Slav makes a brilliant point on home form

Slaven Bilic has sent Sunderland a reminder they should forget all ideas of the London Stadium creating pressure on West Ham’s players this weekend.

There have been hopeful sounds coming out of Mackems territory that our poor start at the new home should give them reason for encouragement.

But Slav was having none of that and quickly played down the comparison by giving everybody a reminder of last season’s start at Upton Park.

He said: ” We were beaten by Leicester and Bournemouth but we turned things around and made Upton Park a fortress over the rest of the season – we can do that again here.

“The win at Palace has done the confidence so much good. To be fair the spirit and mood was good over the two weeks before- we never stopped talking and working. We were fine.

“But of course there’s nothing like a win to help things and we go into the match looking for a good result.”