West Ham United manager David Moyes has provided an update on the wellbeing of star defender Kurt Zouma, on the back of the club’s meeting with Kidderminster Harriers.

Frenchman Zouma was afforded just his 2nd start in the space of two months on Saturday, on the back of a lengthy spell out of action with a hamstring injury.

The ex-Chelsea man, though, was ultimately forced to remain in the thick of the action for far longer than was originally intended.

This is according to the aforementioned David Moyes, anyway.

Speaking to the media on the back of the action coming to a close this afternoon, West Ham’s boss was drawn on Zouma’s wellbeing, after the stopper saw out the full 120 minutes at Aggborough Stadium.

And Moyes went on to confirm that, as far as he is aware, Zouma is ‘okay’, before providing an explanation for the 27-year-old not being hooked from proceedings earlier:

Bowen at the death

West Ham, in the end, got the job done on Saturday, to book the club’s spot in the 5th-round of the FA Cup.

This only came, however, after the Irons managed to avoid one of the most embarrassing defeats in the long and storied history of the competition by the skin of their teeth.

As proceedings rolled into injury-time at Aggborough, Moyes and co. actually trailed their 6th (yes, SIXTH) tier hosts by a goal to nil.

Declan Rice, though, emerged from the bench to save his side’s blushes courtesy of a moment of individual brilliance with 91 minutes on the clock, culminating in an extra 30 minutes of action:

And, with a full 120 minutes on the clock, West Ham managed to break the hearts of their Kidderminster counterparts once and for all, as Jarrod Bowen popped up at the back post to slot home into an empty net:

 

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