West Ham United midfielder Cheikhou Kouyate has stated that the Hammers must record three points against West Brom in the Premier League this Saturday.
The Hammers are toiling after a poor start to the new campaign that has heralded a solitary win from their opening four league games and elimination from the Europa League.
Slaven Bilic’s men were 2-0 up and cruising against Watford last weekend but relinquished their lead courtesy of some dreadful defending and ended up being beaten by the Hornets 4-2.
Kouyate has stated that lessons had been taken out of the defeat to Walter Mazzarri’s side and that the most important thing was to get back to winning ways against the Baggies this weekend.
“We should have been able to take the three points from the Watford game,” the Senegalese enforcer told the club’s official website.
“We were leading by two goals, we started really well and I think that we were in control.
“Then when we conceded the goal to take it to 2-1 and then so quickly after that they got the equaliser. We went in at half-time with our heads down slightly.
“We tried to pick ourselves up in the second half, but we were unable to do so and these are errors that we will learn from and won’t be committing again in future matches.
“The most important thing for us to do is to go and get the three points when we play West Brom.
“We are in real need of points now. So it doesn’t matter if it is me or one of my colleagues that scores, what will please us the most is for us to go and get all three points and then push on in the league.”
Kouyate has played his way into a position where is a virtual ever-present when fit, with the former Anderlecht midfielder featuring alongside captain Mark Noble in the Hammers boiler room.
