West Ham goalkeeper Adrian says that the club are gutted to lose some of their star players to injury, but insists that the Hammers have a squad good enough to cope with the ever-growing list of absentees.
Dimitri Payet and Diafra Sakho will not play again before the New Year while Enner Valencia is set to miss a few more weeks of action but the Spanish shot-stopper says there are other players available to Slaven Bilic who are more than capable of filling the void left by the injuries.
Speaking to the Evening Standard, the 28-year-old said:
It was disappointing for everybody to miss good players like Dimitri Payet and Diafra Sakho but I think we have a good squad. We have some players on the bench that can play in the starting eleven like Mauro Zarate, [Manuel] Lanzini, [Nikica] Jelavic and Andy [Carroll]. We have many players in attack this season and I have confidence in all of them.
West Ham travel to Old Trafford this weekend to take on a Manchester Untied who, despite sitting in third place in the Premier League, have been receiving criticism for the tactics and style of play that manager Louis van Gaal has been using in recent weeks, and Adrian is confident that the Hammers can travel to Manchester and return with three points.
We have plenty of confidence going to play there and I think we can show a great performance and get a good result. We are playing well but sometimes we are a bit unlucky and it was the same against West Brom last weekend. I believe we can get good results if we are playing to our top level and we concentrate on ourselves.
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