West Ham, Middlesbrough earn 1st wins in Premier League

Shortly afterwards, the disappointed Valencia trudged off as Jonathan Calleri stepped from the bench in an effort to maintain some home momentum given the men from the south coast now looked a different side to the one that had departed at the break.

“In the week, giving away a penalty and then getting taken off straight away, you just can’t let it affect you and [you have to] move on, and luckily I did today and got the victor here”.

West Ham were forced to reduce the capacity of the stadium from 60,000 to 57,000 for the match against Bournemouth.

It consigned Bournemouth to back-to-back defeats in their first two Premier League matches (and nearly a year to the day after they came to Upton Park and won 4-3 with a Callum Wilson hat-trick) and changed the dynamic for West Ham who are now up and running.

Speaking about Carroll, Bilic bemoaned: “I will sign now the contract if his injury is four weeks or six weeks and, after that, good until the end of the season”.

“Rule number one if you want to stand any chance is you have to be humble and sacrifice for the team, like he did previous year”.

A cavernous arena with a large running track separating the crowd from the pitch, the stadium doesn’t lend itself to the kind of intimate atmosphere that made Upton Park such a daunting place to visit.

“I don’t feel well” Manchester United legend Denis Law, 76, rushed to hospital after collapse at airport on his way to… So it’s up to us. “As long as we are winning, competing for something and they are happy, we are going to pack this stadium”.

The breakthrough in part stemmed from the space created by the dismissal of Bournemouth’s influential midfielder Harry Arter seven minutes earlier for a second bookable offence after bringing down Cheikhou Kouyate.

Hammers defender, Sam Byram, hacked off the line from Steve Cook, while Adam Smith tested Adrian from distance as Bournemouth finally emerged from their defensive shell and offered the first viable attempts of the second period.

“That’s the one that has to disappoint, the first booking”.

“We know the rules, dissent will be yellow cards and that’s the one that burns”.

“So if you’re talking about creativity then we are okay, because nobody has five players like that”.