West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic has given a scathing overview of his side’s performance in their 4-2 defeat to West Brom on Saturday, admitting that he felt a full array of emotions at The Hawthorns.

The Hammers entered the game in desperate need of a positive result, having lost three of their first four games of the new Premier League season.

A 4-2 defeat at home to Watford a week ago had the alarm bells ringing and the east London outfit did not improve in the fixture in the Midlands.

West Brom came out of the traps the quicker and found themselves 3-0 up before half-time and although the visitors fought back to some degree, West Ham left The Hawthorns with another disappointing result and no points.

Bilic has given his thoughts on the game and admitted that his side need to improve.

“I was angry, disappointed and felt all sorts of emotions – their first goal was totally unnecessary, and the fourth one…” the Croatian told the club’s official website.

“We can’t plan for individual mistakes, but some of them were collective and they created the chance after eight or ten seconds of the game, and that’s what I’m talking about.

“I don’t want to say ‘We’re unlucky’, but we were also unlucky and when it rains, it pours. It’s up to us and we’re letting it happen too much.

“We are playing a little bit slowly, and this wasn’t the first time. We are playing from one side to the other side and letting the opponent get quickly behind the ball and rest for the next situation and hit us on the break, like they did early in the second half.

“OK, though, we were the side that was dominating in the second half and had one in the first half at 1-0 for Antonio, which their ‘keeper saved well. We did more than enough as a team going forward, but we are conceding way too many goals.

“We had 70 per cent of possession but that was misleading, because we know they are a team that don’t have the ball and like to break quickly. There were some good moments and goals in the second half, but we want action and not reaction.

“It is not a good situation for us at the moment and we have a problem that we have to solve. I have to do everything as the manager to turn this around, that’s my job.”

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