Callum Marshall's season just keeps getting better as the teenager helped fire West Ham to the FA Youth Cup final.
The former Linfield man bagged his 20th goal of the season to put the Hammers 2-0 against Southampton in Thursday night's semi-final at the London Stadium in front of a crowd of almost 7,000.
It was a great night for Kevin Keen's side as they ran out 6-1 winners in the end and will now face Arsenal in the final at the Emirates on Saturday 29 April.
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"I'm tired but over the moon," Marshall told the West Ham media after the game.
"It was a great performance. There was a big build up to the game and I was a bit nervous when we turned up, but I don't think we could have done much more.
"Kev is really big on blocking out the outside noise and just focusing on what we have to do.
"We settled down after the first five minutes, it was our first time playing at the London Stadium for most of us anyway, we played our football and got the result we needed."
Divin Mubama fired the hosts in front in the 11th minute before Marshall doubled their lead two minutes later.
Mubama completed his hat-trick in the second half with further goals coming from Gideon Kodua and Favour Fawunmi completing the rout.
"The first goal from Divin settled us and then I managed to get my goal," said Marshall.
"I had planned to do a celebration but that went out the window as soon as I scored.
"I just went over and did a knee slide in front of them, it was a brilliant feeling."
Former Coleraine man Patrick Kelly returned to the Hammers line-up while another Northern Irish man, Josh Briggs was on the bench.
"I think everyone played their part, it's a brilliant win," said Marshall.
"I think the defeat at the weekend toughened us up a bit and made us aware of what could happen.
"That was our talk at half-time. At this age group no lead is guaranteed, we made sure we got the next goal and went on from there."
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