West Ham hammered Celtic in their own backyard scoring six goalsto remain unbeaten pre-season!
The Hammers went one-nil down in the pre-season friendly with Celtic skipper Callum McGregor slotting one past Fabianksi due to an unfortunate mistake by Manual Lanzini.
Angelo Ogbonna went down injured after five minutes clutching his thigh and was immediately replaced by Issa Diop but hopefully, the change was precautionary. Both Michail Antonio and Jarrod Bowen were denied by terrific saves by Celtic stopper Vasilis Barkas.
Antonio looked very sharp and was too hot to handle scoring his first goal of the afternoon after just 23 minutes. Noble played the ball into a wide gap between the centre-backs and Mikey had time and space to collect, dribble past Barkas and slot into the net with his left foot.
Nine minutes later and Antonio scored his second with a second on 32 minutes with one-touch football from Lanzini and Benrahma which found Fornals who played the ball into space between the centre-backs.
Antonio raced onto it and Barkas had his positioning all wrong, allowing the new No9 to slot inside the left-hand post with his left foot.
It was Antonio’s pace that led to the Hammers third goal when he was brought down and skipper Mark Noble converted a straightforward spot kick.
Celtic came back into it in the second half after a mistake by Ryan Fredericks and Darren Randolph made it 3-2 but it was all one-way traffic after that.
A glorious West Ham performance, which could have had more goals in it…..
Not sure the ‘gloom & doom’ about West Ham’s Transfer activity have too much to complain about after this.
Can only hope for another striker to ease the burden on Mikey and a centre/left back to spell Cresswell.