West Ham United’s development squad travel to Exeter tomorrow evening (Wed) for their final group stage match of the Leasing.com Trophy.

Exeter have won their two opening games against Cheltenham and Newport, whilst West Ham’s win against the latter means they are tied on points with the former, going into the final round of games.

Dmitri Halajko is insisting the League side will meet a Hammers outfit ready to attack them – a policy which has taken the Development squad to the top of Premier League 2 Division 2 unbeaten.

He said: “I think what we’ve shown in all our cup games is that we really go for it. We’ve played exciting, attacking football in all of the games, and we’ve been really good going forward.

“We’ve gone for the win – we haven’t been cautious or cagey, and we haven’t waited for the other team to make mistakes. We’ve tried to go on the attack and try to win the game from the first minute.

“We won’t change that against Exeter. We want to be a team that plays good and attacking football, and that’s what we’ll do.”

The young Hammers in fact now have a double in view with the championship and Leasing.com Trophy and such has been their brand of football that one or the other or both would be a just reward.

Nathan Holland and Tony Scully have been key men alonog with Joe Powell in the middle of the park and a top display tomorrow would surely put Nathan in the frame  for a first team spot against Spurs.

The first team may be deep in the doldrums but the excitement being generated by the Under 23s is really something to enjoy this season

Halajko added: “In younger age groups inconsistency can come and go, but now these lads are starting to mature, they’re starting to get to the age now where they need to churn out experienced performances and do it week after week after week. So far, they’ve done that brilliantly, so we’ll try and sustain it for as long as we can.”