David Moyes said his gamers “need to maintain stepping up” after West Ham ended the suitable week with a important four-0 victory at Bournemouth to enhance their survival probabilities.
Moyes’s side fought returned from down to attract with Arsenal, the Premier League leaders, closing Sunday and observed it up with a 4-1 win against Gent on Thursday to book their spot within the Europa Conference League semi-finals.
Relegation has remained a awesome opportunity, though, but they eased those concerns with a medical show where first-half desires by Michail Antonio, Lucas Paquetá and Declan Rice put them on top of things. Pablo Fornals, on as a substitute, added a fourth halfway through the second half to help West Ham to move up to thirteenth and 6 points clear of the bottom three.Despite their Thursday exploits, Moyes made most effective two adjustments on the Vitality Stadium and one become to recollect his first-desire goalkeeper, Lukasz Fabianski. It supposed Antonio were given some other opportunity to steer the road and he rewarded his manager’s faith with a fifth-minute opener.
For Bournemouth it turned into all too smooth, with Aaron Cresswell’s near‑put up corner powered home by the unmarked Antonio for his twelfth goal of the season (although best his fourth in the league). The traffic doubled their gain eight minutes later and, once more, it need to have annoyed Gary O’Neil, the Bournemouth manager.
Vladimir Coufal received possession from Marcus Tavernier and managed Jarrod Bowen’s bypass earlier than his looping cross changed into headed in on the returned post with the aid of Paquetá, who easily outjumped Jack Stephens. It persevered Paquetá’s encouraging form for the reason that World Cup break and backed up his goalscoring show inside the Hammers’ triumph ultimate Thursday.
West Ham’s travelling guide had been taking part in their journey to the south coast and shortly making a song approximately competitors Tottenham, who were 5-zero down at Newcastle interior 21 minutes. Bournemouth had been no longer organized to throw in the towel, however, and Chris Mepham examined Fabianski with a header moments later.Jefferson Lerma become next to strive his luck and Fabianski become again identical to it, but his fine forestall turned into to come. Dominic Solanke muscled his way beyond Nayef Aguerd and raced into the place but Fabianski stored nicely together with his ft to keep West Ham’s two-goal lead after 1/2 an hour.
Having withstood Bournemouth’s fightback, Moyes’s group then provided a sucker punch mins earlier than 1/2-time thru their midfield talisman. Another Cresswell nook brought about troubles and, even as it became cleared to the back put up, Rice changed into first to the unfastened ball and on hand to drill domestic thru a deflection to make it returned-to-again desires this week. The West Ham captain was serenaded through the away enthusiasts soon afterwards, with chants urging him to stay amid talk his future should lie away from the London Stadium.
O’Neil answered with the Wales forward Kieffer Moore added in place of Joe Rothwell at 1/2-time, but it didn’t have the preferred effect. A triple substitution observed on the hour for Bournemouth with Dango Ouattara, the stoppage-time hero at Spurs closing weekend, brought on however, even as he to start with brought about issues, West Ham have been soon celebrating a fourth goal.Bowen did nicely down the right and, at the same time as his cross become barely behind Fornals, the bogus managed to again-heel into the some distance corner to make it 4-0 after seventy two minutes. Maxwel Cornet had a stoppage-time effort dominated out for offside and the West Ham lovers completed the game still chanting for Rice to stay one greater year, with this win as a minimum going a protracted way to confirming their area inside the Premier League subsequent season.
