Moyes: Beating Arsenal is a fitting end to a fantastic 2023

David Moyes hailed his West Ham United side as they finished a memorable 2023 with a 2-0 away win against an Arsenal side who were seeking to go top of the Premier League.

Goals from Tomas Soucek and Konstantinos Mavropanos earned Moyes his first ever away win against the Gunners in all competitions.

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The Hammers, who are next in action on 2 January against Brighton & Hove Albion, end the calendar year sitting sixth in the table and pushing for Europe again, having won the UEFA Europa Conference League in June.

“What about 2023 for us as a club? It’s been fantastic,” Moyes told the club’s official website. “And thankfully we’ve finished it off in great fashion today.

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“We’ve lost a couple of games conceding five in recent weeks, which I’ve hated. I try not to get my teams to do that, but tonight we’ve defended really well. 

“We had two different centre-halves tonight, we lost [Lucas] Paqueta [during the first half], after he picked up an injury in the warm-up.

“So there were lots of things going against us, but I have to say it was a brilliant resolute performance.

“They did everything together, they worked so hard together and we could have even got another right at the end there from the penalty.”