The Hammers, even without Rice, beat a strong Liverpool! Tomas Soucek was one of West Ham’s best players, how did he do?

West Ham fell to Liverpool at Anfield Road. The Hammers lost by the narrowest possible margin 0:1, with Sadio Mané scoring the only goal of the game. After a long time in David Moyes’ starting eleven, the much-praised Declan Rice was missing and thanks to that Tomas Soucek could stand out more.

The Argentine Manuel Lanzini came on alongside Tomáš Souček. The whole game was more or less about the Reds controlling the ball. But the West Ham midfielders played a very good game. WhoScored gave the highest marks to the Lanzini-Soucek duo.

David Moyes tested a 4-4-2 without the “indispensable” Declan Rice and it was no disgrace. The Czech national captain is a two-for-two and Manuel Lanzini is very creative.

Even Declan Rice noticed the good performance of his teammates and praised them on Twitter. We deserved to take something(points) from that game. Now we focus on Thursday!”

Tomas Soucek got an above average rating of 7.14 from WhoScored.During the game he had 49 touches of the ball (the fourth highest number of WHU players), won three headers, got on the end line twice and made one key pass.

His pass success rate was almost 76%. The Czech national team captain also shone defensively. On 6 occasions he managed to win the ball back into West Ham’s possession.

Three times he won the ball in a foot-to-foot duel and three times he intercepted Liverpool’s pass. He also added three clearances from dangerous areas (for WHU).

Soucek’s performance was praised by fans on social media. Who, despite the disappointing result, praised the Czech forward.

WhoScored, Tomáš Souček, Declan Rice