A New Look West Ham

For the first time in a while, I genuinely enjoyed our encounter with Hull last night.
The game had everything, great goals, good football and neither team stopped giving it 100%. In recent times it has become a real chore watching the hammers play, even when we win games the often under par performance can take away from the spectacle.

Initially my thoughts last night were less than positive after Hull went 1-0 up but I remained positive and hoped that we would improve in the second half and thankfully, we did. A moment of class from Enner Valencia shocked everybody within the KC stadium and everybody at home.  Up until that point I had heard a lot of good things about Valencia, after all the man is highly thought of in his home country of Ecuador and with goals like that it won't take him long to gain many plaudits in England either.

Obviously the second goal we gave away was massively disappointing as we were in complete control up until that point, playing good football and having opportunities on goal to go along with it. That was until a poor throw in resulted in an ex hammer Mohamed Diame calmly slotting past Adrian in the West Ham goal, in Mo's defense he was reluctant to celebrate, so the softened the blow a little I guess.

In didn't take long for us to get level after Sakho's shot was initially save but Allan Mcgregor only for it to come off of his own Defender Curtis Davies for it to go into his own net. Although it counted as a won goal it was nice to see another new boy getting amongst the action and having a positive impact.

What surprised me was how we were knocking the ball around, it's become a very familiar sight when the ball is in our own half to lump it up field and hope for the best but instead we calmly knocked it around and although it didn't do my blood pressure any good it was a nice alternative to the usual hoof ball. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to get too excited as James Collins still needs to return from injury and no disrespect to ginge but he is the main culprit for hoof ball

I know it's still early days but I think its possible that we are seeing a new look West Ham side. The new attacking approach that is being endorsed looks set to be working and although we have the difficult fixtures coming up in the form of Liverpool and Manchester United it would be great to see more of the same.