David Moyes doesn’t believe the Hammers got their just desserts at the City Ground yesterda where we sunk to our second defeat of the season.
It left the Hammers second off bottom with zero points above only Manchester United with Palace and Everton above us – also with no points on the board.
The Hammers goal was something of a disaster being bundled home after the ball rebounded off Ben Johnson’s knee in extra time of the first half.
But whilst admitting that we defended poorly and started badly over the first 20 minutes the Hammers boss insisted that we didn’t deserve the result we got,
Fair enough but at the end of a poor pre-season the situation is bound to be causing some concern as we look ahead to Thursday and the European Conference qualifying clash against Viborg followed by a visit from Brightpn and Hove Albion on Sunday.
Commenting on the game at Forest the manager said: “We defended really poorly, quite often, and we didn’t do that well enough. It cost us a goal through very poor defending, and gave them a chance.
“We have to blame ourselves. Maybe we could have scored three or four goals. But it wasn’t to be today.”
“The first 20 minutes were really poor. I thought we grew into the game and I don’t think we deserved the result we got, but that’s the one we got in the end.
“We made enough chances to score the goals but we just didn’t take them”
We were expecting it to be tough and we knew they were going to come out, and it was a terrific atmosphere in here. It’s a great old stadium, so it’s what we expected.
“We didn’t cope with it particularly well in the opening 20 minutes but we grew into the game and got a bit better, without being spectacular.