Sunday, January 14

Arnie and Lanzini hammer Huddersfield

Huddersfield Town 1 West Ham 4 (four)

A great result up in Yorkshire — it seems an age since West Ham tonked anyone. Admittedly the Terriers helped gift West Ham the opener with a misguided goalkeeping clearance from Lossi. But credit to Arnautovic and then Noble for closing down so quickly. We even saw a new Shiqiri-style folded arms celebration from Nobes. A needless rabona from Lanzini when he could have played in Arnautovic nearly saw a second. But it was level at the break after Lolley cut inside from the right and curled an unstoppable shot into the corner. 

For once West Ham scored immediately after the break, with Arnautovic gathering Kouyate's header and brilliantly flicking the ball round Smith before rifling home, followed by a dodgy dancing celebration. Some neat triangles followed by Arnie powering inside saw the Austrian release Lanzini for the third. While the fourth saw the incrasingly unplayable Arnautovic bamboozle his full back on the half way line and charge into the box, with a desperate tackle from the listing Schindler only setting up Lanzini for his second. Credit to Zabalata late on for a goal-saving tackle too. 

To think that at kick-off I thought it looked like a very defensive side with three holding midfielders. It's Moyes' 200th win the Premier League and he's got Arnautovic and Lanzini firing up front and has turned it round. We even go 11th… and more importantly have overtaken the likes of Huddersfield, Newcastle and Brighton. Oh what fun it is to see West Ham win away. Irons!

2 comments:

mj said...

Now to keep it real by beating Bournemouth next week - don't let any optimism creep it - you know what that will mean. Also to say goodbye to Shrewsbury, Tuesday. Good name for a song, that!!

Pete May said...

It's always most dangerous when we seem to be going well…