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Chicharito makes his ambition clear

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It sounds so straightforward when you read the words but stop for a second – what you are about to read from Chicharito all happened within milimteres of a moment.

The Mexican scored one of the most valuable goals possible when he beat Courtois to give the Hammers a share of the spoils yesterday and here he explains what went on his mind blow by blow of that mili-moment.

After the match he told the official site: “Marko made a good run and then a clever pass behind him, because I think it was like a ‘no-look’ pass and the ball came to me and thankfully I decided I would score and I did!

“When I saw the ball coming, I know where I am and when I’m looking back to the ball to shoot it, I saw a blue shirt, Cahill I think, moving to my left, so I decided to shoot it at the near post.

“I also knew Courtois was on the other side, thinking I was going to shoot the long way, but I shot at the near post and thankfully the ball went in.”

“After that, in the final ten or 15 minutes, we created two or three more chances, but unfortunately we didn’t take one. Chelsea also created some good chances, but Joe was the MVP with his unbelievable saves.”

Given that was his eighth goal this term he will be looking for more minutes over the final six games and said: “I’m looking to play 90 minutes every game.

“I want to give a headache to the manager so he has to decide, like all the squad. You can see Patrice Evra also came in and did a good job.

“We have some players who are injured who are trying to come back and we have a very good squad and we all want to play more than 20 minutes, that’s for sure. We also know that everybody wants to give everything to help the team.

“We are all happy because, after the good performance the team put in against Southampton we wanted to show consistency and I think we did it.

“We showed consistency in our concentration and Joe put in a great performance, as did the rest of us, and we got a very important point.

“With this point, it’s going to be pretty good this week. We can work with confidence after getting three points at home and a good point at Stamford Bridge, knowing how difficult it is to go there, and now we have a very important match, another final, against Stoke. So, we’re going to fight to get another three points at home and that can take us out of the relegation battle completely.”

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Hugh Southon is a lifelong Iron and the founding editor of ClaretandHugh. He is a national newspaper journalist of many years experience and was Bobby Moore's 'ghost' writer during the great man's lifetime. He describes ClaretandHugh as "the Hammers daily newspaper!"

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  • Hammer64 says:

    A win would be brilliant but Stoke will be tough. I can’t see Southampton going down, so I’m hoping Swansea &/or Huddersfield stumble. Both our game & Saints vs Gooners showed that at this stage you can get points from so called ‘tough’games. Maybe Man U will be focusing on the cup by the time we play them. Arsenal played a few second string players yesterday & same might apply to them with Europe League. Just a shame we have not got two easy games coming up to get 6 points or even 4 to get this rubbish season over with.

  • LJ says:

    For me his celebration meant a lot more than his words. You could see he was making a point, Raisnig his hands like why the hell am I always benched! I understand Marko has been great, but this guy is a natural goalscorer. We hailed him as an excellent signing and when given the chance he has scored. 8 goals and he hasnt played very much. Imagine if we had played him more with a supporting CAM!

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