West Ham supervisor David Moyes was stuffed with reward for his facet regardless of their exit to Bayer Leverkusen within the Europa League.
The Hammers confronted a troublesome 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 house after 13 minutes.
Moyes pleased with West Ham regardless of exit
The one remorse the Scot could have is his group may 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.
Ultimately Jeremie Frimpong’s deflected strike levelled the scores on the night time 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 informed West Ham’s official web site:
“The group did brilliantly, they had been incredible and so they deserve all of the plaudits for his or her efficiency.They had been magnificent from the begin to the top.
“We couldn’t fairly maintain the power up as a lot within the second half, however nice credit score to them.
“We’d earned the suitable to attain the primary aim.
“If something, we should always most likely have scored three within the first half and we didn’t take the possibilities after we ought to have achieved.
“That was most likely the most important motive why we didn’t get it.”
Moyes added that he believes West Ham may give most groups a recreation however bemoaned a scarcity of squad depth.
“I’m proud, however I at all times suppose we may give most groups a recreation”, the 60-year-old continued.
“We’ve had the likes of Man Metropolis right here and Liverpool right here through the years, and I’ve at all times stated I need to give the large groups a recreation.
“I assumed we gave them a very good recreation tonight. Simply not fairly sufficient and that’s the distinction.
“They’re most likely at the next stage and so they’ve definitely obtained extra to select from coming off the bench, which they’d once more tonight.
“It made it troublesome 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 intention to proceed their European journey subsequent season having made it to the latter levels of European competitions three years in a row.
