West Ham manager Sam Allardyce believes his players performed close to their best after thrashing Watford 4-0 at Vicarage Road.

The Hammers recorded consecutive away wins for the first time in four years and climbed up to third in the Championship table.

Allardyce said: "We’ve got everything right tonight and for me it’s not often you see all your team play what is probably the best they can play. I hope it can get better but I wouldn’t have thought they can get much better than they got tonight.

“When you do what we did tonight then confidence flows back into the players. You play football to win matches.

"When you win football matches they’re happy and when you lose then you get sad and lose confidence very quickly. In the same mode you breed confidence when you breed a winning mentality.

"Winning games in the way we did tonight can do a lot for that winning mentality. At this early stage of the season I hope it’s started already and it continues. I’m not quite sure yet but I hope it does."