Potter has a headache to choose Statistics will surprise you – claretandhugh

Following a highly praised first start for the senior team, Andy Irving, he will probably give the West Ham’s head coach some of the scratches after a successful initial debut against Chelsea.

Much has been written about the cult status of Irving, its rise from nowhere to the choice of the first team and the reason it is so popular: the person puts a shift.

What can be a little less obvious is its effectiveness. Fighting, not the fastest, but ready to go crazy, it was also at the top of the West Ham’s passage. From The Athletic came this rather striking small graphic that I will share with you: the top passerby at Claret and Blue against Chelsea was …

This is a very high degree of accuracy. In context, this is a little higher than Edson Alvarez has succeeded in the last time. Plus, it seems that Irving is playing with his brain associated with his feet, without the head -free chicken regime, in which Alvarez Straca (Clucks) inevitably leads to late challenges and fouls.

Irving also appears to speed now: Speaking to Whufc.com, he admitted that the work was huge:

“In terms of intensity, it’s crazy to be honest, intensity and physical production you need to put, but I work like crazy in the gym three or four times with CAL (Fitness Coach Callum Foster) a week to try to adapt To him. I’m just delighted with the opportunity. “

Edson Alvarez has grown into a massive responsibility for a yellow card with the biggest disciplinary record in the club, which will not sit well with his main coach: now he is competing for his opening place. James Ward-Prose, who returns to a stadium in London, further complicates the question-the clear thing is that Guido Rodriguez’s chances of starting to withdraw further and further and the status of his player “domestic part” is unlikely to change S

Graham Potter has the difficult choice of who to start and who to put on the bench when everyone is fit. He would have been brave to bring Irving to Alvarez in the initial eleven, but of all the comments in our forum, that’s what fans hope he will do. Irving seems destined in minutes, whether in the starting XI or outside the bench – he paid Potter’s faith delightfully on Monday night.