Source: Team_Talk
Dyer won't panic over poor start
Kieron Dyer is refusing to panic about West Ham's start to the Premier League season, insisting he is just happy to be playing football again.[LNB] Dyer, 31, has seen the last three years of his career wrecked by injury and was forced to undergo a series of painful massages this summer to reduce the scar tissue left on his leg by a succession of operations.[LNB]The radical treatment appears to have paid off, with the former England winger having started the Hammers' last two league matches.[LNB]Saturday's 3-0 defeat at Manchester United was just his ninth top-flight start since joining West Ham in the summer of 2007.[LNB]And although it was the club's third successive defeat since the start of the season, Dyer is confident they can haul themselves off the foot of the table after the international break.[LNB]"Man United away is not going to determine how our season goes, but it's another 3-0 loss, he told his club's official website, www.whufc.com.[LNB]"It would have been good to get some kind of result just to get the confidence up.[LNB]"Obviously, last season was a massive struggle but, where I'm coming from, for me personally, I'm just buzzing to play football again.[LNB]"We've got two weeks now and they've got to get the confidence from somewhere because when we do click and we do get it together, we are not a bad team."[LNB]Despite making a losing return to the side, Dyer has impressed on his two appearances and received a warm welcome back by Hammers fans.[LNB]"We were losing 2-0 to Bolton when I came off and they gave me a standing ovation and that meant a lot to me," he said.[LNB]"My message to them is, 'We will start winning eventually and we'll get up that league table'."[LNB]West Ham have never before started a season with four straight league defeats but that now looks to be a real possibility, with red-hot Chelsea their next opponents.[LNB]But Dyer said: "We believe we can beat Chelsea. It's a completely different game.[LNB]"It's a derby game and form will go out of the window. We'll have the crowd and it's one of those games where Scotty [Parker] gets in the tackles and gets the crowd going.[LNB]"The manager is trying to change the mentality of players and we have to change it.[LNB]"We have to start winning games. We're obviously playing catch-up already."[LNB]
