Pablo Zabaleta knows that nothing is impossible in football – even beating Manchster City.
After spending nine years at the club and having won two Premier League titles he now comes face to face with former teammates including Aguero and Silva.
And he told www.whufc.com about the chance of facing his former club saying: “It’s special, but it is hard as well because I know most of the lads.
When you play against some former teammates it’s difficult, but now I am a West Ham player and I want West Ham to win the game.
“We will try to do everything we can to make it happen, it’s going to be tough of course, as we are going to be playing against the best team in the league. Nothing is impossible in football, we have to believe.
“Defensively we need to be solid, but also, we need to believe that we have the quality in the team to hurt them and hopefully we can be clinical enough to take our chances.”
Zaba added: “We are West Ham, we have the quality to beat anybody, but as I say it’s a game where we need to make sure we play the perfect game.
It means we can’t make any individual mistakes, tactically we have to be really good, we have to be aggressive when defending and not give too much space to the attackers.
“Then we have to try to attack, because defensively sometimes you see chances because they play a high line and you can see space in behind. So, maybe with someone like Marko Arnautovic who is quick, and we know this, we can create chances and score goals.”
ClaretandHugh’s view: Don’t you just have to love Zaba. Even in seemingly impossible situations the guy comes across a believer. Those words: ‘We are West Ham, and have the quality to beat anybody” are precisely what we need to hear on the eve of the toughest match of the season. Zaba talks like a future manager and personally I would love to see him wearing the armband tomorrow in a game which may be his last against the club he served so well for nine years. I still can’t believe we will get anything from the game but at least Zaba’s words at the very least have me wondering and hoping for the first time and that’s exactly what you want from your experienced players. He’s been there and done it – been involved in some big results and who knows, listening to him leaves the impression that November 24, 2018 might just be another. COYI