Fans make it special to play for the Hammers
Jarrod Bowen says the fans make it special to play for the Hammers and is determined to ensure that Olympiacos feel the bitterness of the Premier League defeat at Villa when the two teams meet on Thursday evening. Hopefully the loss at Villa Park was a one off and the team will be more than ready to extend their unbeaten record in Europe to 18 on Thursday.
Bowen seems pretty sure that may will be the case although we must always bear in mind player reaction when we have been in this position previously. The 4-1 reverse ended a four-game undefeated run in all competitions as the Irons paid the penalty for a series of individual errors at Villa Park.
Bowen’s however scored his sixth goal of the new campaign which saw him join Thierry Henry and Mohamed Salah as the only players to notch in the first five away games of a Premier League campaign.
The No20 says that result will hurt him and his teammates, but that they will use the disappointment as fuel as the east Londoners return to action at Olympiacos in the UEFA Europa League on Thursday. The Hammers need to respond quickly given the next premier League match against Everton and a Carabao Cup game against Arsenal follow – a point needs to be made against the Greece team.
Commenting on the Villa game Bowen declared: “It’s done now – obviously it was an awful day from all of us and it’s something you don’t want to be on the back of, especially conceding four goals.
It’s really disappointing and like I said a poor performance from us – the good thing is that there are a lot of games coming up for us, so we could have Sunday night to be down about it but Monday brought a new week.
Many games to put things right
We go to Greece in midweek before we go back to the Premier League, and like I said we have a lot of games to put it right. We shot ourselves in the foot and there were other aspects of the game we could have been better on too. There’s a lot to work on and we’ll review it going into the new week and look where we can learn from and where we can do better going forward, and be ready for the next one.
When you come off a result like Sunday’s the main thing is to put it right in the next game. That’s what we’ll be working towards for Thursday.
Fans make it special to play for the Hammers
Ever since I’ve been here you can never question the the fans and the away support and passion for this Club. That’s what makes it so special to play for this Club. There are a lot of games coming up – away days, home games and we’re all in this together through the great times and the bad times.
Sunday was one of those bad times and we as players take it on the chin. Of course the fans are going to be disappointed and we share that disappointment, but the main thing is now we rally on, put in positive performances and get results.