Speaking to the official site he praised the squads teamwork following their 0-1 victory over Fulham, "I can't praise them enough. We take it for granted a little bit what they have done when you see other teams in a lot of trouble.
"Week in, week out, they have dug in and done fantastically well. The back five is the only constant. It is probably what has got us to where we are that we look very strong defensively.
When some teams do manage to break us down, one of them pulls us out of it. You can't forget that Greeny had a one-on-one with Jimmy Bullard and came and did it. It could have been a totally different result if that had gone in."
The Hammers face
"We know we have got a tough week coming up.
"We are going to be put to the test but so far this season we have raised our game against the big four so we will see what happens."