David Moyes said his gamers “must keep stepping up” after West Ham ended the precise week with a critical four-zero victory at Bournemouth to boost their survival probabilities.
Moyes’s facet fought lower back from down to attract with Arsenal, the Premier League leaders, final Sunday and observed it up with a four-1 win against Gent on Thursday to e book their spot inside the Europa Conference League semi-finals.
Relegation has remained a wonderful possibility, though, however they eased the ones issues with a medical show in which first-1/2 goals by way of Michail Antonio, Lucas Paquetá and Declan Rice positioned them on top of things. Pablo Fornals, on as an alternative, introduced a fourth midway through the second 1/2 to help West Ham to move up to 13th and 6 factors clear of the bottom three.Despite their Thursday exploits, Moyes made most effective two adjustments at the Vitality Stadium and one changed into to don’t forget his first-choice goalkeeper, Lukasz Fabianski. It supposed Antonio got some other possibility to steer the line and he rewarded his supervisor’s religion with a 5th-minute opener.
For Bournemouth it changed into all too easy, with Aaron Cresswell’s close to‑publish corner powered home through the unmarked Antonio for his 12th aim of the season (although handiest his fourth inside the league). The traffic doubled their advantage 8 minutes later and, once more, it should have frustrated Gary O’Neil, the Bournemouth manager.
Vladimir Coufal gained possession from Marcus Tavernier and controlled Jarrod Bowen’s pass earlier than his looping cross was headed in at the back put up by means of Paquetá, who without difficulty outjumped Jack Stephens. It endured Paquetá’s encouraging shape because the World Cup spoil and subsidized up his goalscoring display within the Hammers’ triumph ultimate Thursday.
West Ham’s visiting guide had been taking part in their journey to the south coast and shortly making a song approximately rivals Tottenham, who were five-0 down at Newcastle internal 21 mins. Bournemouth had been now not organized to throw within the towel, but, and Chris Mepham tested Fabianski with a header moments later.Jefferson Lerma turned into subsequent to try his success and Fabianski became once more identical to it, but his nice prevent became to come back. Dominic Solanke muscled his manner past Nayef Aguerd and raced into the area however Fabianski stored properly with his toes to hold West Ham’s two-intention lead after half of an hour.
Having withstood Bournemouth’s fightback, Moyes’s crew then furnished a sucker punch two mins before half of-time via their midfield talisman. Another Cresswell corner brought on problems and, at the same time as it become cleared to the again submit, Rice changed into first to the free ball and available to drill domestic through a deflection to make it returned-to-again dreams this week. The West Ham captain turned into serenaded by way of the away fans quickly afterwards, with chants urging him to stay amid communicate his future ought to lie away from the London Stadium.
O’Neil spoke back with the Wales ahead Kieffer Moore added in vicinity of Joe Rothwell at half of-time, but it failed to have the favored impact. A triple substitution followed on the hour for Bournemouth with Dango Ouattara, the stoppage-time hero at Spurs closing weekend, delivered on however, at the same time as he to start with prompted issues, West Ham were quickly celebrating a fourth goal.Bowen did nicely down the right and, while his cross became slightly in the back of Fornals, the bogus controlled to back-heel into the a long way nook to make it four-0 after 72 minutes. Maxwel Cornet had a stoppage-time effort dominated out for offside and the West Ham fans completed the sport nevertheless chanting for Rice to stay one more 12 months, with this win at least going a protracted manner to confirming their area within the Premier League next season.