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.