David Moyes deserves everything bad coming his way if he starts West Ham duo with 86 combined international caps against Wolves.
The Hammers have been in atrocious form over the past 6-9 months really, but things have got a lot worse this season.
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West Ham are currently sitting inside the bottom three in the Premier League table, having won just one game from our opening seven outings so far this season.
The 59-year-old Hammers manager is clearly feeling the heat, and nothing less than a win against Wolves will do this evening.
In order to get the three points, Moyes needs to make sweeping changes to both his lineup and tactics.
And there are two players in particular who shouldn’t be anywhere near the Scot’s starting XI against Wolves…
David Moyes deserves everything coming if he starts West Ham duo vs Wolves
Tomas Soucek and Vladimir Coufal have arguably been the Hammers’ two worst players so far this season.
The Czech Republic international duo, with 86 caps between them, have been shadows of their former selves over the past year or so.
Soucek has been completely ineffective for West Ham over the past 6-12 months. He seems to have lost his goalscoring instinct, and whilst his role for the Hammers has undoubtedly changed, his positioning, body shape and shooting technique all seem to be well off.
It’s got to a point now where the ex-Slavia Prague midfielder is badly hindering this West Ham team.
Meanwhile, things have been equally bad for Coufal.
The 30-year-old suffered a groin injury playing for West Ham against Manchester United in the Carabao Cup in September 2021, but kept playing through the pain for quite some time.
He was then forced to spend an extensive period on the sidelines because of the injury and in truth, he never really returned as the same player.
Gone is the player who dominated attackers like Jack Grealish and Heung-Min Son last season.
The 30-year-old right-back is an absolute shadow of his former self…at both ends of the pitch I might add.
In the 2020/21 season, the Czech Republic international bagged seven assists in 34 Premier League outings and averaged 2.1 tackles, 1.2 interceptions, 2.6 clearances and 1.1 dribbles per game (Who Scored).
In the 2021/22 campaign, Coufal regressed in all those categories with just four assists to his name and an average of 1.6 tackles, 0.8 interceptions, 2 clearances and 0.6 dribbles per game (Who Scored).
In seven games so far this season, he’s yet to register an assist and his tackles and clearances stats are even worse than they were last year (Who Scored).
Time for a big change
Something clearly isn’t right.
Both Soucek and Coufal should not be anywhere near the Hammers starting XI for the game against Wolves at the London Stadium this evening.
If they do start for West Ham against Wolves though, David Moyes deserves everything bad coming his way.
Now is the time to change things. After all, the definition of insanity is doing the same things time and time again and expecting different results!
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