Carroll can’t wait to put things right

Andy Carroll suffered a bitter sweet 90 minutes against Hull, scoring his 50th premier League goal, captaining the team for the first time but finally seeing the team slump to defeat.

And he readily admitted that when the hosts changed their shape at half time the Hammers simply couldn’t handle things very well.

He said:  “Obviously it’s nice to get to 50 Premier League goals, but it’s the three points that we’re really after. At the end of the day we didn’t get them, so it’s disappointing.

“They came out and changed the formation at half-time. We didn’t really get a grip of it and lost our shape. We could have finished the game off, but didn’t. They took advantage and scored two.”

He added: “It was great to have the armband. Obviously we want our captain playing, but he picked up niggle in the week.

“The gaffer gave it to me and I’m happy with that, but at the end of the day it means nothing if you don’t get the results.

“For the lads we just want to bounce back. It couldn’t be any quicker than Wednesday against Arsenal. All the lads will be looking forward to putting this right.”