West Ham United lost 5-2 to Crystal Palace yesterday afternoon, as David Moyes cut a forlorn figure on the touchline.
David Moyes took his West Ham team to Selhurst Park to take on Crystal Palace yesterday for what was a must win game.
However, we all know that that didn’t happen. It was a shambolic performance from Moyes and every single player who wore the shirt yesterday.
The decision he made to snub Lewis Orford and bring on Kalvin Phillips instead for the final 15 minutes took the biscuit though.
The Hammers boss has been bemoaning player fatigue over the past couple of months, whilst insisting that he prefers smaller squads.
I’m not sure that even he knows what he’s saying anymore. That said, I feel like he knows that his West Ham tenure is coming to an end – he admitted that it will be no problem if he’s moved on at the end of the season.
Moyes’s decision making and squad management has been painfully inept since the turn of the year. He has flogged the same 13 or 14 players to death, whilst ostracising those on the fringe of the first-team.
Players like Danny Ings, Maxwel Cornet and Divin Mubama just haven’t been given a proper chance to show what they’re really capable of.
And that has meant that whenever they have been brought into the side on the very rare occasion, they’ve all looked painfully off the pace and out of form.
I feel like Moyes is a manager from a bygone era. There is no place for him in the modern-day game any more, and we are falling behind as a club with every month that passes.
Something he did yesterday proved to me that he’s actually not even interested about building for the future in East London…
Unforgivable David Moyes decision during Crystal Palace mauling
With the score-line standing at 5-1 with 15 minutes still to play, Moyes pathetically chose to bring the shambolic Phillips onto the field in place of Edson Alvarez.
Meanwhile, talented young starlet Orford was left on the bench.
What more can Moyes or the club learn about Phillips? He is disinterested in us and has no passion for the football club or commitment to the badge.
The 28-year-old has already had a set-to with the Hammers fans, and he won’t be signed permanently in the summer.
So why on earth was he brought on? Moyes misses tricks time and time agin doesn’t he. After a 5-2 battering, he might have had a slight bit of support had he brought some youngsters into the fray for the final 10 or 15 minutes.
Orford would have been the perfect replacement for Alvarez in the 75th minute at Selhurst Park.
The 18-year-old has really stood out for the under-21s this season, with five goals and five assists in 26 games from central midfield to his name (Transfermarkt).
It would have given everyone a real lift to see the hungry young Orford come on for the Hammers.
Instead though, the Hammers boss chose to wheel out the awful Kalvin Phillips for 15 minutes. He really doesn’t help himself at times does he.
David Moyes’ West Ham tenure is almost certainly over now after the Crystal Palace defeat. And whenever he does leave, there will most probably be a big cheer from the talented young players we have at the club.
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