West Ham boss Slaven Bilic believes the upcoming partnership of Javier Hernandez and Andy Carroll will be a big benefit to the club, and says it has the potential to turn the Hammer’s season around.

Chicarito has been one of West Ham’s star performers so far in what has been a poor start to the season, and the return of Andy Carroll against Huddersfield on Monday was a huge boost, having spent over 5 months on the sidelines.

The duo complementing each other up front is a mouth watering prospect, and one that Bilic believes will form a deadly strike partnership.

“Definitely they can play together, they are complimentary players,” Bilic said.

“That was the plan when we got Hernandez. We didn’t buy him just because of that but also one of the reasons why he was great for us was because they are two players that can play with each other.”

“The little and large striker, it’s not that you don’t see that in football anymore, a lot of teams play with two strikers.”

“It’s maybe not exactly like that but you have Fernando Torres and Antoine Griezmann [at Atletico Madrid]. Griezmann is the one who is floating, Torres is the more direct.”

“You have that maybe less nowadays but it’s not old-fashioned. They can play together.”
[Quotes via Sky Sports]

The return of Andy Carroll has been eagerly anticipated for months, let’s hope the forward can put his injury woes behind him and help push the Hammers up the league table.