Joe Hart has indicated that Pedro Obiang is facing a lengthy time on the sidelines despite no scan on his his injured knee taking place until tomorrow (Sunday).
And with Arthur Masuaku facing a long spell out for spitting the Hammers look to be in deep trouble as critical Premier League games come upon us.
Hart never flinches from telling it as it is and declared: “Everyone has got to stand up and take responsibility. There’s no hiding with the way the FA Cup and Premier League are covered now, so I’m sure we’ll be pulled to pieces for it, but it is what it is.
“We’re going to have to get the lads focused and wheel them out. It’s very difficult, with what happened with Pedro, and I don’t really want to comment on what happened with Arthur, but they are going to be out for lengthy times, so we’ll have to man up and get with it.”
He added: ““Everything that could have gone wrong went wrong, but I think we’ve only got ourselves to blame with a number of the incidents that have gone on.,
“We conceded early but I don’t think that’s a good enough excuse. You go one-nil down, you pick yourself up and get back in the game. It’s a cup game and you keep fighting.
“It goes without saying that we didn’t take our chances to impress. It’s very disappointing on my behalf, because I want to perform and losing two-nil at Wigan is difficult, so I’m struggling for positives.”
But then Fonte is due back. Cresswell can move to LWB. There will be new arrivals this week & Obiang has been up & down this season. I am more worried about where the goals will come from. But that must make injuries up to 12. With Masuaku out too. You can say bad luck but it is not just that. Trying to scrape by with a thin squad has come back to bite us- as it obviously would. Now we will have to take what we can get. Remember Roger Johnson from 4/5 years ago in the same situatiion? It was a bit more justifiable then a we had not bee named long back in the PL. Who would have thought we would still be in this position after 6 years back?
Joe Hart on his difficulties of finding the Positives….. well Joe, you’ve only got a few more months of this and then you’ll be off somewhere…. China perhaps?