Last Minute Goal Victory, West Ham United Qualified For Europa League Knockout Round

West Ham United midfielder Tomas Soucek celebrated the goal he scored in the Europa League match. (Twitter @westham)

JAKARTA - West Ham United must work hard to ensure qualify for the Knokckout round before defeating TSC Backa Topola 1-0 in the Europa League Group A match at the FK TSC Stadium on Friday, December 1, western Indonesian time.

West Ham advanced to the next round after experiencing difficulties to conquer his opponent.

In that match, West Ham, who received support from 320 hardline supporters to Serbia, was forced to work hard to dismantle the backa Topola defense.

Manager David Moyes lost forward players Jarrod Bowen and Michail Antonio who suffered injuries. Practically, Moyes relies on young striker Divin Mubama who is a central forward.

Mubama himself has just brought the FA Junior Cup championship team. In that match, the 19th player received support from Said Benrahma and Lucas Paqueta and Pablo Fornals.

It's just that they have to work hard through the host defense. Until finally midfielder Tomas Soucek who broke the deadlock by scoring the only goal in the match.

Soucek who received an assist from Maxwel Cornet broke into the opponent's goal towards the end of the match. This became his fifth goal in a row for West Ham and the Republic of Indonesia National Team. Czech

He showed the action of passing several host players before releasing a slightly crossing volley in the 89th minute.

The victory became West Ham in the top of the standings with 12 points.

Same with Freiburg who beat Olympiakos 5-0. Only The Hammers superior goal difference so that it is ranked at the top.

The fate of the two teams will be determined who won the group as well as going to the last 16. While ranking two must pass the play-offs.

West Ham, who is the Europa Conference League championship, hosted Freiburg at the London Stadium, 15 December 2023 early morning hrs.

While TSC Backa Topola occupies the bottom of the standings after only having one point. In the last match, they played away against Olympiakos who was ranked third with four points.