Irons boss David Moyes has stated that the hard fought draw against Leicester at the King Power Stadium is a good result and a valuable point in the top 4 race this season.

West Ham had to dig deep to grind out a win despite starting the game well and looking in I’ll control for the majority of the first half.

Craig Dawson came to the rescue in the 91st minute to level the tie to give our Hammers a big boost as we now look to carry on our challenge to reach European football for the elite.

“I hope it is a really valuable point,” said Moyes.

”The performance started okay, for 20-30 minutes we did okay but we did not keep it up and I felt we gave Leicester a bit of a lift with our poor decisions, passing and choices of passes which led to a couple of corner kicks and giving them a chance to put some pressure.

“I felt in the main we were dealing with it quite well at that time.

“We are playing a team who have won the FA Cup and who have not long been league champions. I think Leicester have been an unbelievable side and have some great players in their team so I do not think it is a bad result, we beat Leicester at home and taken a point at Leicester so for us to take a return like that from Leicester is a really good points return.

“Would we like more? Of course, we would of we want to do everything to kick on and do everything that everybody wants us to keep up near the top four but already we are doing well and the players are doing a great job and staying with it and we are going to try and squeeze every last drop out of them and we need to improve upon our form.”

Moyes was also full of praise for Issa Diop, who came in as a last minute change to replace Kurt Zouma who was feeling unwell.

“I think Issa is a really good player, his form has been a little bit up and down but I think there are some reasons for that. We like Issa, we really do. We think Issa has, I was going to say potential but we feel because he has been here that long we feel his potential should be out and he should be showing it and maturing with it.

“He has a lot of good attributes and I am pleased he did play well, he had a good game and I could not turn around and fault him too much on anything he did but as I said he was made well aware there was a good chance he may have to step in and he knew that himself from quite early on.”