West Ham boss David Moyes is confident of guiding the club to Premier League safety.

But he also has bemoaned their loss of valuable preparation time caused by the rearrangement of Wednesday's trip to Manchester City.

He said: "I'm more than confident [we will climb the table]. I think the players here are more than capable. I think we have got a good group.

"I think they are all fully aware of the situation we're in and the improvement we need to make to make sure we're not in the bottom three, and I'm sure come the end we will do.

"We have been in probably a month now, we are still finding our way around, we have had to play a lot of games, we've not had much time on the grass really because of playing and recovery.

"And I think this this week we were looking forward to having a week's preparation and little bit of work with the players but obviously that's been taken away with us with the game coming in much quicker."