West Ham boss Slaven Bilic targets league double over mighty Manchester City Slaven Bilic has hailed Manchester City as the best team in England but the West Ham manager is optimistic his team can beat the Barclays Premier League heavyweights for the second time this season. “Okay, mathematically Spurs can still do it – we can even do it – but realistically it’s between those three clubs”, Bilic said in his column with Standard Sport.
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“It’s very important for him to be 100 per cent fit”.
“I don’t think that is because he played well”.
“We’ve come from behind”.
“I think that our mentality is to be an attacking team”.
On January 23rd, West Ham welcome title challengers Manchester City to Upton Park.
“They’ve been in trouble away from home on a few occasions but it is usually based on tough defending from the opponents”, said Bilic.
“The Premier League is so demanding that you can’t play at 80 per cent. I’ve tried to do that before and that’s when I’ve injured myself”.
They can count themselves unfortunate, having also hit the post twice through Aguero and Fabian Delph.
He is absolutely right and it shows just how good team spirit is in the camp, that someone with the quality of Reid can be left out for a couple of games and not be banging on the manager’s door demanding to be reinstated.
As the first-half wound down, Hart made an exceptional save to touch Dimtri Payet’s free-kick out of the top corner and the keeper conceded it was a moment he savoured.
Away from home, Manchester City haven’t been great with only four wins and only 10 goals scored in 10 games.
West Ham could still have snatched victory had Kouyate’s stoppage-time header from Mark Noble’s free kick not clipped the crossbar.
“I hope we will go for the three points and that we will demonstrate why we’re involved in the title”. So when I went back into dressing room I felt disappointed. In those 23 games there are 11 players that play more minutes [than Aguero].
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Key Player: Sergio Aguero – The Argentine goal machine is always lethal in front of goal. “If we dig deep as a team and be compact and aggressive from the first minute then I have no reason to believe we can not make it into the top six”. But Aguero says they must not what their rivals are doing and concentrate on their own performances if they are to finish top of the Premier League at the end of the season.
