West Ham had offered next to nothing as an attacking force and it is difficult to see the club’s support grinning and bearing this sort of fare on a regular basis. Against the ranks that West Ham massed behind the ball, his team pressed on to the front foot but they could not find a way through. West Ham are in a highly focused defensive phase and it works for them at the moment. West Ham were happy to allow Arsenal to come on to them because they believed that they could land punches on the counterattack and Moyes’s 3-5-2 often became 5-3-2. West Ham United 0-0 Arsenal: Premier League – as it happened Read moreArsenal pushed in the second half and the game seemed to distil into a single issue.

Source: The Guardian December 13, 2017 22:05 UTC