West Ham had scored 6 in their last 2 matches and they started like it. Felipe Anderson ran at Aaron inside 30 seconds. Declan Rice took the ball off Eze in the 4th minute and again in the 9th, and after the 2nd he stood over him and held a hand out to pull him up.
"COME ON YOU IRONS! COME ON YOU IRONS!"
14 minutes. Zaha took a pass from Chilwell on the left with Pablo Zabaleta in front of him. He went outside. Zabaleta went with him. He stopped and went again, and the 2nd time Zabaleta was a yard short. Zaha hit it across Fabianski into the far side of the net.
Thump.
0-1.
He ran to the technical area, straight past me, and pointed at Rebecca with both hands. Rebecca looked at her watch.
Manuel Pellegrini stood at the front of his technical area in a long dark coat with his hands behind his back and watched Zaha run past. At half time he sent Andy Carroll on for Lucas Pérez.
They stopped passing through us and started hitting Carroll's head from the halfway line.
Tonk.
