West Ham United manager David Moyes heaped praise on his counterpart Erik ten Hag and explained what they have to do to win this game.
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West Ham United will hope to be at their best when Manchester United visit town for an important Premier League contest on Sunday. The Hammers are still very much in the relegation battle and will be keen to move as far away as possible from the bottom three places. However, they are in the middle of a difficult run of games, which will continue on Sunday with Erik ten Hag’s side traveling to London. The game is important for both sides, since United also need the three points to maintain their top four charge.
Ahead of the match, West Ham United manager David Moyes heaped praise on his counterpart Erik ten Hag and explained what they have to do to win this game. “You learn a lot when you watch all the good teams play. Manchester United are a really good team with terrific players. The manager [Erik ten Hag] has done a brilliant job with them this year, so overall they’ve got a good side. We had to play one of the best teams a few weeks ago in Arsenal [and got a result]. Now we’ve got to play another of the best teams in the Premier League in Manchester United, so we’ll have to play very well,” he was quoted as saying by the club’s website in a press conference.
“I’m looking forward to it, we need to play at our best. If we play at our best we’ll give them a really good game and if we get the crowd behind us the way they did against Arsenal, it’ll give us a great opportunity of getting a result. Erik ten Hag has approached the job at Manchester United in a really good way. He’s had a good response and he’s getting Manchester United much closer to the places that they want to be.”
Earlier in the season, a lone goal by Marcus Rashford proved to be the difference, as Manchester United defeated West Ham 1-0 in the Premier League. Moyes believes that they could have got more from that game. “We felt we could have got more when we played Manchester United earlier this season and there have been a few games where we could say the same thing,” he added.
“We did a lot of good things at Old Trafford but we didn’t come away with the results and if you look at recent seasons you think back to when Jesse Lingard scored a winner for them and I brought on Mark Noble in the 91st minute and he missed a penalty for an equaliser. A few of the games against Manchester United have been pretty close, so hopefully we can give them a good game and obviously it’s really important.”
Moyes then confidently stated that he reckons the team will survive the relegation battle. “We’re very confident that we can stay in the Premier League. If we play to our best we’ll give any team a really good game, so I’m hoping that we play to our best and if we do we’ll certainly get the extra points that we probably need to do at this present time,” he explained.
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