LIVE STREAMING Domzale vs West Ham

West Ham take on Domzale in the first of their Europa League qualification games but will be without summer signing Gokhan Tore who has not been included in the match day squad. “We have done everything that wanted to do, but still we have to make a balance in our preparations to compromise some things because the competitive games don’t start on August 15, they start on Thursday”.

And Bilic admitted they have now changed the type of player they are looking for after being left frustrated in their attempts to land a marquee name.

“They start on Thursday, it’s not ideal but I’m really pleased with the way we’ve trained”.

Opponents Domzale finished third in their domestic league last term and have so far defeated Lusitans of Andorra – who West Ham beat last term – and Belarusian side Shakhtyor Soligorsk to reach the third round.

Carroll scored the first goal, in the Hammers 3-0 victory over the German side, and Carroll said that the side are raring to go into the new season. They can recover and I’d expect them to be much improved next week.

Bilic insists West Ham won’t splash the cash on a big-name striker just for the sake of it.

He told whufc.com: “It was good to get an hour in on Saturday” and was “good to get a goal and our first win of pre-season as well” and that the “results don’t matter at this time of year but it’s obviously still nice to win.” . We had a good enough team to come here and win but we didn’t do that.

“Young defender Reece Oxford has also linked up with the squad after helping England to the semi-finals of UEFA Under-19 Championship in Germany”.

“Did West Ham over achieve last season?”