Like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde from the famous novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, West Ham are showing two faces this season. Stevenson’s compatriot and the Hammers’ coach David Moyes faces a campaign in which his team is exquisite in the UEFA Conference League but bottling it massively in the Premier League.Only Chelsea and United spent more than West Ham yet the Hammers are in the relegation zoneThey are now on the very edge of the relegation zone, and it’s difficult to say whether it is a lack of interest, poor quality, bad tactics or something else to blame. Even Moyes himself fails to comprehend what the issue is. As he says, just when they fix one problem, another one appears.”I feel as if we’ve had some jagged edges at times. Sometimes it’s been defensively, sometimes it’s been attacking, sometimes we’ve maybe not done so well on set pieces, or there has just been a bit of a jagged edge on something, whatever we’ve done this season,” said Moyes.##NAJAVA_MECA_6745589##”Just not quite as smooth as we’ve been, but I think there are bits of it where I thought this is good. I thought the football we played against Southampton at times was very good. I thought again, the other night [against Liverpool], we played some really good stuff.”There have been parts of the games where we’ve had to suffer, we’ve not played quite as well for the whole 90 minutes and we’ve got to find a way of not conceding a goal in that time and get through that rocky patch, whether it be the first half or whether it be in the second half, whenever it may be, I think we’ll be okay. We’ve tended not to be able to sustain it for maybe the whole 90 minutes at the moment.”First goal of the season for @_DeclanRice 🔥 pic.twitter.com/q5U86Yvndt— West Ham United (@WestHam) October 16, 2022 In the EPL, the London team has scored only nine goals so far, which is a scandalous figure if we compare it to the fact that Erling Haaland alone has found the back of the net 17 times, while Harry Kane and Aleksandar Mitrovic have scored 10 and nine goals, respectively. It is better not to compare the Hammers with other teams – only Nottingham Forest and Wolverhampton, the two lowest-placed teams in the table, are more ineffective than West Ham.Weekly Buzz: Ababu promises heaven, Benzema gets holy grail as CR7 stocks fallBournemouth will be a tough nut to crack. After a weak start to the season and a 9-0 debacle at Anfield, the Premier League newcomers escaped from the danger zone with four draws and two victories.
