Mark Noble plays down West Ham's run without a win

Mark Noble played down West Ham’s winless run after Saturday’s 3-0 defeat to Arsenal left Sam Allardyce’s side without a victory in eight matches.

Olivier Giroud, Aaron Ramsey and Mathieu Flamini found the target as the Gunners cruised to victory at the Emirates.

“It’s not a massive concern,” midfielder Noble told Sky Sports. “Obviously it is a little bit worrying but we know with the performances we’ve had over the past eight games that we are due a win.

“Obviously we are going through a tough patch at the minute we had a great first half to the season as you know and we need to kick on for the last quarter of it.”

Allardyce’s side are now 10th in the table but Noble claims his side are not worried about the prospect of slipping into the bottom half of the table and hopes the Hammers can get back to winning ways next weekend against Sunderland.

“No there is no fear at all really,” added Noble. “We’re still looking ahead of us and we’ve got a good game on Saturday and we need to approach that the right way and get a win at home.   

“We’ve got a good bunch of lads, we’ll keep trying hard, keep working hard, keep training well and hopefully we can get some points against Sunderland next week.

“The games that we’ve had - the Manchester United game, the Chelsea game, the Spurs game - we should have got a lot more points out of them, we slipped up a little bit and we knew today was going to be tough as it always is when you come here.”