Vladimir Coufal was left furious after West Ham let go of a 2 goal advantage to lose 4-3 to Newcastle.

No matter who you blame for it, West Ham losing to Newcastle in the fashion they did is totally unacceptable. Not only were they 2 goals up, but they were completely in control of the game. 

Unfortunately, the Hammers allowed the Geordies back into the game. While some believe it is the officials’ fault due to some questionable decisions, Vladimir Coufal understands the responsibility lies with the players. 

“It’s just difficult to find the right words, it’s so frustrating, but when we scored to make it three-one, we just just stopped playing and we didn’t play well enough,” he told the official site. “We just sat back and waited for them to score it looked like for me from the pitch and that’s it. We just waited and waited and they turned the game.”

“It’s so, so difficult. You know, maybe some of the decisions in recent weeks aren’t going our direction, but we are on the pitch and we can  affect the decisions with how we play so it’s up to us and unfortunately we lost three points today.”

“From my point of view, it looked like we just sat back and we just let them play. We invited them close to our box and they have enough quality to break us through, so they were everywhere, they had every second ball it looked like they always had one extra player everywhere. They just worked harder than us.”

However, apart from the last 30 minutes, the game demonstrated just how dominant West Ham can be. In fact, they’ve shown it quite a lot recently but only in spells. Coufal believes they need to keep the intensity up across 90 minutes if they are to succeed.

“From from my point of view, we overwhelmed Burnley in the second half absolutely because we played all-in. We beat Freiburg five-nil, because we were able to keep doing stuff that our staff asked us to do for 90 minutes, so we just need to play 90 minutes how we are asked to play and that’s it.”

“We need to be braver. We need to we need to play with more risk and everything and that’s it.”

“I love atmosphere here – it’s just you know so electric and so enthusiastic and you can feel the passion of local people, it’s just just amazing,” he observed. “When they scored from a second penalty I thought on the pitch that the stadium was going to explode so this was amazing.”

“We need this atmosphere against Tottenham on Tuesday. We need our crowd right on their toes and hopefully they will help us and hopefully we will reward them with good football and a good result.”

When it comes to playing Tottenham, the atmosphere is always electric at the London Stadium. The players need to give the fans something to cheer about and the fans need to be the 12th man. With this cooperation, the Irons will have a very good chance of walking away with a positive result.