One quality that any manager needs is luck. Sometimes it takes a referee refusing to award the opposition a seemingly obvious penalty, a winger crossing the ball just before it goes out of play and a stoppage-time equaliser from a forgotten forward for a coach not to find himself having to deal with an early inquest into his tactics.
For Julen Lopetegui, there was no point pretending that West Ham came close to implementing his ideas during this streaky 1-1 draw with Fulham. The Spaniard’s side were outplayed for long spells and Marco Silva could do little but laugh when he looked back at Max Kilman not being punished for bringing Adama Traoré down in the area early on. Fulham’s manager was adamant that Tim Robinson should have awarded a penalty and sent Kilman off.
