David Moyes had laid down a challenge to his West Ham United ahead of a “very big” Premier League showdown against Nottingham Forest. Speaking about West Ham’s current predicament after just one league in in 11 matches,
David Moyes said: “They’ve been here before. I think most of them will know how to handle it (being in the relegation zone). I have not even thought about it yet but I do know I will be looking to see the players and to see the colour of their eyes in this next week. You can imagine what the colour of mine will be. The players have been challenged now. Let’s see who’s up for the fight.”
Asked how big the Forest game now is,
David Moyes replied: “Very big, very big. Every game is big, today’s was big, every game is big. If you’re trying to make the word big sound bigger than it should be, I don’t know if I can do that. Ultimately, we treat every game with the same level, but I totally get your message.”
Giving his assessment of the Hammers’ performance against Tottenham,
David Moyes said: “I think there was some good stuff in the first half and I enjoyed watching us, I thought we did OK. Start of the second half we started poorly, slowly, made a couple of mistakes that we got away with, and I think we gave Tottenham encouragement to come on to us a bit more. It’s a poor defeat for us. We expected to try and get something from the game, but a couple of defensive lapses in the end were probably the difference. I’m trying to find ways of getting more goals, more shots, more attempts at goal. Jarrod Bowen has a half-chance after they score where we could have maybe made it 1-1 and maybe started to change the look of it, but we’re not making enough chances. We keep going. We’ve been feeling a bit better about our performances, and even today, there’ll be lots of things you’ll say wasn’t good, which I’ll agree with, but there’s bits of it I want to build on. They have been challenged, let’s see who’s up for the fight.”
