Javier Hernandez believes that West Ham United cannot take some teams lightly.

They are attempting to secure a top seven finish, but results such as a 2-0 loss to relegation candidates Cardiff hurts the cause.

And Hernandez admits there may be a case of complacency when the Hammers face teams below them in the league table.

They are currently in 9th spot, five points off Wolves in 7th.

"When you want to be in Europe, you need to think like the top clubs and need to have that consistency," said Hernandez, who has experience with top clubs such as Manchester United and Real Madrid, to the club's official website.

"You don't need to think that if you are playing against teams who are fighting relegation that it will be a bit easier or that, if you're playing against a top club you have nothing to lose.

"Those are the sort of traps you need to avoid and when you are a big club you don't get involved with. You need to think and perform in the same way in every game so that, if you win, you are the best or if you lose, you are the worst.

"That mindset needs to change in this club and we need to do that between now and the end of the season and, if we can do that, we can still get seventh position.

"We need to have the motivation inside all of us that we want to be better players and want to win a spot in the starting eleven, because when you're in a very good club you have 25 players but only eleven starters and everyone wants to play and wants to start.

"I guess that's the mindset we need to have consistently. It doesn't matter if we are playing against Liverpool or Manchester City or Cardiff or Huddersfield, we need to do our best and need to know that it's going to be very hard and we need to put everything we have been doing in training onto the pitch and have our attitude that we are going to give 100 per cent to get the three points."