Clichy seeks Man City improvement in wake of West Ham draw

Alex Song was just off-target with a long-range effort as West Ham continued to trouble City, who brought on Raheem Sterling and Kelechi Iheanacho in an attempt to reverse the momentum.

Manchester City left-back Gael Clichy has admitted his side need to do more after drawing 2-2 with West Ham on Saturday.

City has just one win in eight games on the road – the type of form that contributes to Manuel Pellegrini’s side being three points behind leader Leicester.

Aguero calmly sent Adrian the wrong way from the spot, before a miserable day for Jenkinson got worse as he came off with an injury, giving Sam Byram, signed last week from Leeds United, an earlier than expected debut. “But that’s good – that shows how well we played”.

When asked on the influential play of Payet, he said: “It’s not a surprise for us because we see everyday in training”.

“It’s very important for him (Aguero) to be 100 percent fit”, Pellegrini said.

“When he comes back from injury he always needs two or three games to return to his best performance”, the Chilean coach told reporters.

“It was not what we wanted before the game”. “It did help me that I trained fully for a couple of weeks, but I know I can get better and will do over the coming games”. I hope now that he is 100 per cent fit and he does not have any problems.

“It is very hard to play like he did today on a weekly basis but he’s played like that since the beginning of the season”, Bilic said.

The ball was carelessly allowed to bounce into the area by Otamendi and Valencia got ahead of the defender to poke past Hart.

They were caught out nearly straight from kick-off, as Cheikhou Kouyate exposed the slowness of their defence to set up Valencia for the first.

West Ham United were fast off the blocks as striker Enner Valencia finished off a move by Senegalese midfielder Cheick Kouyate within the first minute of the game, precisely after 53 seconds.

‘Overall our performance was good but the second goal killed us a bit as we were on top of them. We knew before the game he has a long throw-in. “Unfortunately, at that moment we had a distraction”.

But one chant aimed at Aguero and inspired by former West Ham and Manchester City hero Carlos Tevez backfired somewhat.

But If they are without their 15-goal top scorer for another significant period this season City will come up short. They played football. It was great the way Enner Valencia was attacking.