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Hammers shows Moyes’ confidence is well founded

Match verdict by Hughie Southon

Now that was far better!

Ok we had to wait until the second half for the Hammers to show that David Moyes confidence that we are getting there is well founded.

But tonight in that 45 minutes we started to make a very good Spurs team look extremely ordinary and really should have come away with three points.

We also had a glimpse of the club’s record signing Lucas Paqueta who genuinely has you believing that he could be the guy to provide the magic so badly missing for so long.

Then there was Declan and Tomas returning to their best whilst Mikey Antonio’s sensational assist for the goal and all round performance will most certainly keep the heat on Gianluca Scamacca who we understand took a knock in training.

Spurs remain unbeaten of course but the Hammers could so easily have beaten them in an, at times, dramatic second half as the fans turned the London Stadium into a king sized Upton Park .

We move on to Chelsea and hopefully Paqueta can provide a serious spark against a team most certainly not at their best.

I reckon he will and the sort of performance we saw over 45 minutes tonight repeated over 90 could easily be enough for the Hammers to collect three points.

 

About Hugh5outhon1895

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!" Follow on Twitter @hughsouthon

4 comments on “Hammers shows Moyes’ confidence is well founded

  1. For me, the turnaround was never in doubt, although having said that, my nerves are always jangling until we start putting the performances in.
    All of a sudden this team has options a plenty, and these quality options seem to be a big motivating factor for the players whose place in the team used to be virtually guaranteed.
    I can feel a spring returning to my step.
    Lingard didn’t make it off the bench tonight after Forest were put to the Haaland Sword in a 6-0 defeat against Citeh. As long as he gets paid, he’s happy I guess.

  2. I could not disagree more…..Tottenham are a bang average side they have 3 talented front men but the rest i would not give tuppence for…..defend deep to hit on the counter and no creativity sound familiar?…For a London derby especially this one our players again looked well below par and FFS how far off there players were we sitting? a good 5/10 yards letting them have the ball no closing down yet soon as we had the ball they were on us closing us down and the usual aimless punt upfield giving it away……our defending for there goal was an absolute joke how far did they run with that ball?know challenge till to late very poor……and one moment of inspiration from Antonio with that pass that got Soucek his goal cannot paper over the cracks for me…..we may have new players in but sadly its the same old tactics…We scored and sat back gave the initiative to the Spuds again let there nerves settle and no surprise it ended in a draw…they had possession but did little with it because they are bang average at best we had the chances but as ever never put them away but once again playing passively at home letting the opposition have the ball hoping we can catch them on the break is not working anymore Mr Moyes time to prove that you are not a one trick pony something which i doubt you can

  3. Don’t know what game Cleasm was at. For me we kept Spurs largely in their own half for last 20 mins and were unlucky not to win. I thought our energy levels were getting back to where we need to be. Good analysis on Match of Day last night. For continuing doubters worth a watch on catch up!

    • Totally agree budgie, feel good factor now back and can only get better. We can now replace a position with same or better options and is making the likes of Antonio re emerge. Pacqueta gave the team an enormous lift to which all the fans responded. I have to say the Spurs fans were incredibly quiet and only made a bit of noise when they scored. Coyis very upbeat

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