Monday, March 8, 2021 at 11:03 PM

West Ham United booked an important victory in the battle for European football on Monday evening in the Premier League. At home, David Moyes’ team was 2-0 too strong for Leeds United, which saw two more goals disallowed for offside. Climbing thanks to the win the Hammers, at the expense of Everton, to fifth place in the rankings. West Ham has played a game less and can still overtake number four Chelsea. Leeds is stuck in eleventh position.

It sat the Whites, who took office without the injured Pascal Struijk, did not exactly participate in the opening phase of the match. Shortly after Hélder Costa shot a shot just over in the fifth minute, Leeds still seemed to make the opening goal via Tyler Roberts. Earlier that attack, however, Patrick Bamford was offside, so that the glasses position remained on the scoreboard. A minute later, another goal was disallowed when Bamford hit the ropes on a pass from Raphina; The latter, however, gave the cross when the ball had already passed the end line: no hit.

Halfway through the first half it was hit on the other side. Jesse Lingard himself took a penalty after being knocked out in the box by Luke Ayling. At first goalkeeper Illan Meslier managed to turn the weakly shot penalty kick, but Lingard scored from the rebound: 1-0. The margin doubling followed not much later, when Craig Dawson headed home from a corner by Aaron Cresswell: 2-0. In the second act, it was mainly the visitors who ruled, but the attacking intentions did not lead to a connection goal. Raphinha failed to score face to face with Lukasz Fabianski, and Bamford also missed an opportunity more than fifteen minutes before the end.