{"id":224796,"date":"2025-10-25T14:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224796\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T14:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:03:11","slug":"rob-green-explains-the-sam-allardyce-tactic-nuno-simply-has-to-repeat-at-west-ham-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224796\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Green explains the Sam Allardyce tactic Nuno simply has to repeat at West Ham now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Things have got so bad, so quickly, under Nuno Espirito Santo at West Ham United that former Upton Park goalkeeper Rob Green thinks there may be only one solution. A Sam Allardyce-inspired solution, at that.<\/p>\n

And, say what you want about \u2018Big Sam\u2019, when it comes to his time in the West Ham United<\/a> dugout, arguably only David Moyes could be considered more successful across the last 15 years.<\/p>\n

Allardyce inherited a Hammers team at rock bottom in 2011. He guided them back to the Premier League at the first time of asking, and then immediately consolidated them in the top-flight with three successive finishes between 10th and 13th.<\/p>\n

Oh how West Ham would love to be sitting in 13th right now.<\/p>\n

Nuno Espirito Santo<\/a> suffered a third straight defeat on Friday night as West Ham gifted Leeds all three points<\/a> at Elland Road. The home side barely had to get out of second gear, too. And, as Nuno shook his head in disbelief<\/a> on the sidelines, he looked as beaten as his team did in West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n

Though Rob Green, the former England goalkeeper who spent some time under Allardyce at Upton Park, feels there is something Nuno can learn from one of his claret-and-blue predecessors.<\/p>\n

\"NunoPhoto by Stu Forster\/Getty ImagesRob Green on what Nuno can learn from Sam Allardyce at West Ham United<\/p>\n

As Tony Cottee again questioned the absence of Callum Wilson<\/a> from Nuno\u2019s XI \u2013 albeit he would enter the fray 25 minutes in as an Ollie Scarles injury sparked an early reshuffle \u2013 a physical Leeds outfit exposed West Ham\u2019s Achilles heel once again at the other end of the park.<\/p>\n

The header scored by Joe Rodon, putting Leeds 2-0 up inside just a quarter of an hour, was the ninth set-piece goal the Hammers have conceded in nine Premier League matches.<\/p>\n

Now, Allardyce has frequently talked about the importance of dead-balls over the years. A team capable of scoring from them, and defending them, will always give themselves a chance of staying out of danger. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is one thing they can go and do,\u201d Green says. \u201cGo and stand on the training pitch and do it over and over again. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou do that every day until you are sick to the teeth of it, and you are so bored that you think, when it comes to a game, \u2018the one thing we are not doing is conceding from a corner, because I don\u2019t want to go out next week and do day after day after day of set-pieces\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is the only thing they can do. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe did it under Sam Allardyce. He said, \u2018you\u2019re not very good at this. We are repeating, repeating, repeating set-pieces\u2019. And it worked. You do it ad nauseam, and then you go out and you repeat on the pitch. <\/p>\n

\u201cUntil they repeat it on the pitch, they are not giving themselves a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nuno disappointed as old weaknesses return at Elland Road <\/p>\n

Nuno initially felt West Ham had made progress<\/a> regarding their weakness from set-pieces. However, since keeping dead-ball specialists Arsenal at arms\u2019 length, the Hammers found themselves bombarded by Bournemouth and unable to stop the 6ft 4ins figure of Rodon heading past Alphonse Areola in West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a goal from a corner, something\u00a0that we slightly improved in the previous game, but they punished us again,\u201d a dejected Nuno said.<\/p>\n

\u201cCommitment, focus and responsibility is all that we want from our players.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is now West Ham\u2019s worst start to a season in 52 years. Even the infamous Derby County side of 2007\/08 \u2013 statistically the worst ever to grace the Premier League \u2013 had more points at this stage than the Hammers\u2019 four.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are two huge psychological barriers at the bottom of the Premier League,\u201d adds Green, who knows a thing or two about the subject having battled relegation with West Ham, Norwich City and Queens Park Rangers. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne is the dotted line. If you\u2019re below it, it\u2019s panic stations. If you\u2019re above it, you will continue believing you are OK.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut then there\u2019s the points per game ratio. If you are just above [averaging a point-per-game], you\u2019ve always got a game or two in advance. That is what Leeds have got now. They\u2019ve got that little cushion. That just buys a manager a bit of time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Things have got so bad, so quickly, under Nuno Espirito Santo at West Ham United that former Upton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,2240,45733,221,95873,72813,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-224796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-leeds-united","10":"tag-nuno-espirito-santo","11":"tag-premier-league","12":"tag-rob-green","13":"tag-sam-allardyce","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\/224796","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=224796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}