West Ham United Football Club News

• Nickname:Hammers
• Founded:1895
• Manager:Sam Allardyce

• Ground:Upton Park
• Capacity:35,595

Noble sets European target

31 Mar 2009 - 11:11:55

Click To Enlarge

West Ham United midfielder Mark Noble is backing his side to clinch a top-seven finish and earn a crack at European football next season.

The England Under-21 international has helped the Hammers rise to eighth place in the Premier League standings and they trail seventh-placed Wigan Athletic on goal difference only.

Noble said: "If you see the way we are playing, the football we are playing, even if we go 1-0 or 2-0 down we still play the right way and I think that's the only way Gianfranco Zola wants us to play.

"Some of the goals we have scored lately, the movement and the passing, have been fantastic and at the moment it's a pleasure to play in this team.

"The last two games, even though we haven't lost them, six months ago we might have lost them. But we didn't, we have drawn them.

"We have got so many injury problems at the minute, but we have got on with it and dealt with it.

"I think we had six youth team players on the bench last weekend and we managed to come away with a draw, so I think that's credit to the manager.

"As players we are sticking by him and hopefully when we get a few players back we can have another go at securing seventh place."