“It is very hard to explain three of their four goals – you can’t make errors like that at this level”, he was quoted as saying by the BBC.
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Bilic will be without Mauro Zarate, who picked up a hamstring injury in training and joins fellow forwards Andy Carroll and Enner Valencia (both knee) on the sidelines. On two goals you’ve got confidence anyway so I’m happy that it went in. The midfield was also well-drilled, but it was up front where the Cherries shined, thanks to Wilson’s clinical and riotous performance alongside Max Gradel’s display on the wing.
“I am under pressure”, Bilic said. We got ourselves back in it at 2-2 and the crowd is with us at home, and then we made another mistake and they scored again. They were a bit unlucky.
“I feel I have no option but to address the inaccurate, misleading and uninformed innuendo”. Their first idea is always to pass the ball. It happened once. When I played in Germany we beat Valencia 7-0 in the UEFA Cup, but it was once. OK, they are a good team who got promoted and to be fair it could have been worse at 2-0 down.
The Hammers boss was under no illusions that Eddie Howe’s side deserved the win, but is now more generally concerned with the nature of what was a second consecutive home defeat.
“When you consider the chances we created against Aston Villa and the positive aspects of our play against Liverpool, we’re certainly not downbeat”.
“The one thing we said before the game was don’t start like we did last week, and yet we did”, he said. So of course there is a frustration, but even stronger is a willingness to put it right.
Former West Ham manager Sam Allardyce says he still does not know what the “West Ham way” is.
Bournemouth survived a scare to take their first win and points of the season away at West Ham this afternoon.
Bournemouth have not won any of their previous five competitive meetings with the Hammers (D2 L3).
The win is the Cherries’ first ever in the Premier League and it’s a game that will live long in the memory for the Dorset club’s fans.
Mark Noble has been fouled 10 times in the opening two matchdays of the 2015-16 season; three more times than any other player.
The 27-year-old Cameroonian midfielder spent last season on loan at Upton Park 31 appearances in all compeititions.
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Poor West Ham keeper Randolph, deputising for the suspended Adrian, was making his Premier League debut for the club after his summer move from Birmingham.
