West Ham coach David Moyes has backed Jesse Lingard to resurrect his England career following his debut brace yesterday for the hammers in a 3 – 1 victory over Aston Villa.
The 28-year-old, who joined David Moyes side on loan from Manchester United last week, has not featured for his country since 2019 having lost his position in Southgate’s squad due to poor form and lack of game time at Old Trafford.
Lingard played a crucial role in the Three Lions semi-final berth at the World Cup in 2018 – featuring in six of their seven games – and Moyes believes Lingard can force his way back into Southgate’s squad for the upcoming European Championships.
“If he keeps that form up then it might be Gareth coming knocking again,” he said.
“He will have his own ambitions and challenges to show people he is at a level and he showed a really good level, Ross Barkley is very much the same for Villa.
“There are a lot of people who are pushing hard to make the England squad for the Euros and why shouldn’t Jesse push if he’s in the form he is in tonight?
“If he keeps playing as well as he did he will do a brilliant job for West Ham and if he keeps going like that then he’ll get back into the England squad. I hope he can get back to that standard.”
The victory kept the Hammers at fifth position and they are now just two points behind Liverpool after the champions suffered another defeat, losing 1-0 to Brighton.
“We gave three awful goals away and you can’t do that at this level.
“The third one Emi will feel he can do better with but I’m not going to moan about my goalkeeper making mistakes when he has kept 10 clean sheets this season.
“We got ourselves back into the game with Ollie but they scored a poor third goal.
“We have set the standards and you want to keep that going. I’ll reflect and I tweaked the system and maybe it was the wrong decision.
“We didn’t have a zip about us, I don’t know the reason why.”
