‘While the quality of the opposition is so good you have to find a way to stop them,’ says Hammers manager
The trick, as Moyes said before facing City, is knowing when to be expansive and when to be resilient. He insisted that the plan against Brighton and Chelsea was not to see so little of the ball.
“The trophy has given us a feeling of thinking how we can challenge. We want to be a bit more on the front foot. But the teams we’ve played have made us play on the back foot. We’ve not gone out all week and practiced how we’re going to stay behind the ball. It’s been the quality of the other teams. We need to regain more possession.”
Moyes has tried to refine the style. Last summer he signed Nayef Aguerd, a ball-playing centre half, and added Brazilian flourish further forward with the addition of Lucas Paqueta. This time, with the budget swelled by Declan Rice’s £105 million move to Arsenal, there has been a focus on technical players. Ward-Prowse and Edson Alvarez offer elegance and steel in midfield; Mohammed Kudus should bring ingenuity in attack once he adjusts to the Premier League.
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