David Moyes
David Moyes says attention will immediately switch to Leeds United despite West Ham’s Europa Conference League semi-final win over AZ Alkmaar. The win over the Dutch side sees the Hammers set up a date with Fiorentina in the final in Prague next month. The Whites head to the London Stadium knowing a win would give their survival push a shot in the arm. Leeds boss Sam Allardyce was pleased his former club were able to reach the final in the hope celebrations would impact their preparations for Sunday.
David Moyes said: “I think it’s an incredibly tough fixture but we still feel as if we would like to get more points. We can still climb the table if we win games so that’s what I’m looking at and we have to get ourselves ready again. It’s the hard part of Thursday-Sunday football. But it’s a great part when you have just reached a final, the confidence, the belief, the atmosphere inside the stadium will hopefully give us a real opportunity to maybe play without as much pressure as we have been under for a long time. Maybe give the players that opportunity to show the levels they can reach so we look at it slightly different but understand exactly Leeds United are in a position where they need to try and win and will try anything to do so.”
The Hammers boss also admits he could well make changes for the visit of Leeds,
David Moyes added: “I’m not wary about doing it at all. Managers quite often will be criticised for whatever they do so you have to do what you think is right. Last week we had played a semi final on the Thursday night and we had to play again on Sunday. Unfortunately we have had so many games and the Premier League continues to give us games thick and fast which is part of being in it. We have got to go Thursday Sunday again this week so we will have a decision to make on what players we choose but if I have to do it again and I think it is right then I will do so. As a manager you can field whatever side you feel is right. We had to make a few decisions against Brentford last week. We had played the first leg in the semi final (on the Thursday) and I had to make a few decisions and quite often the minute your decisions don’t go right you get mentioned. What it was was to leave people out last week and get us ready for this to get to the final and we took that and we have got some decisions to make this week as well.”
