'To do it two years in a row is SPECIAL!' | David Moyes | West Ham 4-1 Gent (Agg 5-2)

Jamie, do you want to putt as well as those returning to golf? Yeah, oh, I loved it. There are those iconic goals that are just played over and over again and they're in school, so yes, yes, there are certainly people who could know better. than me, but it was a fabulous individual goal, so Royal Rovers type, go, you know, you dribble and win one day and you do it again, you go on and score, so it was like that, hey, he's a player of great skill and uh , you know, that goal just summed them up tonight.

I brought this club to consecutive seasons. I'm smiling saying that, by the way, I'm a big football man. I watch football. I always have a normal life and I don't know if I could remember when West Ham maybe had consecutive semi-finals of European football, maybe half, maybe someone will correct me and tell me the worst moments, but I tell myself that they are two semi-finals of a European competition. Big credit to the players, they have done a brilliant job, not only because we won the group last year, but we also won the group this year. You know, we went to the quarterfinals against big teams and tonight I have to say it again, we really did it.

It was difficult for us in both games at Angelo, we won quite comfortably, but it wasn't to be. I must say I didn't feel comfortable because they made it difficult for us, well no no but Anyway, if MD didn't think he could do that then you are completely naive and not looking closely enough. If that's the case, he's a player and that's why we value him so much and still. young man, you know you're using a lot of things, you know he's going to play differently and at some points in his career, but right now he's got so many parts to his game and he doesn't always show them partly because he's he, he could, he's got a good personality, but he could show his personality even more and if he does, you'll see a lot more aspects of his game that a lot of people probably think don't exist.

But let me tell you, there are huge things. I can see it when he comes back. He is growing faster but he also has the opportunity to work alongside the quality of players who have gained a great coaching staff in England. making a deck about the world is good and I hope and I think West Ham have benefited, you know, in recent

years

, with Dex's experience for England, go into every game believing that you know we will win, believe in it. Not us, we'll play well and he'll play well, so there's a lot of things that are really good for Andy, when it all came together tonight, how much can you learn from that the rest of the season? right, you know the fans are interested, the players were playing very well.

I think if you look back, what probably brought this club together more than the end was when we qualified for Europe in the first place a couple of

years

ago. We finished sixth and then we went on the journey and enjoyed that kind of journey together which was brilliant until the semi-final against Frankfurt last year and I think it's the same. I think this year this competition has kept us positive. It kept everyone going when we're obviously in the middle of a tough season for us, but I have to say when we needed it, we got the results out and we got another one out tonight, man, well, never, yeah, never.

We are, I think we were, I would never be so presumptuous, but Emily, who knows a lot about this, the last I'll look they were third in the Dutch league, just behind Ajax and I think PSV, their team for young players, is their The model is to develop young players and they have some really excellent talent in their ranks, a lot of good young players and the odd experienced player here are also there, so I think when you have momentum when you're starting out. a division, so that's where I would say they're showing they've shown good consistent fun for most of the year uh I wasn't I wasn't that happy because I thought we played.

Well I thought we were still the better team but I was disappointed that we had gone away and we hadn't had enough chances to really want the second half and I was even more upset at the end of the game because we missed two in the first few minutes, no we got a penalty kick and then later I thought we abused the opportunities to score more and I don't know, I haven't seen the return of Jared, who was cut. I think someone felt it should have been a goal, but I haven't had a chance to see it yet.

John, he hasn't been out this season, yeah, yeah, well, they bet on Jordan. I'm more upset because we didn't score. the others, I thought, I thought no one had missed it, no, Thomas, I thought you like Mick just before we got the penalty and then obviously it took Declan to go through to make it 3-1 and actually after. When we advanced I thought we had two or three great opportunities and I thought we abused the opportunity to finish or get a good enough shot, eh, but we were going to score four goals in each game. We haven't done it very often this season, so I'm excited, but what do you do when you're a coach?

You're always looking for more, you always want to see people take advantage of their opportunities to score. Lucas catcher is the first choice to take it, no, they probably would have told me that, so they must have had a good discussion because they scored, you know what I mean, jonty, um, I don't really get a chance to say it because the Most media outlets are doing it. most of the media stuff, but it seemed like he took a couple of hits from behind in the first half, but then he started from school in a really good environment, so I hope that gives him a lot of confidence as well.

I haven't scored the goals until yes, yes. I thought he did very well against Arsenal and I felt that tonight if the majority of the players could continue the level, as we are in this against Arsenal, it would give us a great chance to win. People who have watched us a lot have tended to change more players in the games in Europe, but I felt like momentum was building from the game and I wanted to try to keep it going and obviously I probably only had a couple of hours beforehand to get back into it and Not much longer before my next game and I'm getting ready to play again.

I thought it was going to go away because there is a trend right now that the person is not taking it. he's walking away with a ball, so I didn't panic, I didn't worry, but I have to say that I saw Lucas suffer pain in cooking training and he has a style that year is interesting. yeah, with nerves, you're the coach too, that's for sure, and obviously because we had missed a couple of what I thought were really big chances just before that, it became vital that we got that penalty or scored the penalty that we should have. say Jacob's last one, one more from you, this one, yeah, I hope, I hope we can deal with this a little better, we'd probably do fine, I mean, if we're being fair, we have been when you look back, we're putting a Very good introduction, Frank for the team, since then we haven't won the Champions League etc so I think we shouldn't underestimate the quality of the team we played, but I think there were things in the game, no, we talked, we talked quite a bit about the players.

The handling of this was emotions, you know how we handle it, you know, we're not quite sure what the officiating levels are going to be in different games. I actually thought tonight the refereeing levels were very good, higher than then, maybe let's say we had in the game again for example, so you're never sure what refereeing levels you're going to have and it's the kind of things that we need to find a way to understand and that was something important that we learned, but also If you want to remember the first match here, I think we are going to go down after a minute here against eintrap Frankfurt and we were almost chasing the match from the minute one, so I hope we can, it will help us experience it, uh and uh, the first one.

What we have to do is try to win both matches in my class one. So have they already reiterated to the players that the job is not done yet in the Premier League and that they cannot do as well as this result is what they can do? I won't live off it for a long time, no, but if you don't mind, we could enjoy it even if it's just for a nerd before we start thinking about it again, you know, yeah, so we're there, but obviously we know that we make. I have always said that the most important thing will always be the Premier League, thank you all, applause, thank you foreigner.