West Ham United are still waiting for their first win under David Moyes, but there were positives to sbobet take from Friday night’s 1-1 draw with Leicester City.The most obvious was Cheikhou Kouyaté’s equaliser, remarkably the first time the London club have scored in the first half of a home league game since the same player found the net against Swansea City on April 8.In fact, they have scored just once in the first half-hour of a league game at the London Stadium in 2017, and that came when they were already 2-0 down to Leicester the last time the teams met.
When a team is struggling so badly – West Ham have conceded an average of two goals per game and won just twice all season – fans can be tempted to cling to whatever they can.When you have no actual heroes to cheer, cult heroes will invariably take on the mantle. Alessandro Diamanti fulfilling that role in West Ham’s run to 17th in 2010, while Ravel Morrison provided the sparks in a similarly dismal 2013-14 campaign which involved 40 points, 40 goals, and the team being booed off after a win.This season, as was the case for parts of the last campaign, the role has been assumed by Arthur Masuaku.
Masuaku is a man of contrasts: a man announced on the big screen at the London Stadium with a French flag alongside his name, having returned from international duty with the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a player signed as a full-back but playing as a winger against the Foxes.The former Olympiacos man gave us an idea of what to expect early on last season, looking impressive going forward in his first few appearances before a display against West Bromwich Albion helped us better understand why there might have been so little competition for his signature.sbobet
