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• Founded:1895
• Manager:Sam Allardyce

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Solano wants strong finish

29 Feb 2008 - 07:36:42

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West Ham United midfielder Nolberto Solano is determined to help the club finish strongly in a bid to qualify for European competition.

Solano scored the winner in last weekend's 1-0 success at Fulham which consolidated tenth place in the league table and the Peruvian winger now has his sights firmly set on the UEFA Cup.

The former Aston Villa and Newcastle United wideman has also conceded manager Alan Curbishley has a point when he claims the Hammers don't score enough goals.

They have conceded a mere 23 goals in 26 Premier League games this term, but have managed to score only 31 times..

"I understand what the manager is saying as we don't score many goals," said Solano.

"Our strikers don't score many goals. Sometimes we don't create many chances to give the strikers. We know it.

"At home games, we have been winning 1-0 and it is not enough, especially in this league. We need to kill the game in the first half an hour.

"Sometimes it is very difficult to score in this league as teams fight and fight for the result, but we need to improve and create more chances.

"Our midfield has to give the chances to the strikers to create something. We can't carry on only creating two or three chances in a game, we need to do much better.

"We need to play better football if we want to score more goals.

"We aren't having a bad season, compared to last season. We are in a comfortable position but we want to win."