Adrian: We need to be solid and together to get the points

Adrian

Adrian says the positivity of his West Ham United teammates could be crucial as they head to Leicester City on Saturday.

The Hammers make the trip to the King Power Stadium knowing they are still in need of points to secure Premier League safety and the No13 is in no mood to hang about collecting them.

With three games left to play in the campaign’s final week, Adrian knows victory on Saturday would reduce the stress on the final two, so three points is all he has his mind on.

“Our spirit will help us over the last three games,” he said. “We have to be together and we have to be solid as a team, defending and attacking. We have to finish well, we have to get some good points as soon as possible, and we have to be a football team [to do that].

“We need to go back to the beginning, back to the basics. Defend well as a team, and then attack quickly on the counter attack as we did in the first games under the manager.

“We expect a hard game. Leicester had a bad game last time, like us, and we have to learn from that. If we do well as we did before this run, we can get a good result.

“Our aim is to be safe as soon as possible, and if we can get the win at Leicester, then we can look to finish as high as possible. The first thing is getting three points and Leicester is the first game. We will go there to win.

“I’m probably one of the most positive people here, but we are all positive! We are all focused on Saturday’s game because we know we need the three points.”

As well maintaining as a positive mindset, Adrian says the Hammers will learn from the defensive errors which contributed to their defeats against Arsenal and Manchester City in their last two games.

He added: “We have to learn the lessons on our defensive shape. We gave away easy goals, and we have to do better from the strikers right through to the defenders and goalkeeper.

“We have to learn from this and stop conceding easy goals. We need to be ready to keep the clean sheet first, score the first goal and then be able to defend the result.”