Postecoglou jumps to third in Premier League sack race as Lopetegui leads the way

Erik Ten Hag and Steve Cooper have already fallen by the wayside this season. The former paying the price for a sustain spell of abject terribleness and ufabet https://ufabet999.app. The latter apparently doomed by the shame of *checks notes* a narrow defeat to Chelsea

Anyway. The Sack Race never stops, it just shifts targets. And now the glare lands ever more harshly on the relegation-haunted stylings of the managers at Southampton. Everton and Wolves, as well as the feast-or-famine antics of especially Spurs but especially West Ham.

1) Julen Lopetegui
Storm out of Wolves days before the season began a year ago and West Ham is a club. That could test the patience of a saint. Really does have some of the very best attacking players outside the Big Six to work with. Which hopefully reduces the potential for huffing off at the first sign of trouble.

Which is just as well, because the first sign of trouble duly arrived. It’s all a bit feast-or-famine for the Hammers at the moment, with their last five Premier League results including a 4-1 thrashing of Ipswich and a very, very funny Ten Hag-dooming win over Manchester United but also absolute paddlings from Tottenham.

The fact a sacking or huffing are equally acceptable in this market does make this feel like it could be a goer, given Lopetegui’s reputation. However, when apparently handed (ludicrously) two games to save himself he promptly won the first of them at Newcastle and then lost the second heavily to Arsenal. If that left the Hammers hierarchy on the fence, you’d have to imagine a 3-1 defeat at Leicester.

2) Gary O’Neil
Things were generally looking up despite that fairly nasty setback against Bournemouth, which is good because they really, really couldn’t have got any worse. The 4-1 caper at Fulham, which on a sane weekend would have been easily the most eye-catching of away wins, made it eight points from four games after one point from the first eight.