West Ham United secured back-to-back victories by dispatching Premier League relegation rivals, Burnley, 3-2 on home turf, stretching their unbeaten H2H run to seven matches.
Riding high on last weekend’s win against Newcastle, it was hardly surprising to see West Ham fly out of the blocks against relegation rivals Burnley.
For all their early pressure, a Jarrod Bowen free-kick that flew straight into the Clarets’ wall was as close as they came to an early breakthrough.
The first good chance of the game fell the way of Burnley, as Kyle Walker’s raking ball in behind found Quilindschy Hartman, whose teasing ball across the box was inches away from being tapped in by Zian Flemming.
It only seemed a matter of time before Scott Parker’s men eventually found a breakthrough, and it duly arrived 10 minutes before the break. Lesley Ugochukwu was influential throughout the opening 45 minutes, and it was his teasing delivery which was inch-perfect for Flemming to power a header back across goal and into the corner.
The Clarets had a stronghold of the game for large parts, but they threw it all away on the stroke of half-time when a short corner routine bamboozled their defence and Crysencio Summerville’s blocked shot fell favourably for Callum Wilson to head home from inside the six-yard box – his seventh goal in his last five starts against Burnley.
The interval probably came at a bad time for West Ham, who were just starting to build up a head of steam before referee Michael Sallisbury sounded the whistle.
