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Bilic: I will turn this around
- Updated: September 18, 2016
Slave Bilic has vowed to improve West Ham’s defensive displays after they conceded four goals for a second week in a row against West Brom on Saturday.
The Hammers manager had already spent the week before working on his side’s resilience but apparently with no success as West Ham lost their third successive Premier League game.
West Brom’s Nacer Chadli, on his home debut, Salomon Rondon and James McClean scored before half-time and Chadli grabbed his second goal of the game to put the Baggies 4-0 in front after 56 minutes.
“I have to do everything as the manager to turn this around, that’s my job,” said Bilic, who saw his team reply with two goals in the space of four minutes just after the hour mark through Michail Antonio and Manuel Lanzini, from the penalty spot.
“We will go over it again – we can’t concede so many goals. It is fundamentally defending as a team and if you add individual mistakes, it becomes too much. I mean, we’ve conceded 13 goals from the start of the season and that’s simply too many.”
Bilic was particularly frustrated when West Brom …