BBC Sport blasts ‘lazy’ Nayef Aguerd after West Ham United incident v Newcastle United, pundit rages on live radio
James Collins was furious with Nayef Aguerd after his error led to Callum Wilson scoring his second goal as Newcastle United beat West Ham United 5-1 at the London Stadium on Wednesday night.
Kurt Zouma’s late first-half goal meant the Irons went into the break 2-1 down and with a chance of rescuing at least a point from what was a shocking opening few minutes in East London.
However, a sloppy piece of play from Aguerd gifted the Magpies a goal to restore their two-goal advantage through Wilson.
Ex-West Ham centre-back Collins slammed the Morocco international’s role in Wilson’s second goal of the night.
“It’s a terrible start. West Ham had got themselves back into it and had something to build on,” Collins said on BBC Radio 5 Live on Wednesday night, as quoted on BBC Sport’s live blog [09:09pm].
“[Lukasz] Fabianski rolls it to Aguerd who gets his feet in a mess. It’s not an intense press but he has got the ball caught under his feet.
“It’s a shocking start for West Ham, David Moyes will be furious.”
Earlier, Aguerd’s touch was described as “lazy” while Moyes’ fury was also pointed out again on the BBC Sport blog.
Woeful
What a disasterclass in defending that was. And not only from West Ham, by the way.
In the first half, we saw a poorly defended corner end up coming back into the box and allowing Wilson to open the scoring.
It goes progressively worse than when Zouma and Thilo Kehrer switched off to allow Joelinton to run in between them and latch onto a straight pass from the Newcastle defence.
And then, the Irons hit rock bottom when Aguerd was caught napping by Jacob Murphy ahead of Wilson’s second of the night.
Moyes should be priding himself on his defensive set-up at the London Stadium but the claret and blue players are so clearly disjointed, lack any kind of communication and seem to have zero passion for the cause.
Moyes probably doesn’t have much longer in the job if we’re going to have more games like that.
Newcastle are a great side but every single goal was easily preventable if we had a bunch of players who had their heads switched on and a manager who can inspire consecutive good performances.