West Ham supervisor David Moyes was filled with reward for his facet regardless of their exit to Bayer Leverkusen within the Europa League.
The Hammers confronted a tough job on the London Stadium having misplaced the primary leg 2-0 in Germany final week.
Moyes’ sided began nicely and obtained on the newly topped Bundesliga champions with Michail Antonio heading residence after 13 minutes.
Moyes pleased with West Ham regardless of exit
The one remorse the Scot might have is his group might have been two or three nil up at half time with Jarrod Bowen and Antonio having additional possibilities.
West Ham clearly drained after such a relentless first half and simply couldn’t discover a second aim as Leverkusen grew into the competition.
In the long run Jeremie Frimpong’s deflected strike levelled the scores on the evening and ensured Leverkusen prolonged their unbeaten run this season to an unbelievable 44 video games.
Moyes couldn’t fault his gamers after the sport and instructed West Ham’s official web site:
“The group did brilliantly, they have been implausible and so they deserve all of the plaudits for his or her efficiency.They have been magnificent from the begin to the tip.
“We couldn’t fairly hold the power up as a lot within the second half, however nice credit score to them.
“We’d earned the appropriate to attain the primary aim.
“If something, we should always in all probability have scored three within the first half and we didn’t take the possibilities after we ought to have carried out.
“That was in all probability the largest motive why we didn’t get it.”
Moyes added that he believes West Ham may give most groups a sport however bemoaned an absence of squad depth.
“I’m proud, however I all the time assume we may give most groups a sport”, the 60-year-old continued.
“We’ve had the likes of Man Metropolis right here and Liverpool right here over time, and I’ve all the time stated I wish to give the large groups a sport.
“I believed we gave them a very good sport tonight. Simply not fairly sufficient and that’s the distinction.
“They’re in all probability at a better stage and so they’ve definitely obtained extra to select from coming off the bench, which that they had once more tonight.
“It made it tough for us to maintain up the identical ranges of power we had within the first half tonight.”
West Ham’s focus will now be absolutely on the Premier League as they goal to proceed their European journey subsequent season having made it to the latter phases of European competitions three years in a row.
