Andy Carroll hopes his impressive two goals will persuade Roy Hodgson that he deserves an England recall this summer. Carroll has endured a difficult time since he joined on loan from Liverpool last August, but the 24-year-old looked back to his best, terrorising the Albion defence in front of the national manager.

Carroll, who has nine caps to his name, powered a header past Ben Foster to put his team ahead and then scored an exquisite volley, watching James Collins's long ball down on to his right boot before firing home first time, to seal the win after Gary O'Neil's strike.

The striker featured heavily in England's European Championship campaign but a drop in form and fitness meant he was excluded from the World Cup qualifiers against San Marino and Montenegro. But he now hopes he can repeat the kind of performance he showed on Saturday so he can persuade Hodgson to include him in his squad for the summer friendlies against the Republic of Ireland and Brazil.

"I hope to play in every game for England but I haven't been picked so I've just got to work hard here at West Ham and hopefully I'll be involved next time," said Carroll.

The West Ham manager, Sam Allardyce, underlined his desire to keep the player beyond the end of the season, when his loan is due to expire. Carroll has struggled to live up to his billing, both at Liverpool and West Ham, as a £35m striker, but the way in which he terrorised Jonas Olsson was reminiscent of the kind of bruising display he used to put in every week for Newcastle.

Andy Carroll, the West Ham striker, hopes he can repeat the kind of performance he showed against West Bromwich Albion. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Action Images

He now hopes he has proved a few of his doubters wrong. "I was putting myself about and got two goals, so that's what I like to think I'm about," he said. "Obviously I like to score goals, so getting two shows that I've got it. I'm feeling good with the lads and everyone is coming together and we're playing well at home. It was a great win. The lads worked hard and I got my two goals and we got the three points, so it was a great day."

Despite other results going against them, West Ham are now all but safe. Two points from their remaining eight games should be enough. "With the number of games they have left they were never a team I thought were candidates for relegation," said Albion's manager, Steve Clarke. "There are teams further down the league who have more cause to be nervous than West Ham."

A first-half save from Romelu Lukaku's free-kick aside, Jussi Jaaskelainen had next to nothing to do until he picked Graham Dorrans's penalty out of the net in the dying minutes. Clarke was annoyed at his team's lax marking for all three goals, but backed the team to recover.

"The defending was the most disappointing thing," said the man who was West Ham's assistant manager for two years. "Normally we defend well so to concede two goals in the manner we did is disappointing. The goals we conceded were poor. It's something we have to address and rectify. We have not had this feeling too many times so we have to dust ourselves down and bounce back next week against Arsenal."

Clarke will hold talks with midfielder Youssouf Mulumbu on Monday after he was sent off in injury time for booting the ball at O'Neil. "He probably did it out of frustration," Clarke said.