sport news Anderlecht 0-1 West Ham: Scamacca continues hot streak in Europa Conference ... trends now
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The cavalry came to West Ham’s rescue on Thursday night as David Moyes’s three substitutes combined to maintain their perfect record in this season’s Europa Conference League group stages.
Moyes’s nine changes showed on a fair night in Brussels with the rusty Said Benrahma squandering at least three chances to score, blazing one opportunity over an open goal.
Yet the introduction of Gianluca Scamacca, Lucas Paqueta and Declan Rice in the 70th minute made it three wins from three. Rice’s diagonal ball switched the play before Paqueta fed Scamacca, who turned and scored to hand West Ham a 1-0 win over Anderlecht.
There can be few more satisfying sights for managers than when their substitutions come good and the confidence of £35.5million striker Scamacca is clearly growing, having bagged his first Premier League goal last week.
Flynn Downes, the 23-year-old midfielder, deserves a special mention, too. His tidiness in the centre of the park gave West Ham control before they found the breakthrough.
Rice told reporters on Wednesday night about the ‘obscene’ amount of games he had played in the last year – 68 between June 2021 and June 2022 – and
