Thursday 28 February 2013

Hammers wary of relegation threat: McDonald

West Ham assistant manager Neil McDonald has spoken to the press ahead of this weekend’s big match at Stoke.

In an honest interview, he admitted that the club are looking over their shoulders and are taking the threat of relegation seriously.

When asked if he was concerned about relegation, McDonald told the assorted press: "Of course we are. We've always looked up the table this season and we've always tried to get into the top ten and with a good result on Saturday we can push ourselves a little bit closer to that.

"I think the away form hasn't been as good as we'd have liked. I think our home form has been really, really good, even though we've lost a couple. We have to address that, we've got to be a little tighter and a bit more physical away from home and make sure we try and keep a clean sheet. And if we can do that, that gives us a good chance to get back to winning ways on our travels."

The task will be made tougher on Saturday with captain Kevin Nolan and key players Mark Noble and James Tomkins all set to miss out, but McDonald went on to say that West Ham took positives from the game against Spurs and they can use those to push on against a tough Stoke side.

By Lucy Woolford

@lucy_whufc

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