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Declan: “He’s an unbelievable player”

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Declan Rice admits we are still learning in Europe despite our lofty League position.

But a point away from home in the Europa League can’t be sneezed at even if two points were lost via an own goal.

That was hard to take after the Irons had battled their way back into a game which Genk had dominated for a long time but the 22 year old is clearly  more than content with the progress we are making.

He was hugely impressive in  the second half but it would be hard not to have made Said Benrahma man of the match despite a strong Rice performance.

And speaking afterwards Declan was keen to give the £30 million signing as much credit as possible saying: “I’ve been with Saïd for over a year now and I know what he can do. I’m always on at him to keep doing what he’s doing on the pitch – keep expressing himself and keep having the fun that he has.

:Tonight you can see the fun he had, he bailed us out with his two goals and he’s an unbelievable player.”

At the top of the table and now as certain as it gets to moving to the next stage is brilliant and will give the lads a three month break fropm Thursday/ Sunday football.

And Declan added:” “We still have two tough games left, we have to go to Vienna and play Zagreb at home, but we want to finish top. We don’t want to come second in the group, we want to finish top and proceed to the next round.

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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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