Gone are the days when we were thumped with last minute winners. Now the armchair experts come up with xG shit and can't enjoy the win at OT.
Man, thank God these guys never had anything like this during SAF era. Because, in simple terms that's what I saw against West Ham. Bringing a striker for a midfielder and nicking a last minute winner against a top 4 rival. Who the feck cares if we had a low xG.
Memories seem to be short. Wasn't good results while not performing very well the trademark sign of our last managers reign? Why would we use xG against him but stop looking at it now? There is no need to get defensive, I haven't seen anybody sincerely asking for RR's head, it would be madness. But still, we have to note, that the defensive stability we have shown against Westham was bought by having next to no chances to score. That is a fact - you can decide that the fact isn't as noteworthy for you as the actual result or the defensive performance but you should acknowledge that there are other things as well.
Ole wars have ended, lets just calm down, talk about performances with the tools we have and not constantly feel the need to put people into categories like miserable or naive.
I'm using Footystats FYI. Not really sure what your issue is with what I said. Did we control the game? In my opinion, yes. Did we limit WHUM offensively? Yes. If you want to/expect to see us playing scintillating attacking football already with a new manager, I think your expectations are a bit naïve. If you're looking at the bigger picture the WHUM game was a definite positive when you assess it next to the Villa and Brentford games, particularly when you factor in league position of the opponents.
Your point about luck and their header is bizarre; I could just say Varane's header was much easier, uncontested and he really should have scored or Fred cold have just placed his shot for a routine finish instead of blasting it at Areola.
You are asking if we controlled the game. Many state we did. But I think a fair few of them confound control of the ball and control of the game. Ask yourself: What do you think was Westhams matchplan? Do you think they came here for the win? Or did they come here to be defensively compact and potentially nick a lucky winner? And what was our plan? It was a homegame against a tricky opponent we are fighting against for spot. It was a must-win more or less.
So based on that - who was in control of the game? Whose match plan was executed better? I for one think one team was more comfortable than the other for more than 90minutes.
Control, Dominate - these are tricky terms in football. Way too often the opponents influence on that is neglected. It might be the same here.
But even if - it wouldn't worsen our performance. We played well against a good opponent.