By Louis Nixon

Soungoutou Magassa was among many in the squad who had a dreadful performance this evening, and despite having a positive start to his Hammers career, today was a day to forget for the Frenchman. 

It was a woeful performance all around the pitch, no desire in sight and the fight of a sloth. It was the first fixture in a long while where the midfield didn’t have a standout performance. We have previously hailed the midfield for their shining attributes amongst the dark times, but this evening it was all doom and gloom, especially for Songatou Magassa, who was at fault for two of the three goals the Hammers let Wolves ship in. 

The first one not entirely his fault, but the Frenchman in midfield failing to block the Wolves forward, which resulted in Mavropanos being lost and Kilman marking the wrong man, leaving Wolves to tap it in at the backpost just four minutes in, with the second mistake coming around 25 minutes later, Magassa attempting to reach a loose ball in the penalty area, and meerely missing the ball he clipped Wolves’ man and the game was done and dusted before the third had even gone in. 

The Frenchman did, in fact, only commit one foul whilst on the pitch for 45 minutes, but that foul was conveniently the one that the penalty was for!

All in all, it was a dismal and underwhelming performance, so poor that the midfield of Potts and Magassa themselves were hooked off in the second half for Mayers and Tomas Soucek, both the replacements would have null effect, but that might’ve primarily been due to Wolves packing up and shutting up shop for the second half, who could blame them! We would do the same if we were ever 3-0 up… 

It would be harsh to sit here and claim that Magassa should be replaced next match, especially given the options that we currently have, but today it all didn’t seem to fall into place, and every piece available didn’t want to work. 

An extremely bad week in the office for West Ham and a bad day off for Soungoutou Magassa, he and we certainly will be hoping not see a performance as such once again in just three days’ time.