West Ham boss David Moyes sympathises with Aston Villa boss Dean Smith ahead of Sunday’s huge match at the London Stadium. Villa needs to match the results of Watford and Bournemouth to avoid relegation to the championship and Moyes has revealed his own relief that West Ham has been able to mathematically secure their top-flight status before the final day.
David Moyes said “I know how the manager there is feeling because I’ve felt it before, It’s incredibly stressful for the managers. There’s so much at stake and, thankfully for ourselves, we got ourselves out of it. I can only talk about West Ham. We’d have liked to not be in the bottom three but we were. But I can only really talk about us, not the other three teams that are now down there. He has been really important to us, He has played great. He’s just turned into his 30s but he’s matured a lot recently. He’s looking after himself in a way that gives him every chance of performing well. Michail has certainly stepped up to the plate.”
