West Ham boss Slaven Bilic has said that he is remaining cautious with his injury prone striker Andy Carroll.

The 26-year-old made his comeback from a long injury layoff this month and since then he has made three substitute appearances for Hammers. He also scored the winner in the 2-1 win against Chelsea last week.

"At the beginning it was six weeks individual training, then for a couple of weeks he was training twice with us and then one day with the physio," said the Croatian.

"Now he is back. Okay, we are still a little bit cautious because of the injury that he had, but now we have to stop him from training. We have to tell him 'right, the last bit of the training you have to rest' because he loves football.

"I don't know him from the past but he is a lad that would like to play five-a-side or finishing or whatever.

"He loves to train and when he trains he goes in 100 per cent, so sometimes we have to stop him."