Dimitri Payet poetry in motion for West Ham

Blackburn Rovers 1 West Ham United 5: West Ham manager Slaven Bilic likened playmaker Dimitri Payet to Real Madrid’s Luka Modric after the Frenchman inspired the facile FA Cup win at Blackburn.

Rovers, who played the last 35 minutes with 10 men after Chris Taylor’s sending-off, took the lead from Ben Marshall’s fifth goal in the last six matches, but Victor Moses’ first goal since September 19 — courtesy of an error by goalkeeper Jason Steele — and an exquisite Payet free-kick turned things around before the break.

Emmanuel Emenike added two in the second half and, after Cheikhou Kouyate had seen red, Payet fittingly finished things off, running from halfway for a brilliant individual effort.