Slaven Bilic 'angry' after Andy Carroll red card 'ruins' West Ham momentum

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Rory Dollard14 October 2017

West Ham manager Slaven Bilic declared himself angry and disappointed at Andy Carroll's senseless sending-off at Burnley.

Carroll, having spent so much of his West Ham career fighting for fitness, tossed away his latest chance with two yellow cards in the space of 99 seconds condemning him to an early exit and his team-mates to more than an hour of numerical disadvantage.

They nearly emerged with an unlikely win, Michail Antonio having slotted into an empty net before Carroll felled both James Tarkowski and Ben Mee, but Burnley snared a point through Chris Wood's late header.

Bilic was robust in the tackle in his own playing days but saw little room for sympathy on this occasion.

"I'm very disappointed and angry as well," he said.

"I'm very disappointed, and not with the referee's decision.

"We had momentum and that was ruined by a couple of bookings in the space of two minutes. For a player of Andy's experience, basically you can't do that.

"The first one can happen, alright, the second one...it was an unbelievable bad decision (from Carroll), a bad challenge, don't even go there."

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Bilic did attempt to see glimmers of Carroll's best attributes but even that most charitable attempt rang hollow after the late equaliser.

"He is a brave player, not a lazy player," he said, parsing the 28-year-old's logic.

"He commits himself and that virtue is a big part of his quality. He wants to win all the balls in his space and that is a big space.

"What can I do? I don't know."

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