The West Ham United fans will be scratching their heads today, after Julen Lopetegui came out with a truly mind-boggling statement about our defeat to Liverpool.
The 5-1 score-line may well have flattered Liverpool in the end, but don’t be fooled – West Ham just weren’t good enough as a whole in the Carabao Cup third round tie.
There were actually times in the game when we looked fairly decent, right up until Mo Salah scored Liverpool’s third goal and then Edson Alvarez’s sending off two minutes later.
The bottom line is that we folded like a cheap suit in the final 15 minutes of the game.
It was a pathetic capitulation from the players in the end, and many of them should be ashamed of themselves.
However, Lopetegui sees things very differently it seems.
Julen Lopetegui makes big statement after Liverpool defeat
The 5,812 travelling Hammers fans deserved so much more than what they were served up last night.
Sure, it wasn’t our best performance of the season, but the fact of the matter is that we lost the game 5-1.
Lopetegui dissected the defeat at the hands of the Reds at Anfield today, when speaking to WHUFC.com.
And the Spaniard came out with a truly baffling statement.
Lopetegui said, “It’s not easy to say after this kind of loss, but it’s true that we did very good things for 75 minutes at Liverpool on Wednesday night.“
“But after the red card and the third goal it was a very different end. In the rest of the match I think that we did good and positive things and we were, in my opinion, very close to winning the match.“
No matter how well he believes we played, there is no chance that we were ‘very close to winning the match’, as he bizarrely put it.
West Ham boss Lopetegui needs to get real
The Hammers fans desperately need to see some real progress from the team over the next couple of games.
And Lopetegui needs to be realistic about how poor his team have been so far this season.
If he can’t do that, then how will we ever make any progress?
West Ham have been miles off it so far this season, and Julen Lopetegui surely knows that.
I, like many other West Ham fans, want to see big improvements against Brentford this weekend and Ipswich seven days later.
Hopefully Lopetegui finds a system that works, and sticks to it.
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