Moyes: “We are the new West Ham”

David Moyes handed out his verdict on today’s game and the current Irons team by declaring: “We are not the old West Ham anymore.”

The 1-0 win over Burnley saw the team gain it’s fourth clean sheet on the bounce – in West Ham terms a unique situation and one of which the manager and his backroom staff can be entirely proud.

The new Hammers are defensively as strong and well organised as we have ever seen with Craig Dawson and Angelo Ogbonna calling the shots in the middle of teh back four

The Irons now remain remain unbeaten in five games since before Christmas in all competitions thanks to Michail Antonio’s early goal and a superb defensive display.

Now we need to go again in just three nights time when former boss Sam Allardyce comes to mix it with one of his big mates in the game – Moyes.

BFS grabbed a priceless win over Wolves in teh Black Country derby today and confidence will have been boosted for Tuesday’s game.

Moyes’ men are now up to eighth in the table and just three points off the top four ahead of Tuesday’s home game with West Bromwich Albion.

And speaking to West Ham TV the manager said: “We’re not the old West Ham any more, we’re the new West Ham and we’re going to try to become even better.

There’s so much more that we can do, and that we’d like to do, and hopefully we can show it.

It needs time and there will be periods when it’s not going so well. There’ll be periods when it is, but we’re certainly not settling for where we are.

We’re already told the players to get their heads on Tuesday night because we need another good performance.

Burnley have been tough for me wherever I’ve been and here we’ve had some poor days against them for different reasons, not just the football.

It was well-earned and hard-earned for the result today, because we needed some players to step up really well.

Angelo Ogbonna and Craig Dawson both played very, very well today.