West Ham rediscovered their goalscoring contact as they booked one other European tour with a 3-0 win over Danish aspect Viborg.
The Hammers, with no level or a objective after three matches within the Premier League, ran out comfy 6-1 winners on mixture over the 2 legs of their qualifying play-off to achieve the group levels of the Europa Conference League.
Italy striker Gianluca Scamacca, the £30million signing from Sassuolo, opened the scoring halfway by means of the primary half together with his second objective in two European appearances.
Said Benrahma and Tomas Soucek additionally discovered the web after the break to place the seal on an finally comfy night in entrance of 1,000 noisy travelling followers in Denmark.
Leading 3-1 from the primary leg, final season’s Europa League semi-finalists knew an early objective would settle any nerves and Soucek headed narrowly over from a nook earlier than Scamacca’s low first-time shot was saved.
The opening objective arrived after 22 minutes when full-back Ben Johnson fed Soucek on the best wing and the Czech midfielder’s cross was expertly swept house by Scamacca on the close to publish.
Viborg nearly equalised when former Leeds striker Jay-Roy Grot outstripped Manuel Lanzini and fizzed a shot narrowly vast.
Jakob Bonde, Viborg’s goalscorer in east London, then planted a free header straight at Hammers keeper Alphonse Areola.
And West Ham have been residing dangerously earlier than half-time when Areola needed to make a double save to disclaim Grot and Justin Lonwijk.
But they doubled their lead six minutes into the second half when Benrahma ran on to Maxwel Cornet’s by means of ball and slotted house.
It was three simply after the hour mark when Soucek bundled house the rebound after Thilo Kehrer’s header was blocked.
Cornet ought to have opened his West Ham account moments later when he was teed up by Benrahma however the summer time signing from Burnley one way or the other lifted the ball over an open objective.
Nevertheless it was a satisfying night’s work for David Moyes’ aspect and their followers, who will discover out the place their second straight European journey will take them when the draw is made on Friday.
Source: www.impartial.co.uk