David Moyes praises West Ham debutant Oliver Scarles

Oliver Scarles admitted his West Ham debut was ‘surreal’ just after the 16-year-old stole the demonstrate in a 3- earn above Romanian aspect FCSB in Bucharest.

Two aims from Pablo Fornals and a deflected effort from a further teenage debutant, Divin Mubama, ensured the Hammers – already by way of to the very last 16 of the Europa Meeting League – became the to start with workforce in the competitors to get all 6 of their team-phase matches.

Supervisor David Moyes was capable to give 14 senior gamers, together with Declan Rice, Jarrod Bowen, Kurt Zouma and Michail Antonio, the night off.

Yet it was even now a mature efficiency from a line-up like initially appearances for midfielder Scarles and homegrown striker Mubama, 18, as effectively as rookie substitutes Freddie Potts, Keenan Appiah-Forson, Kamarai Swyer and Kaelan Casey.

Scarles, who grew to become West Ham’s sixth-youngest participant, told BT Sport: ‘It was just a surreal practical experience, just to make my debut and be with these boys.

‘Yesterday and these days has been an awesome working experience and some thing you dream of.

‘It was Wednesday early morning when we might completed the initially coaching session and (Moyes) sent a handful of of my good deal to do finishing exercise. Then we had the 11 setting up in positional exercise and I was in that, and my heart dropped!

‘I was like “oh my god, I’m commencing”. It was mental.’

Fornals opened the scoring five minutes ahead of half-time when he let Ben Johnson’s lengthy ball bounce in entrance of him on to his left foot just before lashing dwelling a wonderful first-time complete.

Mubama capped his unforgettable evening when he scored with a header, albeit via a deflection off Joyskim Dawa which saw it logged as an own intention.

The third arrived fittingly from one of many perilous crosses from Scarles, which goalkeeper Stefan Tarnovanu palmed straight to Fornals who crashed the loose ball into the net.

Spanish midfielder Fornals has been in and out of the aspect for Premier League matches this period, but as a person of the senior professionals on present he manufactured a stage to Moyes with his very well-taken brace.

‘We ended up now qualified, but we came right here for a hard game with a whole lot of young ones, so we should really be truly happy and grateful that the ‘Academy of Football’ is still supporting the to start with group,’ Moyes informed BT Sport.

‘We could see from the initially minute that Divin and Ollie were being taking part in really perfectly. We saw how Divin celebrated the aim, he was buzzing and his spouse and children will be buzzing at residence.

‘Ollie performed a genuinely fantastic video game as perfectly. This academy never ever stops bringing gamers via

‘Now the gamers who are right here are not actively playing as a lot as we would like, but we came listed here to do our greatest. This was was our likelihood and it is crucial for the other players to know we want to participate in just as substantially.’

For Moyes focus now turns back again to hoping to climb the Leading League, but he was equipped to appreciate a massively satisfactory evening for the club.

He claimed: ‘I hope we’re receiving foreseeable future pressure on the boys in the to start with team. All the boys played actually well tonight. It was a carefully deserved victory and we could have scored additional objectives.

‘I assumed Ollie Scarles played extremely very well. Divin received a aim, though it truly is classed as an have goal, but he’s a youthful centre-ahead and you could see what it meant for him to score a intention.

‘I consider we have performed well at occasions this season, and tonight was an additional.’