Sam Allardyce

Now people will say, well, Andy Carroll, you can't play football as much as you would play or West Ham might want to play.

But it was about the result today, wasn't it?

And he caused lots and lots and lots and lots of trouble for the Huddersfield defence.

In the end, they cracked and they lost and West Ham deserved to win.

Well, Jamie, it's also about putting the ball in behind, even though there were nothing on, and turning the defender, get him to run back, he won his own goal, they've won the ball back in their own half, and now, slightly fortunate, of course, well, more than slightly fortunate.

Absolutely, you know, I mean, certainly for Slav...

You know, that's taking the pressure off him now.

He's got the three points on the board.

He can push on and think that the players who were injured may come back and strengthen the squad, as Andy said, and things can move on from here.

And, of course, it's very important for this season for West Ham to win at home.

Going in, by the way?

On the troubles that they said.

No, not really.

I was bending into the top corner.

Let him have it.

Own goals are not what the defenders want, so let the forwards have them.

His first goal at the London Stadium.

But the game really was in the balance, wasn't it, at that point?

At that point, West Ham looked like they'd tried everything to score, lost a little bit of direction and Huddersfield were starting to come back into the game and open up a little bit more, which is, you know, obviously in the end...

But of course, you see, it wasn't about the play then after that.