Kouyate full of praise for Payet and ‘amazing’ fans
The midfielder got on the end of the playmaker’s brilliant free kick at the Emirates to score one of the goals that put Arsenal to the sword, and then said: “ The first game that he played here, we played together, he gave me the ball and I missed.
“The second one was against Norwich, I missed again, and he said it will be third time lucky. On Sunday, he gave me the third one and I scored, so he was right. He has extraordinary vision.”
Speaking to the official site at www.whufc.com, Kouyate added: “To think that was only his first game, away from home, against Arsenal, he has shown all his talent. He gave Arsenal’s defenders a tough time, I really hope he’s going to continue like that.
“The three thousand fans in the stands were fantastic. We heard them before the warm-up, at the start of the game, at the end of the game.”
Payet had commented the atmosphere was amazing, and Kouyate added: “Dimitri is right. He said to me, when we were playing the friendlies, ‘the supporters are already there’, and he asked me, ‘is it always like that here?’
“I told him, you’ve seen nothing yet, that’s just the start, but during the match, ‘they’ll be there for us throughout the game’. The supporters here are extraordinary.”