Source: PA
Grant explains Hammers troubles
Avram Grant spoke of West Ham's psychological problems after his team squeezed into the second round of the Carling Cup with a 1-0 win over Oxford.
Captain Scott Parker scored the winner with a right-footed shot from six yards deep into injury-time at Upton Park to spare West Ham a night of humiliation against their League Two opponents.
It was West Ham's first win of the new season and while Grant had made six changes from the side which lost to Bolton in the Premier League at the weekend, they were still booed off at half-time by the home crowd.
The win, however, provided some respite and Grant said: "It's not just the win but the fact that it is in the last minute.
"Mentally it is not just because it is the first win but that we did it in the last moment. This team carried a lot of psychology problems.
"Tonight (Tuesday) they saw that if you don't give up and keep trying to do the right things you can score in the last moment. When everything goes well we are okay, when it does not go well we are a bit nervous."
