David Moyes was a happy manager after marking his 900th league game in the dugout with a victory.
The Scot’s West Ham United side were too strong and too savvy for newly-promoted Sheffield United, scoring a fairly comfortable 2-0 Premier League victory at London Stadium.
Jarrod Bowen and Tomáš Souček got the goals, with both of them coming in the first half, as the Hammers bounced back after consecutive top-flight defeats to score a fourth win in their opening seven matches and move onto 13 points.
The success extended Moyes’ perfect record against Sheffield United to eight wins out of eight, and marked West Ham’s tenth consecutive victory over opponents kicking-off against them bottom of the Premier League table.
While his team did concede chances to Paul Heckingbottom’s Blades, the hosts did have 20 goal attempts themselves, including nine on target, and could have won by a wider margin.
As it was, a first clean sheet of the Premier League season, on the back of one in a midweek Carabao Cup victory at Lincoln City, saw the Irons maintain seventh place in the table and reach 13 points a full five games faster than they did last season.
It was a good win. I’m really pleased.
It was a day when some people were expecting an easy game, but as a manager I’ve never found an easy game, that’s for sure.
I think if anybody looks at the result they’ll say it was a great result for West Ham, whether it was 2-0 or more.
If you look at the results in the Premier League today, there are no guarantees. It’s a strange league and we did a really good job to get a good victory.
I was pleased with the way we started the game and we could have been four or five up at half-time.
We missed a couple of chances and we had a couple of corners we looked very close to getting on the end of.
There were things we liked in the first half with the chances we made, but in the second half we looked as if we just ran out of energy.
Maybe the midweek League Cup game took its toll, not just generally on all the players, but particularly on some of them.
A clean sheet was a huge positive.
I get told by the press men that we haven’t had a clean sheet yet, so it was a positive that we got one today and got the three points.
If we’d won 1-0 I’d have been thrilled, so let’s not get carried away like everyone else is trying to do and saying we should be winning these games as lot more easily.
