West Ham United 3, Cardiff City 1
London Stadium, London
For Mauricio Pellegrini and his Irons, suddenly playing as the competitive squad many envisioned it since the beginning of this edition of Premiership, with two back-to-back wins we started to see a contender.
All of a sudden in these two wins the Academy of Football has seen a couple of its players coming out of their scoring droughts, with last week double from Mexican international Chicharito, this time it was Lucas Perez turn.
For the Spaniard delivering with a double that in the end became the difference maker in the game after his substitution early in the first half when the Irons top playmaker Marko Arnatouvic came out with an injury.
As manager Pellegrini putting a very offensive formation with Marko and Chicharito after his last week heroics, once again his formula worked wonders with this duo that in the end made a living hell out of the Bluebirds defense.
After all these two squads last weekend they were on a momentum after winning their respective matches and for the Welsh side emerging as a winner and out of the relegation spots, today a win would become wondrous.
With a doubtful call on penalty in favor of the visitors, for City midfielder Joe Ralls taking care of the penal but I did not count on Lukasz Fabiansky taking care of the shoot and stopping it cold and denying an early CCFC score.
As this match took a one sided approach with the Hammers playing a dominant football all game long that in the end netted them a valuable win as well moving up the standings, moving up to 12th place and with 18 points.
Once again Robert Snodgrass and Arthur Masuaku became fundamental in this squad win with a couple of assists both to the man of the match Lucas Perez playing like possessed and scoring on the 49’ minute and later in the 54’.
Still there was to be another score from the Hammers Michail Antonio in the 61’ with Snodgrass assistance, scoring the go ahead and cushion goal in what seemed a valuable win for the locals that displayed a top-notch football at home.
Dominating this match in its entirety the Hammers had total control of the Bluebirds from start to finish with a whopping 61% control of the ball and seventeen shots at goal, and eleven at target.
In the end hail to a heroic Cardiff City backfield lucky of not getting a rout in London Stadium from an inspired Academy of Football looking to level their campaign and make a dash to the top six spots in the overall table.
Unfortunately, the clean sheet was lost on injury time with a lone CCFC goal from Josh Murphy coming as a substitute in the 64’ minute for Joe Ralls and with no time to mount a comeback.
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