relegation
Sunday, February 25, 2007
The difference in class. This could see who actually gets relegated from the English Premier League. Yesterday's match that saw Charlton host West Ham told us about both situation and desire to stay in the Premiership. Charlton thrashed West Ham 4-0. This really suggested that Charlton had much more desire to win than West Ham. They might not have the edge over the player-to-player quality difference, but they had a team that was ready to fight for everything. Charlton had the desire to go for every ball. West Ham have great individual talents in Carlos Tevez, Yossi Benayoun and Anton Ferdinand, but they did not have a good enough team, and good enough team play to grind out the result.
Sheffield United are another team down near the bottom. They battled hard for most of the season, unlucky not to move up the table. They won Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 a week or so back, after going a goal behind. They have battling players who would scrap everything. Even though they lost 4-0 to Liverpool yesterday night, they showed that they would compete even when they were losing.
West Ham, contrary, cannot buy a win at the moment. Losing 1-0 to Watford was not bad enough, losing 4-0 to Charlton was worse. A 4-0 lost to Arsenal for any of the bottom 5 teams would not be a bad result, but to Charlton? It's very bad and tells you how bad their position is.
West Ham have to buck up and play as a battling team, not a talented creative attacking force.
Bye~!
my thoughts at 11:56 am