West Ham manager Sam Allardyce was pleased to see his heavily changed side beat Burnley on Tuesday night in the Capital One Cup.

'Big Sam' made nine changes to his Hammers side from the one that drew 0-0 with Swansea City on Sunday.

And despite a slow start, the London side eventually sealed their place in Round 5 of the competition due to goals from Matt Taylor and Jack Collison. Allardyce admitted he was delighted to see his faith in his squad pay off, and to progress to the next round of the tournament.

"I told everybody after the Swansea match that we would change the team in terms of the players we would need to use to make sure we had enough fresh legs to cope with a very difficult game," Allardyce told the club's official website.

"Burnley are top of the Championship and they beat QPR comfortably 2-0 on Saturday. We played on Sunday afternoon at four o'clock and got back late on Sunday night, so it would have been ridiculous of me not to use the players who were fit, eager and raring to go and remiss of me not to play some of the Under-21s who are top of their league and test them at this level.

"Getting the result means I've done my job the right way and that's what I'm paid to do and have to do, irrespective of what everybody from outside West Ham says in terms of what needs to be done.

"The players have paid me back in terms of what needs to be done because the first half wasn't very clever. We had to reshuffle and the defence was there again. We've now played six games away from home and conceded just one goal, and even that was from a penalty that wasn't a penalty."

The Hammers will now turn their attention back to the Premier League, with Aston Villa travelling to the Boleyn Ground on Saturday.

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