Zola: Hammers are improving

West Ham boss feels that his side are finally turning their form the right way around. After grabbing a goalless 0-0 draw at Anfield on Monday night, the Italian eased the pressure on himself and insisted that the Hammers were improving with each game.

Zola feels there is still plenty to come from West Ham, and is confident that they will stay in the Premiership this year after a disappointing run of misfortune this year already.

"I feel that our fitness has improved, we needed to do that when I first arrived," he said.

"The team is now not dropping in the last 20 minutes as they were at the beginning, they are lasting more and their sharpness is much better. It is all very encouraging for me.

"We have lost far too many points in the last 20 minutes of games, that is not happening any more. It means that we are getting better physically.

"And we will get even better than this. It is important for us that the injuries are clearing up and we have a bigger squad. And if you improve your fitness it will also affect injuries.

"If you are fitter then there are less possibilities to get injured.

"It is good, at last everything is looking better. We will be playing Spurs next having produced two excellent away performances, winning at Sunderland and now drawing with the top-of-the-table team.

"Everything is looking right. But we have keep things low-key, we are going great but we must be focused and continue to work hard."