Pablo Fornals’ performance against Leicester received a mixed response among Hammers fans as the team grabbed the latest of points at the Power King Stadium.

David Moyes had asked for more from him earlier in the week and it will be interesting to see what he made of his display when he comes to pick the team for the Newcastle game at the weekend.

I personally thought he took up good positions was involved in some decent short passing movement at times and provided crosses into the box from which we could have done better – others described his showing as mediocre.

Whereas earlier in the week against Watford a one goal lead was seen out for three points, yesterday saw us let the Foxes back into the game for us to eventually take our points tally to 41 instead of 43 with 13 games still left to play.

And afterwards Fornals told www.whufc.com: “The first half I think we deserved to win, but the second half was honestly for them.

“With how the game was, I think it was a big point for us. We are a top team. Top teams sometimes don’t play as well as people expect, but they get points, and that’s what we did.

“For us, getting points week in, week out is massive. We just want to keep adding points to our total and try to finish with as many points as we can at the end.”

No other Premier League side has scored more goals from corner kicks than West Ham’s 25 since the start of 2020 and return of manager David Moyes.

When aligned with Leicester’s poor record defending such instances this season – Dawson’s goal was their 14th set-piece concession this campaign alone – the statistics pointed to such an avenue being potentially profitable.

“We are a strong team from set pieces,” Fornals said of the centre-back’s goal.

“Jarrod is one of the best takers in the league, one hundred per cent, and we also have big targets to hit.

“We didn’t have a lot of set pieces, but we are dangerous from them. They tried to make changes to finish the game – they put on another centre-back at the end – but they didn’t defend the last set piece well.

“We are a strong team at set pieces, defending and attacking. It’s what we’ve been doing for a long time.”

“Leicester are used to fighting for European spots as well, like us, so you can never expect a team like them to be bad. 

“They have really good players, a really good coach and when they are good, this stadium is tough to play at. We didn’t come here thinking ‘Leicester are dead’ because they never are.

“They are not in the best moment in the league probably, but fans don’t need too much to support their team and they did that. It was a great atmosphere.

“After how the second half was, it’s a fair result for us.”