Pedro Obiang and Andre Ayew scored to give West Ham manager Slaven Bilic the perfect 49th birthday present as the Hammers beat Huddersfield Town 2-0 in the Premier League on Monday.
Relief and joy
Obiang got the opener via an enormous deflection and Bilic then pumped the air in relief as much as delight when Ghanaian star Ayew pounced to add the second as West Ham claimed its first points of the season.
Defeat to Huddersfield would have left the charismatic Croat in real danger of becoming the second managerial casualty of the season, after Frank de Boer was fired by pointless Crystal Palace on Monday.
The results :
Premier League : West Ham 2 (Obiang 72, Ayew 77) bt Huddersfield 0.
La Liga : Malaga 1 (Diego Gonzalez 48) lost to Las Palmas 3 (Jonathan Viera 45, Calleri 70, Remy 89) .
