West Ham United put six previous Barnsley at Upton Park on this present day in 1998 to document their largest win within the Premier League.
Barnsley had been of their first (and to this point solely) season within the Premier League, having gained promotion from the First Division the earlier marketing campaign. That they had solely recorded 5 victories within the earlier 19 video games, however had gained their final league recreation 1-0 at residence to Derby County.
West Ham, nevertheless, had been doing very effectively and the victory saved them in eighth place within the desk. This was the identical place that they completed the season in. Barnsley completed the season in nineteenth.
The house aspect took solely 5 minutes to take the lead, with Frank Lampard discovering the online. Frenchman Samassi Abou doubled West Ham’s lead simply after the half-hour mark to offer them a 2-0 lead at half-time.
Abou added his second of the sport seven minutes after the restart, earlier than John Moncur and John Hartson scored within the 57th and 67th minute. Australian worldwide Stan Lazaridis scored the sixth in damage time to safe West Ham’s largest win of the season.
If you want to examine Barnsley’s 1997/98 season, there’s a entire article about it within the A Season To Bear in mind part of this weblog. Yow will discover a hyperlink right here.
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