Ed: Hard To Understand

Edouard Cisse insists the players have to turn things around quickly - but admits that answers to the current plight are hard to come by.

"It is a team game and we all concede a goal as a collective mistake - but it is not good for us to keep making them," says Edouard, reflecting on the 4-1 loss at Aston Villa at the weekend.

"We train hard but make the same mistakes and it is hard for us or the manager to know what to do.

"Glenn is not on the pitch. He loves West Ham and he puts his trust in us but now he is really disappointed because we keep making errors.

"It is so difficult to understand, but sometimes in football you don't have answers. We play really well in one game or more then we play s***.

"If you make mistakes in the Premiership you get punished - but we have to try to find those answers really quickly, even though we keep saying 'maybe the next game'.

"With 15 games gone we have to get the solution, because the gaffer deserves to be in a better position as he is a nice guy who works hard.

"We are the players and we are the ones that have to do it."

The pain of defeat was exacerbated, for Edouard, by it following on from a good performance against Manchester United the week before, and he adds: "We were really disappointed because after Manchester United we wanted to have a really good game against Aston Villa, but we lost, conceding four goals, and making the same mistakes.

"After the second goal against us we got it to 2-1 and then it became 3-1 from a mistake - and it was difficult to pull it back from there.

"We tried to play and created three or four good occasions to score, but their goalkeeper made good saves and it was very difficult."

One of those saves was from Edouard himself, still searching for his first Hammers goal in 10 starts out of the 17 games played so far this campaign.

"The goalkeeper made a good save and I am sure that if I had scored it would have been a different game, at 1-1 another game," he admits.

"But we didn't take our chances and they scored their third really quickly."