{"id":149847,"date":"2025-09-20T20:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/149847\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T20:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:03:07","slug":"two-graham-potter-blunders-as-tony-gale-baffled-by-what-lucas-paqueta-did-in-west-ham-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/149847\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Graham Potter blunders as Tony Gale baffled by what Lucas Paqueta did in West Ham loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jarrod Bowen was the standout performer, Graham Potter\u2019s team selection was questioned, and West Ham United conceded another set-piece goal. <\/p>\n

Just your standard weekend at the London Stadium, then.<\/p>\n

In the most typical of West Ham United<\/a> defeats, the home side fell behind to a Jean-Philippe Mateta header from a Crystal Palace corner as \u00a340 million centre-back Max Kilman committed the cardinal sin of being outjumped inside his own six yard box. <\/p>\n

That, by the way, is the seventh set-piece goal the Hammers have conceded this season already. Palace boss Oliver Glasner highlighted that weakness<\/a> pre-match. It took his team only 37 minutes to expose that old Achilles heel.<\/p>\n

Captain Jarrod Bowen headed home a Malick Diouf delivery<\/a> as West Ham equalised via a corner of their own, but any riposte for Graham Potter<\/a> would be very short-lived. <\/p>\n

Just days after vice-chair Karren Brady held talks with Nuno Espirito Santo<\/a> \u2013 the former Nottingham Forest boss continues to loom ominously over his likely predecessor \u2013 Hammers legend Tony Gale watched on from the commentary booth as the boos rang out.<\/p>\n

\"GrahamPhoto by MB Media\/Getty ImagesTony Gale highlights \u2018strange\u2019 Graham Potter decisions as Crystal Palace beat West Ham United<\/p>\n

On an afternoon where the West Ham faithful directed their ire towards David Sullivan<\/a> and the aforementioned Brady, Potter would not escape his share of the blame.<\/p>\n

The Hammers were booed off at half-time, when 1-0 down, and at full-time too following Tyrick Mitchell\u2019s stunning volleyed winner on 68 minutes. Some of the loudest jeers could be heard as Mateus Fernandes walked off the pitch, though. <\/p>\n

Potter\u2019s decision to remove one of West Ham\u2019s few creative talents at 2-1 behind earning the beleaguered boss a furious response.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Fernandes] has been a breath of fresh air. I watched that [3-0 win over Nottingham] Forest, he was a revelation,\u201d says Gale, who made over 300 appearances for the Hammers between 1984 and 1994.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they\u2019ve made some good signings, to be fair. Diouf, Fernandes, [Soungoutou] Magassa, [Kyle] Walker-Peters. But, as always, you\u2019ve got to get results.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Taking Fernandes off when they needed a goal was] a strange one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking of Magassa, the \u00a314 million signing from Monaco was limited to another cameo appearance off the bench. With James Ward-Prowse again anonymous \u2013 if there is ever another Invisible Man re-make, we\u2019d recommend booking an audition \u2013 next week\u2019s trip to David Moyes\u2019 Everton simply must herald Magassa\u2019s full debut in a West Ham shirt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m surprised that young man didn\u2019t start, really,\u201d Gale adds, though he did show some sympathy towards a coach whose position is now starting to feel untenable. \u201cPotter must be wondering what he has to do to win a game at the London Stadium. <\/p>\n

\u201cMissed chances, good goalkeeping at the other end, and then the sucker punch [of Mitchell\u2019s winner].\u201d<\/p>\n

Gale baffled after seeing Lucas Paqueta in his own penalty box <\/p>\n

Gale was left particularly bemused as Lucas Paqueta<\/a> popped up inside his own box in stoppage time as Crystal Palace threatened to score a third on the break. This was, in truth, a typical Paqueta performance in claret and blue.<\/p>\n

A few clever flicks and highlight reel moments, undermined by a general lack of involvement in key moments when they needed his game-breaking talents the most.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Centre-back] Kilman was nowhere to be seen,\u201d Gale laughs ruefully. \u201cAnd you end up with your most creative midfielder as a sweeper!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jarrod Bowen was the standout performer, Graham Potter\u2019s team selection was questioned, and West Ham United conceded another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,1605,20666,35944,221,43092,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-149847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-graham-potter","10":"tag-lucas-paqueta","11":"tag-mateus-fernandes","12":"tag-premier-league","13":"tag-soungoutou-magassa","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}