‘Wow’: Declan Rice has been absolutely blown away by West Ham summer signing’s training displays

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Declan Rice has hailed Gianluca Scamacca after his superb goal for West Ham United against Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday.

West Ham really needed to come up with a positive result as they finally look to kickstart their Premier League campaign.

Moyes went with Scamacca up top over Michail Antonio and that decision was justified.

The Italian hammered a fine volley into the back of the net having initially played Jarrod Bowen in on goal.

Bowen ended up grabbing for himself too as West Ham picked up a 2-0 win they desperately needed.

Declan Rice has hailed Gianluca Scamacca

Scamacca made the headlines with his fine goal, opening his Premier League account following his big summer move from Sassuolo.

The Italian hitman cost a huge £35.5million this summer after 16 goals in 36 Serie A games for Sassuolo last season.

Scamacca is a giant target man at 6ft 5in tall but he showed his ability to strike a ball on Saturday.

That’s something Declan Rice has noticed too having been dazzled by West Ham’s new striker in training.

Rice told West Ham’s official media that Scamacca’s outstanding goal against Wolves was ‘no surprise’ to him.

That’s because Scamacca seemingly scores similarly brilliant goals in West Ham training all the time, leaving Rice to believe that he can really deliver quality moving forward.

“No surprise, I see it in training every day,” said Rice. “He’s probably scored about 20 worldies since he’s been here and I’ve just gone ‘wow’, he can hit a ball and when he gets the space, he can really deliver for us,” he added.

Scamacca has endured a tricky start to life at West Ham having recently suffered with a virus that limited his impact.

Scamacca has though impressed in the Europa Conference League and this goal against Wolves shows what he can do in the Premier League.

Don’t forget that Paris Saint-Germain wanted Scamacca before his move to West Ham; this is a striker of high quality and David Moyes will now look to utilise that on a regular basis in the Premier League.