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Under-pressure West Ham manager Julen Lopetegui says "we are going to alteration the situation" astatine the struggling club.
The Spaniard's aboriginal was debated by elder nine figures aft Tuesday's 3-1 decision astatine Leicester City.
The Hammers are 14th successful the Premier League array and person won conscionable 1 of their past 5 games arsenic they spell into Monday's location crippled with second-bottom Wolves.
Lopetegui near the Wolves occupation soon earlier the commencement of the 2023-24 play aft conscionable 9 months successful charge.
And asked if helium would permission West Ham aft replacing David Moyes successful May, the 58-year-old Spaniard said: "You are talking astir a precise antithetic situation.
"I person large committedness to my work, always, and I americium precise blessed to enactment astatine West Ham. We are going to alteration the situation."
When it was enactment to Lopetegui that helium has 1 crippled to prevention his job, helium replied: "I [am] not reasoning astir this. I [am] reasoning we person 1 precise important situation connected Monday against a bully team.
"We person to beryllium focused to person a bully reply and make our enactment until Monday, to get acceptable to look them and to springiness our fans a bully day.
"I recognize each the things astir shot and I recognize my main purpose and work is to beryllium acceptable for a tough, hard match.
"But successful the aforesaid way, it's a large accidental and situation for america astatine home, to beryllium acceptable to execute the 3 points. That is the astir important thing."
West Ham fans person been frustrated astatine the team's playing benignant nether Lopetegui, who took complaint successful May, and the Hammers person won 4 and mislaid 7 of their 14 league games truthful acold this season.
They person besides mislaid some games since a 2-0 triumph astatine Newcastle and present look a Wolves broadside beaten 4-0 astatine Everton connected Wednesday.
"I don't person thing to accidental against my players," said erstwhile Real Madrid and Spain manager Lopetegui. "I judge the work and the pressure. That's wherefore I americium a coach.
"For sure, we're not blessed and, for sure, the fans are ever right. That's wherefore I think, until now, they springiness america overmuch much than we springiness them.
"We person to alteration this, and we are looking for this."
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