West Ham Boss Hails Moses

West Ham United winger Dimitri Payet has admitted that he and his teammates are continuing to grow in confidence following their impressive start to the season. “It is a competition where we know we have a chance”, the former Croatia boss told a pre-match press conference.

Manchester City’s 100 per cent record went up in smoke on Saturday night.

The Chilean was furious after his side were beaten 2-1 by West Ham, just days after losing to Juventus by the same score, reports the Manchester Evening News.

Victor Moses gave the visitors and early 1-0 lead, striking home a long-range effort in the 6th minute.

De Bruyne, City’s best player, sparked hope of a revival with a well-taken goal just before the interval but the hosts, without the injured David Silva, could not make any more of their 27 shots count on the scoreboard.

“It is great for the club and I am so happy for everyone at West Ham, but especially for the players because you can not win here without playing well”, africanFootball.com quoted Bilic as saying on the club’s official website. The Citizens won their opening five matches but have lost back-to-back games this week, creating worries and concerns for the Etihad dugout. The east Londoners rise to second in the Premier League with 12 points while City remain top on 15 points. Maybe our last pass wasn’t good but we didn’t play badly.

“I wouldn’t necessarily say (we’re winning away) easily, but it’s true that we’ve got a defensive unit that’s tough to budge”.

“It is a surprise”, Bilic said.

“We conceded two easy goals and that maybe was one of the reasons why we didn’t win”. We were still winning the game.

He has played every game so far in the absence of Pablo Zabaleta and said: “We have a big squad with quality players”.

“There are going to be ups and downs, we are not Real Madrid, but it is looking very good now”.

Diafra Sakho added a second on the half-hour mark, before Kevin De Bruyne reduced the arrears on the stroke of half time, but City failed to find an equaliser after the break.