Tomas Soucek obviously believes in the power of positive thinking after the defeat by Manchester United.
The Czech has been outstanding all season and scored what looked likely to be another hugely valuable goal until the game was hit by a controversial equaliser and a rapid fire goal scoring last period.
His goal was the result of carefully planned training ground routine but sadly wasn’t enough to give us our fourth win on the trot which would have been the first in front of the fans.
The strike saw Declan Rice riunning to the near post and flicking om Aaron Cresswell’s corner for Tomas himself to attack the far post where he of course supplied the finish.
He explained: “On Friday, we did a few corners and throw-ins and many set pieces and we knew that Dec would go to the first post and I would go to the second post, so it was like the training from Rush Green and it was a nice goal.
“In my former team I scored many goals and I hope I score many goals here as well, so hopefully in the future I will, but conceding three goals is too much at home.”
“We are disappointed because I think we should win because the first half was very good from us and we created many chances and we should have scored a second goal and made it 2-0, but in the second half, they deserved some points and they won.
“I think that Champions League teams like Manchester United showed us that we needed to score some goals from the many chances we had because they answered by creating chances too and scoring goals.
“I think we played really well [in the first half]. When I compared it with the last game against Aston Villa, we played much worse than today but we took three points, while today we took zero points, so it’s a bad feeling for us.
“But it is also good for the next game for our confidence and spirit that we showed we can beat a team like Manchester United, so I hope that this game will give us much more confidence on the pitch.”
Souček was delighted with the positive impact made by the 2,000 West Ham fans who returned to London Stadium after a 280-day absence and roared their team on from well before kick-off until the final whistle.
He said: “They were incredible from the start, from the warm-up and when we went to go to the pitch out of the tunnel it was nice,” he observed.
“It was only 2,000 supporters but it was incredible for us. I had my family here as well, so it was nice for me and for everyone and I hope the fans will increase in the next games.