Andy Carroll is suffering with whiplash at the end of a week which saw him score a spectacular goal against Crystal Palace

Slaven Bilic has revealed Andy Carroll is a doubt for West Ham's trip to Middlesbrough after suffering a whiplash injury.

The striker scored a spectacular, acrobatic scissor kick during last weekend's 3-0 win over Crystal Palace.

But at the end of the match he was feeling a problem with his neck and had to sit out training earlier this week.

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Manager Slaven Bilic was surprised by the unusual diagnosis, but still expects his big frontman to be fit for the trip to Teesside.

"He's got a whiplash injury, that's what I was told from the physios," said Bilic.

"Then I went to the dictionary basically to find out what that is. It was a sore neck, but hopefully he will be okay.

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"It was at the end of the game, I don't know how he got it.

"He then trained Tuesday very hard, he was brilliant in training, but then reported some neck pain. But as I say, hopefully he will be okay.

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"We have a few with knocks - Winston Reid has a painful one and Sam Byram has a knock on his knee, it was swollen and he missed training on Wednesday.

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"Also Sofiane Feghouli missed training on Wednesday because of a minor problem with his Achilles.

"But I'm very optimistic that all of them are going to be fit for the game on Saturday."