West Ham United winger Zavon Hines was delighted to see action in this week's Carling Cup thumping of Manchester United.

Hines was all smiles after making his first-team return in Tuesday's Carling Cup victory.

"It was good to be back and I'm just glad that we won," Hines told WHUTV.

"We don't want to take our foot off the pedal. We're having a good moment at this time - we won on Saturday [against Wigan Athletic] and we won on Tuesday, so we want to continue and beat Sunderland on Sunday. These are good times right now."

Hines had played twice for the reserves before his first-team return, scoring in last week's 2-1 defeat by Chelsea, but he still has work to do before he reaches full match-fitness.

"I'm not 100 per cent fit just yet, but I'm getting there. It has been a long time but it's just part of football, so just deal with it.

"I just want to ease my way back into the squad and then hopefully get into the starting XI when my fitness is up. We'll just have to see how it goes."