Following a run of positive performances, West Ham United women’s team defender Amber Tysiak insisted our Barclays Women’s Super League victory over Everton was a result that had been coming.
The Hammers recorded our first league victory of the campaign on Sunday against the Toffees, running out 3-1 winners at Chigwell Construction Stadium.
Anouk Denton got the scoring underway, tucking home at the near post just after the half-hour mark, and then Tysiak doubled our advantage shortly before the break with a well-placed header from Viviane Asseyi’s corner.
Shekiera Martinez put the game beyond any doubt nine minutes after half-time, remaining composed with silky footwork inside the penalty area, meaning Katja Snoeijs’ 88th-minute consolation had no effect on the end result.
As well as getting on the scoresheet with her first goal of the season, Tysiak was monumental in defence, making an important, last-ditch challenge on Ornella Vignola in the first half, when the Toffees attacker raced through on goal, before producing a well-timed block to deny Snoeijs in the second.
After the disappointment of the late draw to Leicester City, a game the Irons dominated, and a positive display at high-flying Manchester City, back-to-back wins in Dagenham has been nothing short of what the Hammers deserved.
“We’ve been working really hard,” said Tysiak. “We’ve kept on believing, we’ve been doing our work in training and we played really, really great [against Everton].
“It was coming. It was coming last week, we did it on Wednesday [against Southampton in the Subway® Women's League Cup] with a lot of goals and now we’re just so happy we’ve finally got the win [in the WSL].
“We’ve just grown [in front of goal]. We don’t think anymore, I think everyone just wants to score more goals. You can see today, it doesn’t matter who scores, how we score, we just want to score a lot of goals.
“I think we came out of the international break brilliantly, and it’s been coming. [Manchester] City was [the] start, with a really good performance and then we kept on building. Finally we’ve now got the three points.”
