I fairness to David Moyes he rarely looks for excuses for defeats and the same was the case for our first in eight games against Wolves.
Even the most diehard among us would agree that we were poor and that the Black country outfit were the better team on the day
It was also our first defeat in 12 games on the road and the sad truth is it could have been more but for some outstanding work by keeper Lukasz Fabianski.
Jarrod Bowen and Michail Antonio missed the target with a header and shot respectively, and the ball just would not when West Ham pushed bodies forward into the Wolves penalty area late on.
Now, the Irons will prepare for the trip to Austria to face Rapid Vienna in the UEFA Europa League, knowing a victory would guarantee them top spot in Group H and earn direct qualification to the round of 16, followed by three Premier League games in seven days away to Manchester City, then home to Brighton & Hove Albion and Chelsea.
And commenting afterwards the manager said: “We weren’t at our best and didn’t play as well as we have done and there were quite a lot of disappointing aspects of our game today, if I’m honest.
Look, we just about hung in there and tried to keep going but we didn’t really play as well as we can, but we mustn’t be fooled by Wolves because they’re a decent team, in a good league position and have shown good form for parts of the season, so it was a tight game.
We want more international players and I want to bring more to the Club in the future and I want to develop the ones we’ve got here and help them get capped by their countries. We enjoy seeing our players play for their countries.
There is part of that and I do agree it gives you less time to work with your players and we had the journey up here on Friday, so all those things do play a part.
We’ve got a wall of football games at the moment which we’re all looking at, so we take each game as it comes.
We didn’t quite do enough today but we could have nicked a draw at then. People might have said we didn’t deserve it but maybe in the scheme of things, we did.
We just never looked like we could connect with the ball in the box today or hit the target, so it was disappointing.”
