What a crucial win it was at the weekend for West Ham.
The east London side made the short trip to Selhurst Park on Saturday evening to face Crystal Palace and duly reminded their critics that this blip is just that, and it looks to be on the way out.
It was an assured and confidence performance from the Hammers and it looked as though they were the form team for this fixture, not the hosts.
West Ham didn’t let the Eagles settle into the game at all as they applied the pressure and eventually got what they deserved via a Manuel Lanzini effort.
Slaven Bilic will have been pleased about what he saw, too, as his side put in a real shift and it could just turn out that the club go on a better run now with Sunderland up next next weekend.
Time to take stock, then, here are three things we learned from the Hammers victory.
