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West Ham have been rocked by the news that £22m winger Andriy Yarmolenko is out for up to six months with a ruptured Achilles tendon.

The Ukraine international winger went down clutching his ankle during Saturday’s defeat by Tottenham with nobody around him.

Yarmolenko, 28, will have an operation this week but the club have resigned themselves to losing him for a lengthy spell.

A source said: “We get no luck. It’s a terrible blow for the club.”

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West Ham's recent revival has hit the buffers after successive 1-0 losses to Brighton and London rivals Spurs.

Erik Lamela's first-half header was enough to secure victory for Spurs on Saturday but the visitors were indebted to goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, who made two superb saves to deny Marko Arnautovic an equaliser.

After the defeat, Hammers boss Manuel Pellegrini said: "I prefer to wait for tomorrow and wait for the doctors' diagnosis.

"He has fallen between his ankle and foot. We are not sure.

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"It maybe didn't look good because he went off on a stretcher but it's better to wait for tomorrow."

West Ham would have been good value for the draw they would have secured had Javier Hernandez's late goal not been ruled out for offside.

"If you want to talk about the results, I'm not happy with them, but I am happy with how we are improving," added Pellegrini.

"The last two defeats, maybe both of them we didn't deserve to lose."