NORWICH, England (Reuters) – West Ham United thrashed relegated Norwich City 4-0 within the Premier League on Sunday to keep the pressure on Manchester United within the battle for sixth place and a swift return to the Europa League.
Said Benrahma put the Hammers forward within the twelfth minute at Carrow Road with a deflected volley hit right-footed and low off a Jarrod Bowen go, and bagged his second in first-half stoppage time.
Michail Antonio, who scored all of the objectives in a 4-0 rout final time the Hammers visited Norwich at the tip of the 2020 season, had made it 2-0 on the half hour with his first league purpose since Jan. 1.
The first three objectives had been all assisted by Bowen.
The Canaries thought they’d pulled one again within the forty seventh when former West Ham defender Sam Byram netted however a VAR evaluation dominated it out for handball.
Manuel Lanzini made it 4-0 from the penalty spot within the sixty fifth after one other VAR evaluation discovered Danish midfielder Jacob Soerensen had dealt with.
Victory left the Londoners on 55 factors and three behind Manchester United, who misplaced 4-0 at Brighton on Saturday and have performed one recreation extra.
David Moyes’s facet misplaced their Europa League semi-final to Bundesliga facet Eintracht Frankfurt 3-1 on mixture on Thursday however discovered the proper treatment for that disappointment in bottom-ranked opponents who had been booed off at halftime.
Norwich have now misplaced 12 dwelling league matches this season.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, enhancing by Ed Osmond)
