One West Ham participant let himself and his staff down in direction of the tip of their 5-0 drubbing by the hands of a rampant Liverpool on Sunday night.
The Irons had been steadily constructing a run of excellent kind in December however they merely had no reply to the Premier League leaders, who toyed with Julen Lopetegui’s aspect on the London Stadium yesterday.
A depressing night time for the house staff was compounded by an incident within the lead-up to the ultimate objective which could’ve evaded the eye of some viewers on the time.
As Mo Salah gained possession simply inside Liverpool’s half of the pitch, Diogo Jota was matching his run simply behind him.
The 28-year-old shook off the shut consideration of Lucas Paqueta, who tried to elbow him within the again, just for our quantity 20 to maintain going and, only a few seconds later, make it 5-0 to the Reds.
Even West Ham followers haven’t spared Paqueta for tried elbow on Jota
Even some observers of a West Ham persuasion have been disgusted by the Brazilian’s shameful efforts to impede Jota, with phrases comparable to ‘completely embarrassing‘, ‘unacceptable‘ and ‘a shame‘ used to explain the tried elbow on the Liverpool ahead.
The incident got here simply a few days after Joao Pedro’s vicious swing in direction of Brentford’s Yehor Yarmolyuk, an act for which the Brighton defender inexplicably escaped a crimson card even after a VAR overview.
Had Paqueta merely pulled Jota’s shirt and brought a reserving, at the very least we might’ve excused it as a case of taking one for the staff, however to aim the usage of drive to cease the Portugal worldwide in his tracks is one thing we don’t wish to see.
Not that Jota appeared overly perturbed as he merely carried on together with his run earlier than dispatching the ball to the West Ham web to spherical off a complete victory for Liverpool.
It stays to be seen whether or not or not the FA will take retrospective motion towards Paqueta over the incident. In the event that they do, he wouldn’t precisely be missed, juding by what some Irons supporters have stated in regards to the 27-year-old.
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