Even though West Ham have done a lot of good things so far at the start of this campaign in various competitions, that result away to Villa would have left their fans hurt.
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West Ham United were at the end of a disappointing scoreline at the weekend after losing 4-1 to Aston Villa in the Premier League. The Hammers were a shadow of their usual self, as they struggled to match their previous best. Even though West Ham have done a lot of good things so far at the start of this campaign in various competitions, that result away to Villa would have left their fans hurt.
Speaking after the 4-1 defeat to Aston Villa in the Premier League, West Ham United manager David Moyes gave an honest assessment of the match. “I’ve no doubt that Aston Villa had better quality in the big moments than we did and if you look at how they’ve been playing in the last six months or so, they’ve got that. We’re still trying to build a team. We’ve started the season well and had lots of good things said about us but I know because I am the one who sees us every day that there are lots of things we need to do better,” the manager was quoted as saying by the club’s website.
He added: “Today was a game against a side who you maybe hope we’ll be competing with, but they looked like they were at a different level than we were today. I’m most disappointed that we lost our being tough and hard to beat and play against and we let them score easy goals. That’s not what my teams do. Our football is improving and some of our stuff is getting better, but we can’t then let that be part of it and not defend hard enough, well enough or compact enough to make it hard for the opposition to score.”
Moyes was not happy with some of the goals they conceded and felt that the team could have also made the most of good attacking situations they found themselves in certain moments of the match. “I thought we did gift them goals, and certainly the second one was very disappointing with what we did there. We were one-nil down at the time and we had done OK. Maybe we hadn’t played as well [as them] but in the first half we had great opportunities to make chances,” he explained.
He added: “We’ve had that in games this season and taken those chances, like we did away to Brighton, when we’ve made the moments count. Today we had the chance to make those moments and we never made them. We got the opportunities to pick out a good cross or find somebody in the box or find someone clean or pick someone out from a corner, but we didn’t do that.”
David Moyes on the start to the season The West Ham manager then spoke about what he thought about the team’s start to the season. “We have had a great start in all the competitions, in the Premier League, we got through in the League Cup and we started well in the group stages of the Europa League. We’ve got a difficult game in midweek but let’s dust ourselves down from this one and get ourselves ready [for Olympiacos away]. The Premier League is always going to be our bread and butter and they are the ones we have to focus on, but if we can do what we’ve done in the last two years and go as far as we can in European competition, that’s our aim,” he explained.
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