Mark Noble says West Ham United’s players have to remain optimistic despite suffering a heavy defeat to Watford last Saturday.
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Manuel Lanzini had earlier attempted to use the same mischievous technique to fire an effort on goal for the hosts.
After leading 2-0, the Irons quickly slipped behind, with the Hornets piling on four goals to claim a 4-2 win.
‘You see that in the playground with six- and seven-year-olds and we are grown men.
“I can appreciate things like that, but when you’re still in the first half, I think it’s a little bit disrespectful to us”.
Odion Ighalo pulled a goal back for the visitors before half-time, and Watford had a commanding two goal lead after 64 minutes when Jose Holebas scored.
The pick of the bunch was Deeney’s inch-perfect lob of Adrian that punished a mix-up between the goalkeeper and James Collins. In previous games we deserved better results but unfortunately they did not come.
“We had other opportunities to kill the game, but we didn’t manage to do that and defensively we made a couple of mistakes”.
“It is important that we recognise the vast majority who have attended the first five fixtures played at London Stadium have been outstanding with their behaviour and support”.
“West Ham unreservedly condemn the behavior of the individuals involved in incidents during today’s fixture against Watford”, West Ham said in a statement.
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And Dave Sullivan Jr, the son of the co-owner, tweeted: “We were being verbally abused by our fans whilst stewards stood and did nothing. After the second goal it was confidence”, Bilic said. “It was way too early for us to switch off, it wasn’t like it was the 85th minute”.
