High energy Hammers crush Huddersfield

Irons 2 Huddersfield 0

Antonio – another man of match performance

It wasn’t perfect but it was a million miles better as the Hammers jumped off the bottom of the table with their first win of the season.

Truth is the Hammers battered Huddersfield but it took the flukiest goal in the world to break the deadlock when Obiang’s shot took a huge deflection off Mathias Jorgensen. from outside the area.

That was in the 72nd minute and when Ayew added the second when he stabbed home Aaron Cresswell’s corner four minutes later.

Adopting a high pressing game, the Irons had seen a Carroll cross come shot go inches wide beating everybody on the way before Chicharito hit the crossbar, Collins saw a header held on the line and Kouyate completely miskicked from close in.

But in the end it all came right with the team finally getting everything they deserved on a night when the fans turned on the style big time.

Andy Carroll was a constant menace, Cresswell is coming back to his best, Reid was imperious at the back but the man of the match was Michail Antonio who was an awesome sight as he ran the Terriers  ragged.

Town boss David Wagner admitted afterwards his team was second best “and not good enough” and looked like a nervous promotion team.

What he didn’t say was that the Hammers made them look poor and it was so good to see our lads playing a high pressing game rather than the counter productive counter attacking team.

The side looked entirely comfortable in the stadium and Slaven Bilic admitted: “It will never be Upton Park but more and more it feels like home.”

After the three defeats and all the pressure heaped on Bilic and the boys over the last couple of weeks this was a tremendous victory and will give everybody precisely the confidence shot they need.