West Ham United beat Manchester United 2-1 on Sunday, but Julen Lopetegui got away with a truly abysmal decision.
Julen Lopetegui was a man under real pressure before the Premier League clash with Manchester United at the London Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
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West Ham were fully deserving of the win in the end, after a spectacular second-half performance.
However, the first-half display was a really worrying one, and Lopetegui has to figure out a way of getting the best out of his players from the first whistle.
He made some hugely questionable calls with his starting XI once again for the Man United clash.
And one really did take the biscuit.
Julen Lopetegui fed West Ham player to the Wolves vs Manchester United
The Spaniard is continually getting his team selections wrong, and it’s costing us dearly.
Sure, he made the correct substitutions at half-time, but why is he incapable of picking the correct team at the start?
Carlos Soler is someone who the Hammers fans have been crying out for to start recently.
However, the 27-year-old put in a truly shocking performance against Manchester United today.
That said, I do feel really sorry for him, and I blame Lopetegui for the PSG loanee’s struggles.
Soler actually hinted recently that Lopetegui doesn’t have a concrete vision, and that looked to be exactly the case during our clash with Man United on Sunday.
The Spaniard was thrown to the Wolves by Lopetegui this afternoon. The Hammers head coach decided to start him out on the left wing – an absolutely baffling decision from him.
The 27-year-old midfielder has no pace – an attribute that is needed in order to play out on the wing.
His creativity, flair and guile was rendered useless as he wasn’t able to involve himself in our build-up play.
If Julen Lopetegui persists in playing Carlos Soler out wide on the left, just like he did against Manchester United on Sunday, the Spaniard will have a short future with West Ham.
The midfielder is now very much behind the eight-ball. Hopefully Lopetegui realises that he made a huge mistake today with Soler.
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