'I'm pretty confident we can turn it around'
West Ham boss Graham Potter told BBC Sport after Monday night's defeat to Newcastle: "It ebbed and flowed a bit. We had a good start and they came back into it. Then we had some good opportunities. There wasn't much in it. We didn't do enough to win the game but we could have got something out of it."The goal was disappointing, we felt there was a push on Max."It's two hands on the back. It's a push. You can see from Isak's non celebration he thinks it's a push. Clear for us but I'm not VAR."We were playing against a really physical man-to-man defence. The players were doing their best. We'd like things to be more progressive but you have to credit the opposition."It just wasn't our day today. We had some opportunities. We had our moments, we could have been better with the ball."On what has changed since he has come in: "You have to look at what the situation was. We were conceding a lot of goals. We tried to stabilise things. Overall the attitude and commitment was really strong. "We just need to carry on improving our attacking play. It's not easy to do it at mid-season but I'm pretty confident we can turn it around."Did you know? West Ham have failed to win any of the 15 Premier League games this season where they have conceded the first goal (D4 L11).
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