Antonio’s form will be so important
Michail Antonio grabbed the first hat-trick of his career and added a fourth as the Irons took a giant step towards Premier League safety to send the Canaries down.
The result never looked in doubt as the Irons stepped on the gas from the start with Antonio scoring his goals in the 11th, 46th,54ist and 71st minutes.
To call it a man of the match performance does him an injustice – he went through the work and display of three or four of them.
He was absolutely relentless terrorising the shocking Canaries defence and produced probably the best show of the season from any Hammer player.
It was a genuime 10 out of 10 performance but although he was the shining star he was surroiunded by a galaxy in the likes of Bowen, Soucek, Cresswell, Rice, Diop and Fredericks.
The reality was there wasn’t a bad performance anywhere – they all did their job and although the opposition was poor find no fault with a fine Hammers performance.
It probably makes us safe although counting chickens is always a bad idea.. Antonio made way for Haller, Mark Noble for Wilshere and Yarmolenko for Bowen as the Irons strolled to a fabulous three points.
We now sit in 16th position on equal points with Watford who came from behind to beat Newcastle but our goal difference is six, 12, 14 and 26 better than the clubs beneath us.
A great day, great performance and incredibly special for that £7 million man form five years ago – the magical Mikey!
It was our biggest away win since 2007.
Yep a great performance all round and of course by Mickey. .he was fantastic and deserves all the pludits he gets..brilliant ..Norwich looked a very very poor team resigned to the obvious fact and to be honest I really thought they would have given a better account of themselves but hey ho let’s go at Watford with the same mind set and I think that we are capable of overtaking Brighton in the final standings. .as the saying was points make prizes=£££per league postionCOYI
Such a shame Sully and gold felt the need to replace moyes with one of the two old geezers from the muppet show. Thankfully they seemed to have learnt from the Avram grant episode though and hats off to them they bought back our saviour, the moysiah. He’s really got them playing again. Please please sully and gold don’t even think about replacing moysie again next season. His signings souchek and Bowen have made a huge difference. These are players that work their nuts off for the team and these are the type of signings moysie wants to bring in. Happy days are here again.