham67]

Leeds next six matches could see them falter. We played much better yesterday as we have an outlet up front. I hope we keep Wilson 

[Sir Alf]

With 7 points ar home and 10 away, i think we can conclude we need to fix our home form to gave any chance of keeping hope alive.  

Unfortunately we struggle with teams that sit deep and compact and who break quickly. The 2 new lads up top help simply due to their work ethic by pressing and challenging from the front throughout the time they are on the pitch.  But we still look far too slow and a tad too weak physically in challemges through the middle imho.  Been a long long time since West Ham controlled the midfield in a game for 45 mins let alone 90

[Tomshardware]

Our outside chance is some team collapsing
Bournemouth without Semenyo
Palace if Glasner leaves and they implode
Tottenham … IF THERE IS A GOD

Spurs have got Burnley away next, after that they have a run of tough games.   If Burnley beat them then it could get interesting.