Massive West Ham On Stairway To 🔝
November 7, 2021 at 7:44 pm 1 comment
West Ham United showed that their place in the Premier League’s top four was fully warranted as they outmuscled Liverpool for a memorable 3-2 victory at a rocking London Stadium on Sunday. With this victory the Hammers leapfrogged the Reds in the PL table and are third now, level on points with Manchester City! “West Ham are massive, everywhere we go!”
(From The Telegraph) Victory for high-flying West Ham ended Liverpool’s 25-match unbeaten run in all competitions and lifted them above Juergen Klopp’s side into third place in the table.
An own goal by keeper Alisson gave West Ham a dream start, but Liverpool went in level at halftime thanks to a superb Trent Alexander-Arnold free kick.
Craig Dawson hit the bar for West Ham early in the second half as Liverpool wobbled at the back, before Pablo Fornals restored West Ham’s lead in the 66th minute when he was played through and his shot evaded Alisson.
Alisson was found wanting again eight minutes later when Kurt Zouma headed in West Ham’s third in the 74th minute.
The man who scored what proved to be the match-winning goal, declared after the match that West Ham were like one big “family”. Now it’s five years that this family has moved to the new London Stadium, but during these five years now in Stratford, rarely has a win been more ecstatically celebrated.
Though there was a late lifeline for Liverpool when Divock Origi made it 3-2 with a shot on the turn in the 82nd minute, but the hosts clung on for a memorable victory and could rightly celebrate that they have shown relentless consistency in seven games within three weeks (since the last international break) with six wins and one draw.
West Ham boss David Moyes, speaking to Sky Sports:
“It is a brilliant victory against a really good team. We played Thursday night too and to put in a performance with the energy to hang in at the end is great for the players. At the moment I’ve got really good players who play with incredible character.”
“We are still growing the seeds a little bit – but I think we are there [top three] on merit,” Moyes said. “I wanted to challenge whoever the teams will be in the top four. I hope one will be us. I’m hugely proud of the players. These players were close to relegation, now we’re pushing for Europe.”
By Europe, Moyes meant the Champions League, The Telegraph writes, and it was further to his and the players’ credit that this performance followed Thursday’s 2-2 draw against Genk.
It is now four league wins in a row for Moyes’ side and with the Hammers also in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals and the knockout phases of the Europa League, fans can rightly dream of more magical moments to come this season, BBC said in their match report. And that’s the new West Ham Way of David Moyes winning team (according to The Times):
Ultimately, you see that West Ham players reflect their manager, Moyes, a hard-working, grounded football man. These are Moyes’ men, a team united, following their manager’s instructions perfectly. Moyes, who celebrated his 1,000th game as a manager on Thursday, was managing against Liverpool for the 36th time and this was only his sixth win, and it felt so sweet that he celebrated Zouma’s goal with a jig on the touchline. It was hardly the Dashing White Sergeant but his joy and pride were understandable. He certainly had Liverpool reeling. Moyes and his staff drill the players extensively on set-pieces and two of their goals came from corners. His tactics of a low block and countering also paid off.
There are no egos in claret and blue, just good characters. Mark Noble, the club captain, embodies that. So does the current team captain, Rice, an established England international who would walk into any midfield in the country, yet is as down to earth as they come.
Where some players elsewhere copy-and-paste club-approved messages on social media, Rice types out his own heartfelt, emoji-filled posts, including a celebratory picture of him and a beaming Tomas Soucek, his midfield accomplice, after this famous win.
Goals: http://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2021/november/07-november/goals-west-ham-united-3-2-liverpool
Extended highlights: Extended Highlights: West Ham United 3-2 Liverpool | West Ham United (whufc.com)
Five Things We Loved About the Liverpool Win (WHUFC): Five things we loved about West Ham United’s Premier League win over Liverpool | West Ham United (whufc.com)
Celebration: https://twitter.com/westham/status/1457475448896516096?s=21
“West Ham are massive, everywhere we go”: Derek Richter âš’ auf Twitter
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EXTRA TIME 
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RapidHammer | November 8, 2021 at 5:07 pm
The London Stadium atmosphere was massive in this game:
Anyone within the vicinity of London Stadium on Sunday evening was left in no doubt about one thing – West Ham United are massive.
From well before kick-off until long after the final whistle, strains of Bubbles, Everywhere We Go and a setlist of other popular chants were being sung loud and proud by the Claret and Blue Army.
The atmosphere in and around the Hammers’ iconic home was up there with the best it has been in the five-plus years since the Club moved in.
Tens of thousands of West Ham supporters headed to the match full of hope and expectation that their in-form team could get one over another of the Premier League’s top sides.
And, through a combination of all the qualities that have turned the Irons into one of those sides themselves, their team did just that.
Each goal was met with a resounding roar of celebration, while there was seldom a moment when the noise levels dropped below ear-piercing.
On another day to remember at London Stadium, the 60,000 capacity crowd yet again played their full part in it.