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Moyes recalls Wolves win and decided to change things

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David Moyes has revealed how he danced around his living room while in isolation as the hammers beat Wolves 4-0 at the London Stadium.

But he has added that it was also the game when he realised he and the squad were going to have to do things differently.

Having goyt off to defeats by Arsenal and Newcastle the team came very good against Wolves and continued the form with a massive win at Leicester City.

And peaking to reporters the manager said: “Pearcey was on the phone , my telly had about a one minute lag before it was coming in, and I’d been phoning through.

The next minute, the phone was ringing and I’m saying “what is it?”, and he said, “just scored”. It was great, I could watch the telly knowing that you were waiting on the goal coming in.

It was a great moment, that, knowing that there was a goal coming. It was great at that time, the staff done a brilliant job and carried it off brilliantly well.

When we beat Wolves and we beat Leicester,  they were two enormous victories for us at that time and not only that, we won quite well, we had results, good goals which have our goal difference a good starting point as well.”

Nut he explained: In my head we felt that we were gonna have to do things differently. We started against Newcastle with four at the back, and Arsenal at that time in the season we’re playing a bit with five at the back, they were a big threat the way they were playing,

So we made a decision that I would do that and it didn’t get the result but we were very close. So Wolves played that similar system, we thought it would be the right way to play.

And we played with that system and it got really good results. So that was it, it gave us a kick on and give us a lift at that start season, and as you well know we’ve been on a pretty good run since then.

Yeah we’ve lost some games but we’ve been pretty much consistent since that point really.

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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!"

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5 comments

  • Good Ole Daze says:

    I hope we play with a 5 at the back tonight again Wolves – it’s worked before. I would like to see a return for Balbuena as well as he adds the calmness under pressure that Diop has yet to develop. My back 3 would be Dawson, Balbuena and Diop with Coufal and Cresswell as wingbacks. Alves to be on the bench for cover with Cresswell another option to drop back into the 3 if needed. I hope Balbuena stays with us next season. So glad to see the international yawnfest break behind us and that our players returned safely. I’ll go for a very optimistic 2-0 win for us tonight. COYI.

    • Good Ole Daze says:

      ” So glad to see the international yawnfest break behind us and that our players returned safely …” Spoke too soon, didn’t I?

      Best wishes to Declan for a full recovery. I’ll also revise my predictions for tonght and the rest of the season … top 9 will now be a good finish. Hope Moyes is adventurous tonight and doesn’t start with Noble … COYI

    • Steve says:

      Hi not trying to be clever but if you are going to write serious comments about the hammer’s please check your spelling and grammar before posting thank you.

      • We do around 20 stories a day on occasions and rarely less than 10. There will be errors and please remember you pay for nothing so criticism is more a lack of respect than advice to be taken

  • West Ham Fan No 32 says:

    Hopefully we do play 5 at the back, Diop is a liability positionally so we need the extra cover, Hugh or Sean is there any truth in the rumour that Rice has injured his MCL and is out ?

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