Bournemouth Joy After Seven-Goal Thriller

For West Ham, their poor all-round performance was summed up when goalkeeper Darren Randolph was named as the club’s official man of the match.

“I congratulate Bournemouth, they deserve it, they were good“. It’s very disappointing. The place was rocking at that point and we needed that next attempt on goal, or that next goal, to go on.

Led by a Callum Wilson hat-trick, the Cherries skipped away to a two-goal lead at Upton Park before the Hammers equalised, but Eddie Howe’s men did enough in the second half to land a memorable victory.

As Match Of The Day broadcast the chaos that was West Ham’s defence in the face of Bournemouth, the former manager could relax and enjoy the obvious implication that it wouldn’t have happened in his time.

Rooney, who had a goal disallowed for offside early, registered a shot on target for the first time this season but is still without a goal for United since April.

The 23-year-old striker volleyed home in the 11th minute for his first goal in the top flight. The left-back played a careless back pass into the path of Wilson who ruthlessly fired past Randolph.

Cresswell put his head in his hands, apologised on social media afterwards and hopefully he will have learned a lesson.

Tomkins, 26, started in West Ham’s 2-0 win at Arsenal on the opening weekend, but was omitted by coach Slaven Bilic in Premier League losses to Leicester City and Bournemouth.

“It was a bit sloppy on our behalf letting them back into the game at 2-0″, he told Cherries Player.

Angelo Ogbonna looked stuck in concrete for most of his 35 minutes, Pedro Obiang was hardly in the game, nor was Dimitri Payet, while the selection of Kevin Nolan ahead of Manuel Lanzini was a huge mistake.

“From a young age, all I’ve wanted to do is play in the Premier League and to get here now and get my first hat-trick is something you can never imagine”. “We simply need a better mentality”.

The 26-year-old took to Twitter to defend himself from what he called “an outrageous slur on my professionalism” after West Ham chairman David Sullivan raised questions about the striker’s fitness.

But the hosts came roaring back after the break, with Mark Noble’s 48th minute penalty and Cheikhou Kouyate’s close-range finish in the 53rd minute pulling the Hammers level. “That’s why I have to turn it around”.

Stick them in a treble – after all, we love an underdog, don’t we?

While Nicholas refused to blame Bilic for the defeat, it is hard to imagine that some of the criticism won’t be heading his way after a second successive home defeat. They also hold a 100% record at home against the newly promoted side.