West Ham 2-0 Bournemouth: Hammers end pre-season tour on high with Jarrod Bowen on target | OneFootball

A second win from three Stateside for the Irons

West Ham finished their pre-season tour of the United States with a comfortable 2-0 win over Bournemouth in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ruben Amorim’s Red Devils drew 2-2 with the Toffees to lift the competition’s second title, but that does not mean that West Ham did not impress when it mattered.

Club captain Jarrod Bowen and his strike partner Niclas Fullkrug were both on the scoresheet as Potter’s Hammers got the better of Andoni Iraola’s Cherries at the Mercedes-Benz Arena.

Lucas Paqueta started and played 85 minutes in his first match since being cleared of spot-fixing charges earlier this week.

Bournemouth dominated the ball for the most part, with 57% possession, and their talismanic striker Evanilson missed an absolute sitter when given a gilt-edged opportunity to put the Dorset club ahead in the first half.

Marcus Tavernier and Hamed Traore both threatened for Bournemouth, and Ilya Zabarnyi, linked with a move to Paris Saint-Germain, rattled the crossbar with a header as West Ham survived an early onslaught.

El Hadji Malick Diouf, the Hammers’ new left wing-back, delivered a delicious delivery on 24 minutes which Bowen mishit, before Fullkrurg gobbled up the rebound to put Potter’s side into an unlikely lead.

Bowen doubled the advantage in the second half, with 67 minutes on the watch. Diouf again was the creator, carving out another stellar cross for the Irons’ skipper to redirect back across goal and into the corner.

Two wins from three Stateside for Potter. Positive, but more work needs to be done in the transfer market if they are to go into the new season with any kind of momentum.