Moyes praises fans as West Ham play draw with Leicester
LONDON: David Moyes saw West Ham secure a irst point of his reign as the Premier League strugglers’ manager in a 1-1 draw at home to Leicester City on Friday.
The hosts fell behind early on at the London Stadium to a goal from Marc Albrighton before Cheikhou Kouyate equalised on the stroke of half time.
But neither side were able to conjure up a winning goal in a lowgrade contest.
The point gained left West Ham still in the bottom three, albeit goal difference alone was now keeping Moyes’s men in the relegation zone ahead of the remainder of this weekend’s fixtures in English football’s top flight.
But the fight they demonstrated helped restore relations between the club and their fans, who turned on the Hammers board and players alike following a miserable defeat at Watford.
“It was a start for us tonight,” Moyes told Sky Sports.
“The fans were fantastic, after all the negatives we heard, it was the opposite. When you come to play West Ham over the years, it has been a tough place to come with a tough crowd they did that tonight,” the Scot added.
“They got right behind the players and the players gave them something back. The players have set the standards today, but that only got us a draw. We need to keep that up if we want to get more from games.”