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West Ham 1-4 Swansea City

Premier League    2015-16Match review
Upton Park   34,907
  SubsGoals  
1Darren Randolph    
2Winston Reid   
3Aaron Cresswell    
21Angelo Ogbonna   
30Michail Antonio    
8Cheikhou Kouyate    
16Mark Noble    
20Victor Moses    
27Dimitri Payet    
28Manuel Lanzini    
9Andy Carroll    
15Diafra SakhoSubed #20   
29Emmanuel EmenikeSubed #8   
11Enner ValenciaSubed #28   
OWN GOAL (Stephen Kingsley) 1  
 PosTable as at 07 May 2016PlWHDHLHFHAHWADALAFAAAPts
1Leicester City37126135181152321780
2Tottenham Hotspur3610623413972331570
3Arsenal3611432711864322367
4Manchester City3612154519765231964
5Manchester United361152248747202363
6West Ham United368733124774302359
7Southampton3610353521666181857
8Liverpool357733021837292755
9Chelsea365853129747262248
10Stoke City377472023658193148
11Swansea City3785519194510223246
12Everton365583230594242244
13Watford356571817638182544
14Crystal Palace3763101923567192442
15West Bromwich Albion376481925487142242
16AFC Bournemouth375592334648213042
17Sunderland3656720203510234035
18Newcastle United3767527232314124134
19Norwich City3655822283213133431
20Aston Villa37251214351314133717
match review copied from www.theguardian.com

West Ham’s Europe hopes plunge as Routledge starts Swansea onslaught Sachin Nakrani at Upton Park

Last modified on Saturday 7 May 2016 22.20 BST

West Ham say goodbye to Upton Park on Tuesday and here they surprisingly took the opportunity to all but say goodbye to their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League. This was a match the hosts were meant to win at a canter but instead they were ruthlessly and deservedly defeated by a Swansea side who continue their transformation from relegation candidates to mid-table entertainers under Francesco Guidolin.

The Italian’s name was sung by those who filled the away end while from the home supporters came little else but a sense of muted shock. And no wonder, given what they were witnessing. West Ham came into this match having lost only twice here all season and on the back of a 10-match unbeaten run. They had also recorded their highest points total in the Premier League, 59. Another three points felt guaranteed, especially given there were six changes to the Swansea line-up on the back of them securing their top-flight status with victory over Liverpool last week. But instead it was the visitors who imposed and impressed, securing their fourth away win of the season thanks to goals from Wayne Routledge, André Ayew, Ki Sung-yueng and Bafétimbi Gomis.

West Ham now find themselves five points behind Manchester City in fourth and four points behind fifth-placed Manchester United with two matches to play, the first of which is against United, on what is sure to be an emotional occasion as West Ham fans, officials, players past and present bid farewell to their home of the past 112 years. Should they fail to beat Louis van Gaal’s side, the Londoners will also have to deal with being mathematically out of the running to finish in the top four. A win for Manchester City on Sunday against Arsenal will do that in any case.

Failing to qualify for the Europa League is also a very real possibility for West Ham, as their manager, Slaven Bilic, is fully aware. “What I’ve kept saying for the last three or four weeks is that, unfortunately, the gap between us and the top four is bigger than the gap between us and Southampton and Liverpool, and that’s the gap that I’m concentrated on,” he said. “I could not say we did not want it [the Champions League] but I wanted to approach it game by game and the good thing is we have an opportunity on Tuesday in maybe the most special game ever at Upton Park to make up for this.”

To do that West Ham will have to perform markedly better than they did here. Bilic described himself as angry with his team’s showing, claiming there were too many “passengers” in claret and blue. They started brightly and with purpose but after a quarter of an hour became increasingly disjointed and sluggish, with no one in the home ranks suffering a more torrid afternoon than Michail Antonio, who looked every part a right winger operating at right back. He was at fault for Swansea’s second and third goals, first allowing Stephen Kingsley too much time and space to play in a cross that Ayew thumped past Darren Randolph from close range on 31 minutesand then being turned and beaten too easily by Modou Barrow shortly after half-time, allowing the Swansea winger to put in a delivery that Ki swept home from near the penalty spot. Frankly, it came as no surprise to see Bilic move Antonio to a more advanced position on the hour mark.

For all West Ham’s failings, Swansea deserve credit for how they performed here, passing the ball with intelligence and speed having weathered the early period of pressure. It also bodes well for their future that most of players that came into the team impressed, no one more so than Ki, who dictated the visitors’ tempo and played a part in their opening goal, sweeping a pass out to Kyle Naughton that was turned in from close range by the unmarked Wayne Routledge.

Gomis, a substitute, wrapped up victory following a sweeping counterattack and after Kingsley had scored an own goal. “This was a good performance and we can now say it is not a bad season,” said Guidolin, who has lifted Swansea from 18th to 11th since becoming manager in January yet remarkably still does not know if he will be kept on by the Welsh club beyond next Sunday’s final match of the season, against Manchester City.

Daily Mail: MATCH FACTS, PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE, MATCH ZONE AND PLAYER RATINGS
West Ham United (4-2-3-1): Randolph 5.5; Antonio 6, Reid 5.5, Ogbonna 5, Cresswell 5.5; Kouyate 5.5 (Emenike 77), Noble (c) 6.5; Moses 5 (Sakho 59, 6.5), Payet 6.5, Lanzini 6 (Valencia 84); Carroll 6
Substitutes not used: Tomkins, Obiang, Collins, Spiegel (GK)
Scorer: Kingsley own goal 69
Booked: Sakho, Reid, Ogbonna
Manager: Slaven Bilic 5.5
Swansea City (4-3-3): Fabianski 7.5; Naughton 7, Amat 6.5, Fernandez 6.5, Kingsley 7.5; Cork (c) 7, Fer 6, Ki 8; Barrow 7 (Rangel 70, 6), Ayew 7, Routledge 7 (Gomis 82)
Substitutes not used: Britton, Emnes, Nordfeldt (GK), Gorre, Fulton
Scorers: Routledge 25; Ayew 31; Ki 51; Gomis 90+3
Manager: Francesco Guidolin 7
Referee: Michael Oliver (Northumberland) 7
Attendance: 34,907
Man of the Match:
PLAYER RATINGS BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI
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