{"id":360864,"date":"2011-04-02T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/02\/avram-grant-west-ham-made-it-%e2%80%98too-easy%e2%80%99-for-manchester-united-to-mount-second-half-comeback\/"},"modified":"2011-04-02T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T14:56:00","slug":"avram-grant-west-ham-made-it-too-easy-for-manchester-united-to-mount-second-half-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/02\/avram-grant-west-ham-made-it-too-easy-for-manchester-united-to-mount-second-half-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Avram Grant: West Ham made it \u2018too easy\u2019 for Manchester United to mount second half comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h4>2 Apr 2011 15:56:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"69.034728829686\">\n<div readability=\"14.461538461538\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL : Avram Grant  West Ham - Tottenham (Getty Images) \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/b562c933110562_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>EPL : Avram Grant  West Ham &#8211; Tottenham (Getty Images) <\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"37.640253565769\"><\/p>\n<p>        By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2989\/wayne-veysey\/archive\/1\">Wayne Veysey<\/a> at Upton Park<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/israel\/18720\/avram-grant\">Avram Grant<\/a> admitted that his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/374\/west-ham-united\">West Ham United<\/a> players had made it \u201ctoo easy\u201d for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/manchester-united\">Manchester United<\/a> to stage a brilliant second-half comeback at Upton Park.<\/p>\n<p>Grant\u2019s side took a 2-0 first-half lead after Mark Noble scored a brace of penalties but United dominated the second period to win 4-2 and end the match in complete control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was too easy for them to control the game,\u201d said Grant in his post-match press conference. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the second half they had nothing to lose, put Ryan Giggs at left-back and sent a lot of quality players forward. But we have given them too much space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were a lot of positive things. We wanted to win and did everything very good in the first half. But footballers need to complete two halves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>West Ham have dropped back into the bottom three but Grant is confident his team can avoid relegation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe league will be very tight but I think we can do it because we have come into good shape at the right time,\u201d said the Israeli.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgainst Manchester United you want to take points but you do not count on winning against them. The players know that we will not win Premier League survival until the end of the season. We are still on a good momentum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grant refused to be drawn on the two main controversies of the match, United\u2019s penalty at 2-2 and the crucial moment just before the break when last defender Nemanja Vidic hauled down Demba Ba just outside the box and received a red rather than yellow card.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether Vidic should have been sent off, he replied: \u201cI think so but I don\u2019t want to talk about the referee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grant claimed he \u201cdidn\u2019t see\u201d the penalty conceded by his team but admitted \u201cthe players were very disappointed\u201d at the award by referee Lee Mason.<\/p>\n<div><span><em>Follow the Premier League <strong>LIVE<\/strong> on Goal.com:<\/em><\/span><br \/><span><em>Commentaries, Stats, Player Ratings and much more,<\/em><\/span><br \/><span><em>Visit Goal.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/live-scores\/fixtures?tab=all\">Live Scores<\/a>!<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/b562c933110562_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/04\/02\/2422864\/avram-grant-west-ham-made-it-too-easy-for-manchester-united\" title=\"Avram Grant: West Ham made it \u2018too easy\u2019 for Manchester United to mount second half comeback\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Avram Grant: West Ham made it \u2018too easy\u2019 for Manchester United to mount second half comeback<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 2 Apr 2011 15:56:00 EPL : Avram Grant West Ham &#8211; Tottenham (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players By Wayne Veysey at Upton Park Avram Grant admitted that his West Ham United players had made it \u201ctoo easy\u201d for Manchester United to stage a brilliant second-half comeback at Upton Park. Grant\u2019s side took a 2-0 first-half lead after Mark Noble scored a brace of penalties but United dominated the second period to win 4-2 and end the match in complete control. \u201cIt was too easy for them to control the game,\u201d said Grant in his post-match press conference. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Avram Grant: West Ham made it \u2018too easy\u2019 for Manchester United to mount second half comeback - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/02\/avram-grant-west-ham-made-it-too-easy-for-manchester-united-to-mount-second-half-comeback\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Avram Grant: West Ham made it \u2018too easy\u2019 for Manchester United to mount second half comeback - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"2 Apr 2011 15:56:00 EPL : Avram Grant West Ham - Tottenham (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players By Wayne Veysey at Upton Park Avram Grant admitted that his West Ham United players had made it \u201ctoo easy\u201d for Manchester United to stage a brilliant second-half comeback at Upton Park. 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