West Ham’s depressing Premier League marketing campaign continued with a defeat at Leeds on Friday which ensured their worst begin to a season for 52 years.

The outcome was their third consecuitve defeat underneath new supervisor Nuno Espirito Santo, who stays winless since changing Graham Potter in September.

The Hammers, who sit nineteenth within the desk, have recorded only one win this season and sarcastically it arrived in opposition to Nottingham Forest, when Nuno was in cost on the Metropolis Floor.

A dismal return of simply 4 factors in whole represents West Ham’s joint-worst at this stage of a league marketing campaign, with the membership replicating that tally within the second tier in 1932-33 and 1973-74, after they completed backside.

Having been appointed with the duty of creating certain West Ham do not endure a relegation that would go away them exterior the highest flight for the primary time since 2011-12, Nuno, who took some extent in his first match in opposition to Everton, is struggling to seek out solutions.

“There’s many issues in our membership sadly. It’s not as much as us to cover ourselves behind the issues. Everybody must be alive and to do rather more and be in the best place,” mentioned the Portuguese.

“We weren’t coping with our defensive conditions and I felt like we would have liked a striker to carry the ball, so possibly that is not the best from me.

“These type of errors are unacceptable within the Premier League.”

Nuno, additionally the primary West Ham boss to fail to file a win from any of his first 4 Premier League video games since Manuel Pellegrini in September 2018, added: “There’s high quality there, there’s time, however nothing will occur if we do not change.

“We should change our angle, we should change the best way we method issues, we should commit ourselves higher, put together higher, work more durable.

“All of the issues – that’s the actuality. We do not anticipate issues to alter by themselves. Realising now we have time generally is a mistake if we do not change issues round shortly.”