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West Ham played 4231, with Zouma, Mavropanos, Coufal, Emerson at the back, Soucek, Álvarez at the back, Ward-Prowse at attacking midfielder, Paquetá, Kudus on the wings, and Bowen up front. West Ham's main winger, Antonio, was injured, so they put the experienced Bowen up front. Bowen up front.
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Also playing 4231 with Evans, Kambwala, Wan-Bissaka, Luke Shaw at the back, McTominay, Mainoo at the back, Beefy at attacking midfielder, Antony, Garnacho on the wings, and Højlund up front.
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As usual, West Ham did not play fast at the beginning of the game, but lowered the speed in slowly grabbing the ball and transferring, especially after the injury of Antonio, who is very strong, it is more difficult for West Ham to play a long ball to him to receive the ball to become a bridgehead in front of the field and then everyone rushed forward tactics, so the overall in the slow speed of the game.
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Not playing fast themselves, the passing situation on West Ham's side looked good and every now and then they'd push forward to try and cross or even invade, outside the box line.
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Knowing that their defense was shaky, they were also careful to play the pass, and the two teams were testing for 15 minutes in the first half, after which B Faye began to have situations where he moved to the left flank to help Garnacho with his push-stacking, but
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Didn't come up quite far enough, so while B Fee & Garnacho were both kind of on the verge of coming out on the left side, no one was able to pick it up and had to force a pass up the middle to be blocked
34 minutes.
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Kudus missed a pass on the right side of the center line, Antony got the ball on the 27-yard line and passed it across the field, Garnacho rushed up to get the ball and turned it into a one-touch shot, but his shot from 8-yard box was in a weird position, he should have tried to change the angle of the shot at the last minute to kick the ball at the near post but didn't do it properly and the kick went out of bounds.
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Seeing that there was a chance, there was a big press up the attack next, and did press West Ham quickly, but West Ham defended tightly in the middle and Højlund couldn't find a chance, and in fact
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The crosses from both wings were interfered with by two West Ham defenders at the last moment, and even if Højlund ran well to get out of an unmarked position, the ball couldn't go in, and the first half ended in a tie between the two teams.
At the start of the second half, West Ham took advantage of Bowen's move to the left to help with the attack to allow Emerson to cross for a corner, which was then played to the far post for Bowen to punch in, which was quite quick, but was centrally blocked by Onana.
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After taking Højlund off and replacing him with Rashford at 57:00
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Their tactic was to press forward, keeping Evans, Kambwala and Mainoo at the back, Luke Shaw and Wan-Bissaka in front and McTominay in the center, leaving the two inexperienced youngsters in the defensive zone, and letting the two experienced wingbacks come forward to help the attack, and then pressing the opponent as hard as they could to prevent them from counterattacking. Without their main center forward, West Ham will not be able to hit the ball easily.
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Defense, this approach is really good
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West Ham knew they couldn't afford to be on the defensive, so they went on the attack and scored immediately. In the 71st minute, Bowen played an aerial two-on-one with Paquetá in the middle of the right flank, and the distance between the two was so great that Bowen went past Mainoo and into the penalty area to face the keeper, and Onana couldn't block it and Bowen kicked it home.
