West Ham midfielder Declan Rice says the east London membership concern no-one after knocking Sevilla out of the Europa League and he would welcome a quarter-final tie towards Barcelona.
The Hammers confronted a one-goal deficit going into Thursday evening’s last-16, second-leg tie towards the Spanish aspect – who're probably the most embellished membership in Europa League historical past and are presently second in La Liga.
However West Ham produced a heroic efficiency on the London Stadium to e-book their place within the subsequent spherical, with Tomas Soucek levelling the scores on combination earlier than Andriy Yarmolenko netted an emotional winner in extra-time to ship the house followers wild.
There are nonetheless some large groups left within the competitors – equivalent to RB Leipzig, Atalanta and a resurgent Barcelona – however Rice says rival groups is not going to need to face West Ham and he would welcome a visit to Camp Nou.
Requested who he desires within the subsequent spherical, Rice informed BT Sport: ‘I mentioned this after the FA Cup win towards Leeds, I’ll take anybody and I feel the lads will take anybody as nicely.
‘There’s no-one to concern. Sevilla had been most likely the favourites. When the draw got here out, folks thought we had the toughest draw and we had been going to get knocked out… and we’ve knocked them out!
‘So, look, we are able to go away anyplace and get a outcome and groups coming right here know they’re in for a recreation once they step into this stadium with our followers, so I’m able to take anybody.’
Pundit Joe Cole then provided up Barcelona as a possible tie, saying: ‘Me and the blokes fancy the Nou Camp, we’ve heard they do some good paella down there!’
Rice laughed and replied: ‘You’ve had some huge nights there as nicely geez! Yeah it might be particular to go there and face Barcelona.
‘Like I mentioned, that is what this membership deserves. We’ve labored exhausting for this, from a relegation battle when Moyes first got here in to getting in Europe final 12 months.
‘Not having the largest of squads this season, quite a lot of query marks over how far we’re going to go and what we’re going to do, but we’re nonetheless up there within the Premier League and into the quarter-finals. So there’s a giant buzz across the place!’
Rice revealed that his ankle was inflicting him some hassle after the sport, which might make him a doubt for Sunday’s large conflict with Spurs, whereas David Moyes has not given the squad Friday off regardless of the gamers asking for a while to revel of their win.
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