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“I can’t think of a more defensive West Ham team in my lifetime,” says Jamie Redknapp. “I guess he just wants to make sure they’re difficult to beat. I think he’s looking at it thinking, let’s get control of midfield and then you hope [someone] can do something special. He just hasn’t got the players at his disposal and most of the players that are fit are defensive ones”
Graham Potter has a pre-match chat:
We’re trying to find the right balance between defence and attack, trying to get the team stable. We have to get that balance. But I’m really happy with how the group have taken on the ideas. We’re at the start and we need to keep working.
Whenever you come in January the ideal scenario would be everything’s calm and we’ve no problems or challenges and obviously that’s not the case. But we’ve got a team we’ve been working with this week and a team we’ve been happy with. All you can do is focus on the players you have and keep working.