West Ham United boss David Moyes is delighted with the progress of Declan Rice.

The midfielder will start tonight against Liverpool.

"He's now someone who is physically much better: he's much quicker, much stronger. And he has a better understanding. I think he's learning under Mark Noble the leadership side of it. He was a quiet boy when I first came to the club, but he's developing a good personality. He's got a lot of things to do better but as a young boy he's doing very well," Moyes told Sky Sports.

"So many of the young boys these days are looking to be improved by coaches but quite often it's your own self development as a player. You have to develop yourself, you have to understand, you have to pick things up very quickly and not always rely on you coaches to be your guide.

“Many of the great players got into a team and had to find their own way to do things. Declan's doing that himself. He is self-developing - and he's doing an awful lot of things which prove why he's getting into Gareth Southgate's England squads."