Big bonus awaits a Hammers win tonight

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2 years ago

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David Moyes wants the Hammers to take another step towards relieving the heavy fixture congestion they are under when they take on Anderlecht this evening at the London Stadium.

A win would avoid having to add two fixtures to their packed schedule by finishing top of their Europa Conference League group.

The runners up in each group gave to play a two-legged knockout tie to reach the last 16, whereas the top teams automatically make it through.

The Hammers lead Group B with three wins from three and face Anderlecht at home tonight with a win the only priority in the manager’s world at this stage of things following the victory in Belgium.

Gianluca Scamacca scored the winner away to the Belgians last week as a substitute and the £35.5million striker is expected to start tonight, with Michail Antonio suffering from the flu.

‘We want to qualify first and foremost, but even better than that would be to win the group because it would knock a couple of games off,’ manager Moyes admitted.

Asked how beneficial that would be, the Scot added: ‘It really would. The week after we’ve got a game Monday, Thursday, Sunday, which sounds ridiculous but that’s the way the fixture list has got it.

‘We’ve tried to do something about it. It’s a congested period as it is. Surely you would try to make it less congested.’