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Post Match: Wrexham

Started Last Movement

West Ham's 6-0 win over Wrexham put them top of the Championship, with six different scorers sharing the damage. Nuno Espírito Santo says the London Stadium crowd is a genuine advantage, though he insists four straight wins are no grand statement yet.

No-Guff Summary

  • West Ham beat Wrexham 6-0 at London Stadium to return to the top of the Championship.
  • Nuno Espírito Santo says a crowd of 59,712 showed the home advantage West Ham can harness.
  • Six different scorers provided a confidence boost, but Nuno played down four straight wins as any kind of statement.
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Bowen leads six-goal rout of Wrexham

West Ham did not merely finish the job against Wrexham. They turned a comfortable half-time lead into a 6-0 rout at London Stadium.

Jarrod Bowen opened the scoring and later supplied Konstantinos Mavropanos. Joël Piroe, Taty Castellanos, Mohamadou Kanté and Manor Solomon completed the rout.

West Ham Zone reported that the result moved the Hammers top of the Championship before West Brom play on Saturday.

Sources

  • West Ham Zone (opens in a new tab) — Reports on West Ham’s 6-0 win over Wrexham, highlighting Jarrod Bowen’s goal and assist and assessing the performances of the West Ham players.
  • The42 (opens in a new tab) — Reports West Ham returned to the top of the Championship after a 6-0 win over Wrexham, with Jared Bowen scoring and assisting in the victory.
  • West Ham Zone (opens in a new tab) — Reports on Joel Piroe's missed chance and subsequent goal in West Ham's 6-0 win over Wrexham, including Don Goodman's criticism during the Sky Sports broadcast, and assesses the striker's importance to West Ham's promotion campaign.
  • West Ham Zone (opens in a new tab) — Reports on West Ham’s 6-0 Championship victory over Wrexham and the club’s reported record of six different goalscorers in one match.
  • West Ham Zone (opens in a new tab) — Reports on West Ham's 6-0 win over Wrexham, Joel Piroe's Instagram exchange with Mads Hermansen and Hermansen's early-season goalkeeping statistics.
  • Claret&Hugh (opens in a new tab) — Reports West Ham’s 6-0 win over Wrexham featured six different scorers, which it says was a first in the club’s 131-year history.
  • The West Ham Way (opens in a new tab) — Describes West Ham’s 6-0 win over Wrexham as a dominant performance and argues that the result reflects the team’s recent improvement and more attacking approach.
  • Tactical Football Analysis (opens in a new tab) — Explains how West Ham’s movement, ball progression and 4-4-2 shape exposed Wrexham’s passive defending in a 6-0 Championship victory.
  • The72 (opens in a new tab) — Argues that Jarrod Bowen is operating at an exceptional level in the Championship, using reported FotMob statistics and his seven goal contributions in seven matches to assess his impact after West Ham’s 6-0 win over Wrexham.
  • West Ham Zone (opens in a new tab) — Argues that Kyle Walker-Peters deserved a place in the Championship Team of the Week after providing two assists in West Ham's 6-0 win over Wrexham, and discusses the opportunity presented by Joel Veltman's injury.