Moyes ‘disappointed’ by ‘avoidable’ Hammers defeat at Man Utd

Dan Butterfield
West Ham manager David Moyes

West Ham manager David Moyes was left feeling disappointed as his side fell to a late defeat at Manchester United.

Marcus Rashford slotted home late on to give Ralf Rangnick’s side the three points and move them ahead of the the Hammers, Arsenal and Tottenham in the race for the top four.


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Speaking to BBC Sport after the game, Moyes admitted: “It’s not easy when you lose a goal in the last second.

“It was certainly avoidable. We made a couple of poor decisions in the build-up to it.

“A draw would have been a good result as we hadn’t played well enough to score goals, but we certainly kept Man Utd out enough to get the draw.

“I want to win. I’m not coming to these team to let them beat me. I’m coming challenge them. I can’t fault the players for their effort. But we just lacked little bits and did not do the correct things, how to see games out and we didn’t do that in the last minute.

“They [the team] been great, we need to keep at it, hanging in there. See where we end up. It shows you how disappointed we are that we’ve come here and should have got a point.”

West Ham skipper Declan Rice also claimed that a draw would have been a fair result.

“I think a draw was a fair result. There weren’t many clear chances in the game,” said Rice.

“But to be naïve like that and give away a goal in the last 20 seconds is devastating.

“When they were pushing players forward we are such a counter-attacking side we still had the energy to go forward. It was a real kick in the teeth to concede that late.

“We are still up there and still competing, but we knew how big today was.

“We were much more compact than against Leeds last week but we didn’t have that cutting edge.

“We will come back and be ready for that next one to push again.”