Aaron Cresswell: 'David Moyes has improved our work ethic'

By Daniel Lewis, Senior Reporter | 08 December 2017

Cresswell: 'Moyes improving our work ethic'

West Ham United defender Aaron Cresswell can see clear positives from David Moyes's first month in charge of the club, despite some underwhelming results.

Aaron Cresswell has admitted that he is hopeful the hard work will pay off as West Ham United attempt to pull clear of the Premier League relegation zone.

A change of manager has yet to bring a change of fortunes for the Hammers, as new boss David Moyes has collected one point from a possible 12 since replacing Slaven Bilic.

Cresswell believes that he and his teammates are improving by the week under Moyes, however, with the Scotsman instilling a strong work ethic on the training ground and threatening to leave out those who do not live up to standards.

"Organisation is the key to everything, running, work ethic, and he's certainly brought that since he's come through the door," Cresswell told Sky Sports News. "Whenever a new manager comes in, it doesn't matter for what reason it is, the tempo in training, the games, the running stats go up. That's happened at our place, but we haven't picked up the points we'd like, and we need to do that sooner rather than later.

"For the position we're in now, it's not about enjoying it, you've got to do the gritty things, the hard things, and he certainly works on that. It's work ethic. Especially when you're down in the relegation zone. You can have the best players in the world, but if you don't work hard you won't win games. He has emphasised that if you don't run, you won't play, and the lads have took to it.

"It's improving us. It has been really tough, and we know it hasn't been good enough from day one. We know it's only us who can turn this around. The manager has come in, has belief, and we just need those points. We played Man City, and we sort of took something from the game, even though we lost we dug deep and felt we deserved a point out of it.

"You look at the start we had, it was really poor, but on the other hand we've been in some good positions and lost or drew the games, for example against Palace and Burnley. There's four points straight away. There's still 23 games to go, and we still need to pick points up."

Cresswell is in line to start for West Ham when they welcome Chelsea to the London Stadium on Saturday afternoon.