BILIC’S BATTLE TO STOP THE ROT
PREMIER LEAGUE Hammers horrors are giving Slav nightmares
SLAVEN BILIC admits he is running out of ideas.
The West Ham boss is under growing pressure after five straight defeats.
And that will be ramped up another big notch if the Hammers crash at home to relegation-threatened Swansea today.
West Ham’s nightmare run has seen them concede 13 goals, dragging them into a scrap for survival they thought they would steer clear of.
Crumbled
Bilic said: “We are conceding way too many goals and not just in the last five games. We either get a clean sheet or we concede more than two or even three.
“We can talk about individual mistakes, but if you have to score more than three goals to get something then you can’t expect to.
“Against Arsenal we crumbled after the first goal. We are solid, then we conceded a goal and then that happens.
“We have changed the system a lot of ® times this season. There is not a lot of time to try them. But we are thinking about that.”
Bilic has chopped and changed his defence all season in a bid to find a winning formula.
Not even the £8m arrival of Southampton skipper Jose Fonte has helped plug the holes in his leaky defence in a campaign that has fallen flat following the Hammers’ move to the London Stadium.
Bilic added: “It’s not do-or-die but it’s a serious situation. Do my players care as much as me? I think they do.
“The expectations this season have been to make a big step up but suddenly we are in a situation where we need points.
“It was going to go down in history as a great season – but it hasn’t.
“Now it’s either going to go down as a negative season or just okay.
“I’ve seen bigger clubs in trouble and then when they stay up they celebrate like hell. But we are not going down.”