Wednesday, 12 February 2014

West Ham United 2 - 0 Norwich City

11/02/2014
19:45
Boleyn Ground

West Ham United vs Norwich City
Goalscorers:
1-0 James Collins 86'
2-0 Mohamed Diamé 94'

Analysis
Three wins in a row?! Four clean sheets in a row?! This is the stuff dreams are made of! This wasn’t a game I expected us to win. To be fair, this probably wasn’t a game we deserved to win, but win we did.

We were pretty poor overall; records of 70% passing accuracy, and just 51% in the opposition half tell their own story, while the number of very good chances that Norwich managed to carve tell another. But maybe this is where our luck has turned recently. A month ago we would’ve crumbled and capitulated. Yesterday, we fought to the end and managed a bit of a smash and grab, in all honesty.

So we played pretty badly, but managed a couple of moments of real impact. In many ways, our performance was epitomised by the returning Mohamed Diamé.

The Senegalese midfielder did almost nothing after coming off the bench last night. For the first 20 minutes after coming on, Diamé attempted two passes (50% success), two crosses (0% success) and two shots (50% on target). He was hardly involved, and didn’t look interested.

In the final 10 minutes, he attempted 3 more passes (66% success), successfully took on Robert Snodgrass, produced the assist for James Collins’ opening, and wrapped up the points in added time with a goal of his own. Basically, he was the match winner.

His heat map below shows how little involvement Diamé had in the game, despite being the man who almost singlehandedly won it for us.


The other man to thank for the points was (yet again) Adrián. The Spaniard has been in inspired form since taking over from Jussi Jääskeläinen, producing a series of goalkeeping master-classes.

This, his fourth clean sheet on the spin (the first time we’ve managed that in the Premier League, I believe), was once again littered with some wonderful saves, and some extremely confident goalkeeping. Not only did the number thirteen produce 6 saves of real high quality, but he also managed to successfully claim 7 Norwich balls into the box – and he only punched it once.

The image below shows the saves Adrián had to make.


Relegation battle? Pssshhh, we’re in the top half now.

Andy who?

General Play
4-2-3-1 Formation 4-2-3-1
(92) Adrián - John Ruddy (-15)
(41) Guy Demel - Russell Martin (-17)
(95) James Collins - Joseph Yobo (16)
(82) James Tomkins - Sebastien Bassong (13)
(53) George McCartney - Martin Olsson (-10)
(63) Mark Noble - Alexander Tettey (36)
(33) Matthew Taylor - Bradley Johnson (-9)
(3) Matt Jarvis - Robert Snodgrass (6)
(-13) Kevin Nolan - Leroy Fer (-26)
(1) Stewart Downing - Nathan Redmond (7)
(-2) Carlton Cole - Gary Hooper (32)

(-10) Marco Borriello - Johan Elmander (-10)
(38) Mohamed Diamé - Anthony Pilington (-6)
(-13) Antonio Nocerino - Ricky van Wolfswinkel (2)

Best Performance
(95) James Collins - Alexander Tettey (36)

Worst Performance
(-13) Kevin Nolan - Leroy Fer (-26)

48% Possession 52%

313 Passes Attempted 350
George McCartney 46 Most Attempted 47 Alexander Tettey

70% Passing Accuracy 73%
51% In Opp. Half 66%
Stewart Downing 88% Best Accuracy (min. 15 passes) 87% Alexander Tettey

73 Long Balls 69
James Collins 16 Most Long Balls (excl. GK) 9 Bradley Johnson

Most Frequent Pass Combination
McCartney to Taylor 12 - 11 Olsson to Fer

9 Aerial Duels Won 11
45% Success 55%
James Tomkins 4 Most Won 4 Sebastien Bassong

George McCartney 80 Most Touches 72 Robert Snodgrass

Offensive Play
12 Attempts on Goal 13
7 On Target 6
4 Off Target 4
1 Blocked 3
42% From Outside the Box 46%
Mohamed Diamé 3 Most Shots 3 Gary Hooper

