MOYES ‘BACK AT TOP TABLE’

Kick-off 8pm

vDAVID MOYES feels he is finally back where he belongs in the Premier League table.

West Ham host Crystal Palace tonight, looking to move closer to the top four.

And even if they do not, it is still their best start to a season in five years.

Twice, the Scot was hired to get the Hammers out of the relegation mire.

Twice, he succeeded, including last term, but Moyes insisted escapology was alien to him.

He said: “I’m not used to managing at the bottom of the league – I’m used to managing at the top.

“If you look at the majority of my career, it has only been teams who were at the top of the league.

“So I’m actually in a position where I feel I’m comfortable. I was much more uncomfortable when I was having to get teams out of relegation battles.

“For 11 years, I had

Everton five, six, sevenplace finishes nearly all the time with very little finances so I’m expecting to do the same here – there’s such big potential at West Ham.”

Moyes (above, celebrating with his players after beating Leeds 2-1 at Elland Road) is likely to keep faith with Sebastien Haller up front, but only because Michail Antonio is still recovering from a hamstring problem.

Haller, who cost £45million from Eintracht Frankfurt, has scored just two Premier League goals this season.

Moyes said: “We are looking capable of scoring goals in every game we play in and we have been doing that without our talisman in Michy Antonio.

“We have had to come through a period of five or six games without him and we have had to find a way of picking up results.”

Moyes estimated he will be without Arthur Masuaku for around three months after the wingback had knee surgery.