Slaven Bilic has said his players ‘cannot wait’ for their upcoming home games at the London Stadium following their hard earned 2-0 victory over Huddersfield Town on Monday night.
The Hammers – playing their first game at home of the season following the London Stadium playing host to the World Athletics Championships – came out victorious over David Wagner’s then undefeated Huddersfield thanks to late second half goals from Pedro Obiang and Andre Ayew.
The three points were the first of the Hammer season after enduring a difficult start, and following the victory boss Slaven Bilic believes his players now cannot wait for their next games at their new home.
“This is becoming and it has already become our home,” Bilic said in the Independent. “We cannot wait to play here again. That is the situation now, we feel it is our home. It will never be Upton Park, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be our home.
“I really have a feeling, and I see the players, we trained here yesterday and the day before, we like it more and more.”
The Hammers first take on Bolton Wanderers next week in the Carabao Cup third round, before welcoming Spurs to the London Stadium on September 23 and Swansea a week later for back-to-back home fixtures, and after a string of impressive results at home, Bilic believe his side can keep up that good form.
“That can only come with good results and good individual performances, and good memories from the games, especially those games, the big ones. We won recently a few big ones, like Swansea, Spurs and tonight, that is why I am positive.”
