BOWEN: I CAN TAKE PREM HEAT

JARROD BOWEN insists he can handle the pressure of playing in the top flight with West Ham.

His boss David Moyes last week tried to manage expectations by insisting the £18million “boy from Hull” should not be regarded as the Hammers’ “saviour”.

But he impressed on his first West Ham start with his first goal for the club (left) and first in the Premier

League. Bowen, 23, now with 18 goals this season, said: “I have settled in well. I was always going to be nervous. My first start, at home. The fans are expecting big things of me.

“Of course I feel those expectations. I know the goals I have scored were in a different league to the Premier League, but people still expect you to score. So to get the opener was really pleasing.”