West Ham show positives despite shipping five

West Ham are showing signs that we can actually fight our way out of relegation and this might seem surprising given the Liverpool score.

Let me explain why that score has not destroyed my hope.

So, against Liverpool, conceding five goals is never what you want, but we suffered from the same issues we've had for so long: our inability to defend against balls into the box and giving the opposition so much time with the ball in dangerous positions.

When you watch the goals back, it is the same themes we've seen before - they're unchallenged, giving Liverpool players time to calmly send the ball into the box. Some took a deflection but, ultimately, we let them get too close to the goal without challenging them. Again, this has cost us massively and meant that we weren't in with a shot of winning that game.

But there are positives which make me think there is still hope West Ham stay up.

First of all, we did manage to score two against Liverpool, which in any normal game you'd see as a decent result from an attacking perspective. When you look at the stats, we had 50% possession, we had 10 shots - five of which were on target - we had just four fewer passes than Liverpool and a passing accuracy of 82%.

So, when you look at the stats alone, we did manage to hold our own to some degree and compete, and this is why, despite that scoreline, I do think that West Ham are showing signs we can still outscore the opponents we have coming up. I say outscore because we really do struggle to keep clean sheets.

Up next we've got Fulham, which is going to be a massive test of how we can perform against a mid-table side.

These are the points we need to be getting and I'm hopeful we can get enough goals against them to take home the three points.

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