Djair Parfitt-Williams, West Ham United’s development squad striker, said it felt amazing to score the winner in his team’s 1-0 win over Hull City in the Barclays Under-21 Premier League Cup final first leg on Monday.

Returning from a long layoff following a knee injury, the Bermudian player scored a last-minute winner after coming on as a second-half substitute.

He tapped home from close range to send the 10,000 fans inside Upton Park for its final, into raptures.

The goal gave the 19-year-old Parfitt-Williams a great deal of pleasure, too.

“It felt amazing. It was the 90th minute and it was 0-0 for the whole game before that so to score in the last minute, especially at Upton Park with a lot of fans here, felt amazing,” said the youngster yesterday on the club’s website.

Parfitt-Williams is the Hammers’ top goalscorer in the competition and was delighted to add to his tally with such an important strike.

“We created some good chances,” he said. “I think we could have played a little bit quicker at times in the first half, but in the second half we started to break them down a little bit more and looked quite dangerous.

“It’s a good achievement [to score] but to get this far is about my team-mates and my coaches and everything.”

Parfitt-Williams scored in the previous cup wins against Exeter, Fulham and Blackburn Rovers and added his fourth in the competition with a real poacher’s effort.

On Monday night Parfitt-Williams swept in Doneil Henry’s headed flick on from Grady Diangana’s free kick from close range.

“I guess I’m in the right place at the right time,” he said. “That’s what the one was tonight. I was in a good position.

“I knew if I stayed in the middle of the box, Josh [Cullen] would clip it in far post and I knew Reece [Oxford] or Doneil [Henry] would get it back across. I stayed in a good position.”

West Ham will carry the slim lead into next week’s second leg of the final at the KC Stadium and Parfitt-Williams is confident they can complete the job.

“We’re confident to go anywhere and beat anybody, as we have such a good team,” he said.

“One-nil definitely gives us a good mood in training and we should be confident going into the second leg.”