Hutch’s Patch: paying the price of wastefulness against West Ham

Rob Hutchison is quick off the mark with another of his occasional sets of one-word verdicts. ‘Failure to beat teams like this who were unable to put us away will eventually cost us,’ he warns after the disappointing 1-0 defeat at West Ham. ‘You could have kept the shirt off my back in return for a win.’ Not all his judgements will meet universal approval; PVA made one dreadful mistake but was otherwise OK, according to Monsieur Salut, and Defoe just did what all strikers do – fail to hit the target from every opportunity and, since he gets so few, what can we expect? …

Vito 6 adequate

Pva 5 howler

Kone 7 authoritative

JOS 7 concentrated

Yedlin 6 pacey

Kirchhoff 7 influential

M’Vila 6 sporadic

Catts 5 struggled

Khazri 6 frustrating

N’Doye 6 peripheral

Defoe 5 rusty

Substitutes:

Rodwell 7 energetic

MOTM Kirchoff who left it all on the pitch