West Ham loses but coach laughs it off
loved their time here and would come back, if another tour along these lines could be scheduled. Partly because they owed New Zealand fans some football, having produced next to none in these two matches.
It was helpful that Allardyce had a moment to huff and puff about, because the rest of the match barely merits a mention.
Gameiro got things under way with a goal in the fourth minute, after Ali Abbas played him through on the counter attack. Then Alex Brosque made it 2-0 22 minutes later.
The game was going nowhere when West Ham pulled a goal back, following Matt Jarvis’ deflected cross in the 50th minute. Waldron’s generosity gave Gameiro his second, before a stalemate developed as the substitutes flooded on.