Konstantinos Mavropanos described West Ham’s 4-0 win over Wolves because the “good efficiency” as they eased their relegation fears in model on the London Stadium.
Mavropanos and Valentin Castellanos each scored twice on Friday, shifting the Hammers out of the Premier League backside three, and dropping rivals Tottenham under them.
A nervy first half ended with Mavropanos nodding Jarrod Bowen’s nook previous Jose Sa earlier than Castellanos poked into the online after the break following Pablo’s intelligent flick.
The consequence was put past doubt lower than two minutes later by Castellanos, with Mavropanos sealing the win seven minutes from time with an acrobatic end from shut vary.
Mavropanos now has three targets in his final three Premier League appearances for West Ham. He had solely scored one objective in his first 81 video games within the competitors for the Hammers and former membership Arsenal mixed.
However, extra importantly, West Ham’s greatest Premier League victory since beating Bournemouth 4-0 in April 2023 got here at an important time of their marketing campaign.
“These sorts of wins give us an enormous enhance for the remainder of the season as a result of we’ve been working actually arduous,” Mavropanos advised Sky Sports activities.
“We’ve bought some actually good outcomes prior to now video games and at this time once more we noticed an important effort by our followers at residence, a clear sheet. I believe it was an ideal efficiency.
“We stated that we’ve to remain calm all through the sport as a result of Wolves have some good gamers.
“We caught collectively and scored the primary objective and within the second half we noticed extra of our work, and we scored extra targets.”
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The consequence ensures West Ham will finish the evening exterior the relegation zone for simply the second time in 2026, together with 14 March, whereas piling the strain on Spurs, who face Sunderland on Sunday in Roberto De Zerbi’s first sport in cost.
And Nuno Espirito Santo’s aspect are hitting type on the proper time. They’ve received 5 of their final 11 Premier League matches (D3 L3).
Since, and together with, the primary sport on this run towards Spurs on January 17, solely Manchester United (23) and Arsenal (21) have received extra factors than the Hammers (18).
West Ham had been deserving of their win too, having registered an anticipated targets (xG) complete of 1.68 from their 18 pictures, seven of which had been on the right track, in comparison with Wolves’ measly tally of 0.61 from their 14 makes an attempt.
Forward of the remainder of the weekend’s motion, the place Nottingham Forest face Aston Villa and Leeds United journey to Manchester United on Monday, the Opta supercomputer has assigned West Ham a 54.7% likelihood of avoiding relegation, although Nuno didn’t wish to get too carried away.
“We spoke after the sport and the best way we did it tonight proved to ourselves that we can not quit,” Nuno added. That was the workforce spirit from the start.
“By no means quit, we’re within the battle. I realise we’ve quite a lot of work to do but. We made an enormous step at this time, vital for us, however nothing has modified.”
