Only at West Ham United. In a midfield crisis, with zero creativity and not one shot registered on target against Crystal Palace, whoever runs the club web site decides to showcase creative midfielder loanee Freddie Potts doing what he’s been doing all season. Great call, Hammers team, now can you copy Graham Potter in please?
If you haven’t seen it yet, take a moment and click on the link below and admire Potts’ gorgeous floated through ball that led to Pompey’s goal. If that had been played by Lucas Paquetá we’d all be drooling. As one Portsmouth fan posted yesterday ‘What a player West Ham have on their hands’.
And in the desperate straits Graham Potter finds himself, with creativity and attacking threat absolutely missing from his West Ham team, I still find it staggering nobody has looked at what Potts offers the stodgy sterile squad and recalls him immediately. Regular readers will be sick of me banging the drum for Potts recall but: Take a look at the video clip and tell me that Guido Rodriguez, Edson Alvarez or Tomas Soucek as they played against Crystal Palace offer more attacking threat.
Matt Ritchie raced onto an inch perfect through ball and finished off beautifully.
That move would have had the crowd out of their seats at London Stadium if it’d been Mohammed Kudus on the end of it. Just saying.
💙 Matt Ritchie’s first #Pompey goal at Fratton Park. pic.twitter.com/QTqv4glqjG
— Portsmouth FC (@Pompey) January 19, 2025
