London — West Ham manager Slaven Bilic is under even more serious pressure after Ronald Koeman’s sacking by Everton on Monday but he will hope for a fillip in Wednesday’s Last 16 League Cup action. Media reports suggest that Bilic, who made his name as Croatian national coach, has been given two matches to salvage his job but a trip away to in-form Tottenham Hotspur is probably not the sort of challenge one would want as one of them. Despite splashing out £140m on players in the close season, Everton lie third from bottom of the Premier League. They will begin life after Koeman by travelling to champions Chelsea. Both may have to play their first teams in a competition that usually gives Premier League managers the chance to rest weary first-choice players. The League Cup would be at the bottom of priorities for most Premier League managers in terms of silverware or for some simply to survive in the elite to keep on reaping in the millions that membership offers. However, for Bilic ...
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