At the end of the Premier League football match, West Ham scored a point with Leicester for a 2: 2 draw. The Czech defender Vladimír Coufal did not finish the match after a not very successful performance. Harvey Barnes, a fast-legged winger, was particularly troubled by him.
The duel with the foxes did not succeed to any of the outposts of West Ham. Both Vladimír Coufal and Aaron Cresswell received both the worst ratings from Moyes’ team from the Football London server.
Although the Hammers quickly got into the lead thanks to another hit by Jarrod Bowen, then the home team put up a higher turn and dominated the match. By the half, Youri Tielemans equalized from the penalty, shortly after the break Ricardo Pereira turned around and only Craig Dawson saved the table’s favorite favorite in the setting.
It was the penalty from which Leicester equalized that the last defender Cresswell caused. In the evaluation of the match, the Football London server blames him for a clumsy hand in the lime, as well as a lax defense. Cresswell received a mark of four points out of ten, as did Coufal. The same was then given to midfielder Pablo Fornals, whose weak form has been talked about for a long time.
What’s up with Coufal?
However, the criticism is directed mainly at the Czech defender, who exceptionally did not play the entire match. “He left the field soon after Harvey Barnes tore him to pieces in the second half and passed him several times,” he beats him in the Football London mark.
The former star of Liverpool and the English national team Jamie Carragher did not spare the Czech back. “He had a really awful second half. Moyes did well to pull him off the field. I don’t know if it was fatigue or fear of how Barnes trained with him during the match,” a Sky Sports expert tried to indicate the reasons for Coufal’s performance.
“We really had problems on that side of the field, especially in the second half,” Moyes admitted. “Leicester had the ball in that area quite often, we couldn’t handle it and positively it wasn’t that. I wanted to change the match on this side,” the coach explained.
Coufal’s performance was also criticized by journalist Antony Martin. “Coufal is in miserable form after groin injuries,” he wrote. The 29-year-old national team was missing from the London team for about two weeks in October. Then it took him a while to return to the starting lineup through young Ben Johnson.
“It was perhaps Coufal’s worst performance in a West Ham jersey. The whole match was given to him by Harvey Barnes,” added Martin, who described Coufal’s performance as shocking. According to him, the bad defense was also the reason for the second collected goal, which the 24-year-old fox midfielder assisted.
“When Coufal came to West Ham for around five million pounds in the autumn of 2020, Moyes seemed to have done well. The Czech national team was absolutely excellent. But now it looks like it could only be a one-season boost. This year, his game is falling and Coufal is just a shadow of himself, “says a Hammers News reporter.
Competition from the academy
He then wonders if Moyes should return Johnson to the starting lineup. However, this may have a catch, the club academy is negotiating a new contract with the management. Negotiations are dragging on and his current contract will expire in the summer.
Fans are worried he might leave for free. According to the insider portal Claret & Hugh, however, West Ham has the option of automatically exercising a two-year option on the player.
Although Coufal has failed in recent matches, Martin hopes to improve. “It’s really disturbing how much Coufal has gotten worse since the end of last season. But maybe it’s just a small ripple, because when it’s full, West Ham is without a doubt a much better team,” he said.
Whether Moyes will withdraw the former Slavia or Liberec player from the basic line-up will be seen no later than on Saturday, when Hammers will face a duel with Newcastle. He visibly came to life after the winter strengthening and left the relegation zone after three wins in a row.
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