10 Key Passes 9
Mark Noble 3 Most Key Passes 3 Gary Hooper

27 Crosses 22
Stewart Downing 12 Most Attempted 9 Robert Snodgrass

5 Successful Crosses 5
19% Success 23%
Stewart Downing 3 Most Successful 1 Robert Snodgrass

11 Take Ons Attempted 10
4 Successful Take Ons 2
36% Success 20%
Marco Borriello 2 Most Take Ons 2 Gary Hooper

Defensive Play
23 Tackles Attempted 29
18 Successful Tackles 13
78% Success 45%
Matthew Taylor 5 Most Tackles 4 Joseph Yobo

62 Clearances 65
James Collins 14 Most Clearances 13 Sebastien Bassong

4 Interceptions 7
James Tomkins 2 Most Clearances 3 Robert Snodgrass

3 Shot Blocks 1
Matthew Taylor 2 Most Shot Blocks 1 Sebastien Bassong

Discipline
12 Fouls 16
Guy Demel 3 Most Fouls 4 Robert Snodgrass

1 Yellow Cards 3
West Ham United:  Antonio Nocerino
Norwich City:  Martin Olsson,  Bradley Johnson,  Anthony Pilkington

0 Red Cards 0
West Ham United:
Norwich City:

Head to Heads
Adrián vs John Ruddy
0 Goals Conceded 2
6 Saves 5

7 Claims 1
7 Successful Claims 1
100% Success 100%

32 Total Distribution 38
13 Accurate 13
41% Success 34%

11 Goal Kicks 10
5 Accurate 3
45% Success 30%

2 Throw Outs 3
2 Accurate 3
100% Success 100%

3 Kick from Hand 5
0 Accurate 1
0% Success 20%

16 Other 20
6 Accurate 6
38% Success 30%

0 Errors Leading to Shot 0
0 Errors Leading to Goal 1

James Collins 5 Most Passed To 4 Leroy Fer
James Tomkins 4 Most Passes From 4 Martin Olsson

James Collins vs Sebastien Bassong
4 Aerial Duels 12
1 Duels Won 5
25% Success 42%

2 Tackles Attempted 1
2 Tackles Completed 1
100% Success 100%

14 Clearances 22
1 Interceptions 2
0 Blocks 0
0 6yrd Blocks 0

0 Errors Leading to Shot 0
0 Errors Leading to Goal 0

33 Passes Attempted 11
22 Successful 5
67% Success 45%

0 Crosses Attempted 0
0 Successful 0
0% Success 0%

1 Chances Created 0

1 Attempts on Goal 1
1 On Target 0
1 Goals 0

Mark Noble 4 Most Passed To 6 Bradley Johnson
Guy Demel 6 Most Passes From 7 Joseph Yobo

Mark Noble vs Alexander Tettey
34 Passes Attempted 46
32 Successful 40
94% Success 87%

3 Key Passes 1
1 Assists 0

2 Attempts on Goal 3
1 On Target 1
0 Goals 0

1 Take Ons Attempted 0
1 Take Ons Successful 0
100% Success 0%

5 Tackles Attempted 3
5 Tackles Completed 1
100% Success 33%

1 Clearances 6
1 Interceptions 0
1 Blocks 0
0 6yrd Blocks 0

0 Errors Leading to Shot 0
0 Errors Leading to Goal 0

George McCartney 6 Most Passed To 7 Leroy Fer
George McCartney 5 Most Passes From 9 Russelll Martin

Marco Borriello vs Gary Hooper
1 Attempts on Goal 3
0 On Target 3
0 Goals 0

1 Key Passes 3
0 Assists 0

5 Passes Attempted 20
2 Successful 17
40% Success 85%

0 Take Ons 0
0 Sucecssful Take Ons 0
0% Success 0%

3 Aerial Duels 1
0 Duels Won 1
0% Success 100%

Mark Noble 1 Most Passed To 4 Bradley Johnson

James Collins 2 Most Passes From 5 Bradley Johnson

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