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West Ham boss Bilic tells his players: You're responsible for this

West Ham boss Slaven Bilic apologised to fans after their thrashing by Arsenal.

Alexis Sanchez dominated the 5-1 scoreline with a hat-trick.

Bilic said: “I'm very disappointed, I feel frustrated and humiliated to be fair and I must say sorry to the fans, the Club and everyone who has anything to do with West Ham United because it was really bad.

“Maybe the result [was unfair], if you look at the spells of the game, there were moments when we were alive until the last 20 minutes, but you can't say they didn't deserve it.

"I said it to the players – be responsible for this, because somewhere down the line, from pre-season onwards, we lost our intensity in training.

“We don't do it in every training, we do it occasionally, and that's why we can't do it over 90 minutes in the games. We have to bring it back because we can't rely only on quality. Every team in this league has enough quality, but if you don't have intensity on the level that is required, like we don't have it at the moment, this is the reflection."

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