Jarrod Bowen might have scored a superb hat-trick for West Ham but it surely was the return of Lucas Paqueta which actually made them tick.
The Hammers cruised to a 4-2 victory over fellow London aspect Brentford to seal their first Premier League win since December.
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Bowen scored two targets within the opening seven minutes to kick off the proceedings, together with his third coming simply earlier than the hour mark.
It is the primary time 27-year-old has scored a hat-trick in his profession and he’s now sitting on 17 targets for the season in all competitions.
Though Bowen is clearly key to West Ham’s efforts in assault, one stat proves that Paqueta is simply as, if no more essential to the aspect.
West Ham have received 11 of the 19 Premier League video games he has began this season, a win share of 58 per cent.
As compared, they’ve didn’t win in all seven of the matches he has not began in, demonstrating how very important he’s to their success.
Paqueta performed his first match since getting back from a calf harm and David Moyes was fast to reward his affect of their much-needed win.
Chatting with talkSPORT, Moyes mentioned: “We have had him out since I believe early December or January at any time when it was, the primary FA Cup tie so we have actually missed him.
“His capability to make issues occur and do issues, he does quite a lot of issues for the group as effectively so actually essential.
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“I believed he performed effectively tonight as effectively however as you might see we had been working out of legs most likely after about 70 minutes, Lucas perhaps a wee bit earlier than that so he achieved an amazing job.”
West Ham received themselves right into a commanding lead with two quickfire Bowen targets, though Neal Maupay netted to make it 2-1 after simply 13 minutes.
Bowen’s third of the night time has taken him to 14 within the Premier League this season, the third highest tally together with Bournemouth’s Dominic Solanke and Aston Villa’s Ollie Watkins.
Emerson scored a screamer for West Ham’s fourth earlier than Yoane Wissa netted a late comfort to scale back the deficit for Brentford.
Moyes’ aspect have risen to eighth within the league, whereas the Bees have fallen to their tenth league defeat in 12 matches and 5 factors above the relegation zone.
