West Ham United drew against Southampton on Saturday, and there are now even more questions being asked of Graham Potter.
It was yet another drab performance from the West Ham players, and Potter has so much work to do if he is to get a tune out of the current group of players at the London Stadium before the season ends.
Potter supposedly has grand plans to transform the West Ham squad this summer.
However, he has to find a way of getting the best out of what he currently has available to him up until the end of the season.
What he has served up since replacing Julen Lopetegui three months ago has been underwhelming to say the least.
And if he’s honest with himself, he will know he hasn’t performed well enough in his role as Hammers head coach.
It’s still early days of course, but Potter just doesn’t seem to be learning from his mistakes.
West Ham duo James Ward-Prowse and Carlos Soler were awful vs Southampton
James Ward-Prowse and on-loan midfielder Carlos Soler started the game against Southampton in a double pivot.
It’s not that either of them are terrible players. Ward-Prowse is highly experienced in the Premier League, whilst Soler possesses impressive technical ability.
However, Potter deciding to use them as a partnership in central midfield was an utterly bizarre call.
Where’s the energy, pace, power and ball carrying ability supposed to come from with those two in the engine room?
Tomas Soucek has his critics but give me him over those two every day of the week.
Ward-Prowse and Soler both lack physicality. Neither of them can tackle and they offered zero dynamism in the middle of the pitch for the Hammers against Southampton.
Potter has to learn quickly that he cannot keep making basic selection mistakes. Every West Ham fan and their dogs could see that starting the Englishman and the Spaniard alongside one another was never going to work.
The balance was just completely wrong from the get-go.
Make no mistake, pressure firmly on Graham Potter’s shoulders at West Ham
Hopefully Potter isn’t under the illusion that he has a free hit at West Ham until the end of the season.
The 1-1 draw with Southampton at the London Stadium on Saturday was truly abysmal.
In fact, the Hammers’ form since Potter took over West Ham in January has been nowhere near good enough.
He hasn’t got a free pass just because of the rebuild that is required at West Ham.
The former Brighton and Chelsea boss continues to make appalling selection decisions, whilst his in-game management is questionable to say the least.
Starting two lightweight midfielders likes Ward-Prowse and Soler alongside one another against Southampton was such a rookie error from Potter.
And if the 49-year-old doesn’t wise up to those kind of mistakes quickly, his spell at the London Stadium may well be short-lived.
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