Feb 27, 2016 9:37:29 AM
West Ham secured a 1-0 win over Sunderland thanks to in-form Michail Antonio, although Jack Rodwell spurned late chances for the visitors.
Michail Antonio scored for the third straight match at Upton Park as West Ham secured a 1-0 Premier League win over former boss Sam Allardyce and Sunderland.
Allardyce parted company with West Ham at the end of last season and once again defended his record at the club in the face of supporter criticism this week.
Successor Slaven Bilic has impressively steered West Ham toward the upper reaches of the Premier League — the club moves up to fifth on the back of this triumph — but there was little of the flowing football he is credited for introducing as an antidote to the Allardyce years in a drab affair.