West Ham's Declan Rice admits being ‘battered’ by David Moyes over Jesse Lingard penalty
dailystar.co.ukWest Ham held out for a vital 2-0 victory in their quest for European qualification. Asked why he was not on the penalty as captain after scoring their only other spot-kick this season, Rice admitted to Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football presenter David Jones: “I knew you was going to chuck that one in (laughs).“Do you know what, the gaffer has just battered me in there.“Me and Jess spoke, we’ve been practicing them in training together.
He said to me ‘can I take it?’“I’m not one to be selfish. There was a bit of controversy obviously with the last penalty (against Sheffield United), but I was confident in him to go up and take the ball.“Obviously if he’d have missed that there would have been a backlash on me, but I was confident in Jeese’s.
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