Hammers kick off pre-season with decent win

Servette 0 Hammers 2

By Hughie Southon

Our Academy boys led the way as the Irons opened their pre-season campaign in Switzerland with goals from Aji Alese and Divin Mubama.

But Servette were no pushovers, hitting the woodwork on several occasions and always posing a threat,

The first goal came when the Servette keeper dropped a Lanzini free kick and the under 23 was presented with a simple tap in after 27 minutes.

Alese set the Hammers on their way

Mubama found the net early in the second half after his shot a minute earlier had been saved earlier with Benrahma then side footing wide from eight yards.

The youngster back heeled his effort into the net a minute later after  Benny made amends for the earlier error with a fine ball into the box.

The Swiss side certainly had their moments but with a near under 23 side on the pitch at the end we always looked relatively comfortable and indeed VERY FIT.

Conor Coventry was probably the stand out player over the 90 minutes showing good short and long passing whilst  young Ashby got forward well from right back.

Manager David Moyes will be more than happy with this as a starting point and it was particularly good that he gave the the youngsters every chance to show what they have in their lockers.