only me » Mon Dec 12, 2016 8:00 am wrote:redshade » Mon Dec 12, 2016 12:48 am wrote:Watched replays of Payets goal quite a few times and have to admit Karius positioning was poor and movement slow. He should have saved that.
The freekick did not have alot of power behind it.
There was a massive gap and payet picked the obvious choice.
Second goal after watching it again few times was a defensive clanger.
Matip did not read the ball at all.
2nd goal ,the original "sin" was of course Matip's but Karius reaction was just terrible...Really against basic goal keeping instincts.
The second goal was a bit unlucky, that header could have ballooned anywhere but it fell perfectly for West Ham. The first however was awful keeping, as redshade points out Karius's starting position was way too far to his left and he gave Payet a big target to aim for, even then Payet didn't manage to find the corner, Karius palmed it there making it look a better free kick than it actually was. When you look at it face on it should have been a routine save.
As I said yesterday this keeping farce needs sorting, all our rivals have keepers like Courtois, De Gea, Lloris and even Cech who continually pull their teams out of the s[hit] where as our keepers continually drop us right in it.
Over our last 2 games we scored an average of 2.5 goals per game yet came away with a paltry point out of a possible six. With our keeper/defence we need to score about 4 goals a game to secure the three points where as for teams like Chelsea one goal is often enough.