Saturday 17 September 2016 19:11, UK
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic has said he and his players let their club down after losing 4-2 away at West Bromich Albion.
The Croatian manager was speaking after West Ham's third successive defeat in the Premier League this season, having also lost 4-2 against Watford just the week before.
At one point in Saturday's game, hosts West Brom were 4-0 up, after adding a fourth goal early on in the second half to the three they had already racked up in the first.
Bilic said he was "very embarrassed" by the Hammer's performance, despite the fact they managed to claw back two goals later on in the second half.
"Crazy game. It was a crazy game. It was a great game for them. They deserved to win the game," he said.
"Going forward in the first half it was just poor position without creating many chances. But in the second half we showed good football and we dominated the second half.
"The problem is you can't expect anything from the game when you are 3-0 down and make so many mistakes both as a team and individually.
"I felt very embarrassed myself and I'm sure the players too because we let the club down."
West Ham are currently languishing in 17th place in the Premier League table, having only achieved one win this season at home to Bournemouth.
Bilic said work would need to be done if his side were going to achieve anything close to their seventh place finish in the 2015/2016 season.
"I said we can live with the Man City defeat and we can live with the Astra defeat because we had eight players injured but this is now a second week in a row that we haven't played as good as you have to play, like we did last year," he explained.
"The problem is I wouldn't say huge. But the problem is it happened again. We have to be aware of the situation and we have to act."
