Bayer Leverkusen-owned Victor Boniface was linked heavily<\/a> too, before sealing a deadline day loan move to Werder Bremen.<\/p>\nAnd as the trio combined to devastating effect during Sunday\u2019s 4-0 away win at Borussia Monchengladbach, the Hammers may have been left wondering what they could have had. <\/p>\n
West Ham need a Werder Bremen-style bounceback against Crystal Palace<\/p>\n
To draw a more positive conclusion, West Ham can learn a lot from the way Werder Bremen have helped their new arrivals settle in alongside the old heads.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe new guys feel very comfortable and have already made their mark,\u201d head coach Horst Steffen beamed as Werder Bremen bounced back in style following that 4-1 opening weekend defeat by Eintracht Frankfurt. <\/p>\n
\u201cMany of them already know each other, and this makes it easier for the group to continue to grow together. Add to that the team\u2019s success, which makes things easier for new recruits.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have the feeling [Mbangula] is getting better every week. He\u2019s becoming more and more relaxed, has more and more good dribbles and situations that he solves for us. He can continue, and we can continue to be happy. We\u2019re happy that he\u2019s here and has already made his mark.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Mbangula opened the scoring with a thumping finish in off the crossbar and Steffen helped set up Werder\u2019s second, the former Juventus starlet drew a penalty after an electric turn of pace down the left-hand flank.<\/p>\n
Just to add a sugary layer of icing, substitute Boniface then played a gorgeous ball in behind for Justin Djinmah to wrap up Werder Bremen\u2019s biggest Bundesliga away win since they smashed Paderborn 5-1 in June 2020.<\/p>\n
How West Ham could do with a turning-back-the-clock moment of their own against Crystal Palace on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the eventual 0-3 scoreline, Graham Potter felt there were still a few positives to build upon following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,15420,596,1614,102987,102988,85,79666],"class_list":{"0":"post-153992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bundesliga","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-premier-league","13":"tag-romano-schmid","14":"tag-samuelu00a0mbangula","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-victor-boniface"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Photo by Ulrik Pedersen\/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesThree West Ham United targets combine in Bundesliga win as Victor Boniface makes his mark<\/p>\n