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Yarmo ready to go up a level

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Bang-in-form Andriy Yarmolenko is ready to dish out the treatment again tomorrow night as the Hammers face their first local derby of the season!

Goals in successive games and a couple of top performances has shown the Ukranian in what many would thing was his best form but he reckons there is better to come.

After a year off through injury to return with such such sparkling displays has given him and everybody else an enormous boost as the team has shown some of it’s best football in a long time.

His emergence as a major force has even managed to push the absence of Michail Antonio to the back of many minds and he is showing that maybe he could even become an emergency central striker should the need ever arise.

And ahead of the Palace’s visit to London Stadium he was ready to  delivered an ominous warning to upcoming opposition – he ‘s ready to go up a level.

Speaking at https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2019/october/04-october/andriy-yarmolenko-my-best-still-come he said:  “Of course right now I feel really good, whereas before, I was having to work really hard, every day, every month [to recover].

“I am happy because I love this game. Football is really important in my life, and right now I am really enjoying my time at this club.

“I’m happiest when I’m playing my best football. Of course, it’s not my hundred per cent [right now], but I feel it’s coming.”
Yarmolenko's goal against Manchester United

“For us it’s just important to move from one game to another. He [Pellegrini] is a good coach. He always talks with us, and he wants us to play attacking football, technical football. 

“Of course now we are fifth, and playing well, but the league only started a few weeks ago. We must think about our game, play our best football, and we will see what happens in the end.

Every home game we feel the fans behind us. Our fans are great, and I’m really excited to play at London Stadium.

“Every home game we feel the fans behind us,” he said. “Our fans are great, and I’m really excited to play at London Stadium. Of course in the next game against Crystal Palace, we play at home.

“We must play with aggression, we must show our best football as against Manchester United – and hopefully, we will win.”

Read more at https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2019/october/04-october/andriy-yarmolenko-my-best-still-come#TX6H97LpAJvI7kwQ.99

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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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