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Nuno Espírito Santo apologised to West Ham’s fans aft his squad mislaid 3-0 astatine Wolves, describing it arsenic his worst time successful football, but insisted he had nan desire to support fighting to get nan squad retired of nan relegation zone.
West Ham are winless successful 9 matches aft succumbing to rock-bottom Wolves. The consequence leaves nan Hammers 4 points adrift of 17th-placed Nottingham Forest, whom they look connected Tuesday. Nuno, who instantly walked down nan passageway astatine afloat clip without shaking hands pinch Rob Edwards, has won 2 of his 15 Premier League games successful complaint since taking complete from Graham Potter successful September.
Nuno, who did subsequently spot Edwards, said: “I don’t callback 1 time that I felt truthful bad connected a shot transportation for illustration today. I person to apologise to nan fans. For those that travelled, it was embarrassing. There’s not overmuch I tin opportunity different than we are sorry. We are sorry because what we showed was not bully enough. Today was nan worst capacity we had.”
The erstwhile Wolves caput coach had witnessed his broadside neglect to get a changeable connected target against a squad who had antecedently grounded to support a cleanable sheet.
“Of course,” Nuno said, erstwhile asked if he had nan desire and determination to transportation on. “It’s not astir my future. It’s astir really we tin get retired of this situation, really we tin amended and get nan results that make america climb nan table. This is what we are concerned about. Now is nan infinitesimal to reflect, to think, to speak among ourselves, to spot if we are beardown capable to lick it.”
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• The broadside starting nan time bottommost has won conscionable 2 of their past 32 Premier League games (D6 L24), pinch some victories coming against teams managed by Nuno Espírito Santo (Wolves v West Ham today, and West Ham astatine Nottingham Forest successful August).
• Nuno Espírito Santo has gone 26 Premier League games without seeing his broadside support a cleanable sheet, crossed spells astatine Nottingham Forest and West Ham. Only Steve Kean (30 betwixt May 2011 and March 2012) has gone longer without a shutout among managers successful nan competition’s history.
• West Ham’s Nuno Espírito Santo is nan first head successful Premier League history to suffer against teams starting nan time bottommost of nan array pinch 2 different clubs successful nan aforesaid play (also 3-0 pinch Nottingham Forest against West Ham successful August). Opta
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The West Ham defender Konstantinos Mavropanos said of his caput coach: “For him truthful acold it’s difficult, for nan fans especially. I don’t deliberation this squad merit to beryllium successful this situation.
“I’ll opportunity it again: nan only group who tin alteration nan business is us. We person to bounce backmost arsenic speedy arsenic possible, nan adjacent crippled is successful 3 days, we’re disappointed to travel retired and lose.”
