Boss David Moyes hailed a really good point earned by his West Ham United side after they held Premier League title challengers Liverpool to a 2-2 draw at London Stadium.
Jarrod Bowen marked his 200th Club appearance by notching his 16th Premier League goal of the season - equalling Paolo Di Canio’s record for the most by a Hammer in a single season - that broke the deadlock shortly before half-time.
A messy Alphonse Areola own-goal snatched the lead for Liverpool after Andy Robertson had levelled terms soon after the interval, but Michail Antonio rescued a share of the spoils with 13 minutes left on the clock.
The manner of his team’s response to last weekend’s disappointing defeat at Crystal Palace was among the most pleasing things in the view of Moyes, against a a side who sit just two points behind leaders Arsenal with three games to go.
European qualification remains a possibility for West Ham, who currently sit eighth in the standings, and the manager is hopeful of a positive end of the season after overseeing a display full of standout individual performances and team cohesion.
It’s a really good result for us.
The players were all shaken from last week, and desperate to get it out of their system, and I thought they did an amazing job today.
They’ve shown tremendous character to come back from being 2-1 down to a good Liverpool side, especially after what happened at Palace, and I have to give them plenty of praise.
I said to the players that we need to show some form of reaction today, and I think we did that.
It was tough because Liverpool are very good in possession, and you have to try and make it as tough for them as possible to score goals.
As long as we keep to within one goal of the opposition we’re always confident we can score, because of the attacking players we’ve got at our disposal, and we were able to do that today.
Having Jarrod [Bowen] back today was great for us.
He’s up to 16 goals in the Premier League now, and 20 in all competitions, which is incredible. There aren’t many West Ham players in history that can boast those kinds of numbers, so we have to recognise how special and important he is to us.
I think everyone’s aware of what he can do and the difference he makes for our team, and if we hadn’t had him things might have been different.
I think Mick [Antonio] is playing as well as he has for a long time, at the minute.
He’s scored in three games in a row now, which is really impressive. I think he probably looks as fit, and as lean as he has done in a long time, and it’s credit to him.
He scored a really good goal today, from a really good cross from Jarrod. We want his goals to keep coming now, and if we get consistent goals from our No9 it obviously makes a big difference.
There were lots of good performances today all over the pitch. We’ve had issues at centre-half because of injuries, and I think we’ve combatted that well and Angelo [Ogbonna] and Kurt [Zouma] deserve a pat on the back, too.
I think Liverpool were probably the better team, but we did the other side of football well.
We showed character and resilience, and we stuck at it. I think it was a bit like how Everton beat Liverpool in midweek - we only got a draw, but it’s still a good result.
Their goalkeeper made a few really good saves, and we could have had more than two goals. I was disappointed with how conceded the first goal, and the second one was unfortunate, but we fought back and got a point.
Jürgen Klopp has done an unbelievable job at Liverpool.
I won’t be too sorry to see him go from a results perspective, but I can’t fault his quality.
To manage Liverpool you have to be very good, and he has been over the years. I’d certainly say he’s up there with the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson, Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho.
