Gianluca Scamacca opens West Ham account in Europa Conference League win
Gianluca Scamacca scored his first West Ham goal on Thursday to help secure a 3-1 win over Danish minnows Viborg in the Europa Conference League play-offs.
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Gianluca Scamacca scored his first West Ham goal on Thursday to help secure a 3-1 win over Danish minnows Viborg in the Europa Conference League play-offs.
Scamacca opens his West Ham account in Conference League win
West Ham, who made the Europa League semifinals last season, went into the game after back-to-back losses in the Premier League to Manchester City and Nottingham Forest. But Italian international Scamacca, signed for £30 million from Sassuolo, eased the nerves by finding the target in the 23rd minute after being teed up by another new signing, Maxwel Cornet. Jarrod Bowen added a second in the 64th minute before Viborg pulled one back through Jakob Bonde five minutes later. Twelve minutes from time, substitute Michail Antonio scored a third for West Ham to put the Londoners on course for a place in the group stage.
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Nottingham Forest’s Welsh manager Steve Cooper (R) speaks to his players during a drink break during the English Premier League football match between Nottingham Forest and West Ham United at The City Ground in Nottingham, central England, on August 14, 2022. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP)
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West Ham United on Sunday, their first victory of the new Premier League season as the City Ground hosted top-flight soccer for the first time since 1999. Awoniyi scored Forest's first Premier League goal in 23 years in first half stoppage time and it proved to be the difference as both teams had goals disallowed by VAR and West Ham captain Declan Rice had a second-half penalty saved.