West Ham supervisor David Moyes was filled with reward for his side no matter their exit to Bayer Leverkusen throughout the Europa League.
The Hammers confronted a tricky course of on the London Stadium having misplaced the first leg 2-0 in Germany closing week.
Moyes’ sided started successfully and acquired on the newly topped Bundesliga champions with Michail Antonio heading residence after 13 minutes.
Moyes happy with West Ham no matter exit
The one regret the Scot may have is his workforce could have been two or three nil up at half time with Jarrod Bowen and Antonio having further chances.
West Ham clearly drained after such a relentless first half and easily couldn’t uncover a second objective as Leverkusen grew into the competitors.
In the long term Jeremie Frimpong’s deflected strike levelled the scores on the night time time and ensured Leverkusen extended their unbeaten run this season to an unimaginable 44 video video games.
Moyes couldn’t fault his players after the game and knowledgeable West Ham’s official web site:
“The workforce did brilliantly, they’ve been implausible they normally deserve all the plaudits for his or her effectivity.They’ve been magnificent from the start to the tip.
“We couldn’t pretty protect the vitality up as loads throughout the second half, nonetheless good credit score rating to them.
“We’d earned the acceptable to realize the first objective.
“If one thing, we must always all the time probably have scored three throughout the first half and we didn’t take the probabilities as soon as we should have executed.
“That was probably crucial motive why we didn’t get it.”
Moyes added that he believes West Ham could give most teams a sport nonetheless bemoaned a shortage of squad depth.
“I’m proud, nonetheless I on a regular basis assume we could give most teams a sport”, the 60-year-old continued.
“We’ve had the likes of Man Metropolis proper right here and Liverpool proper right here by means of the years, and I’ve on a regular basis acknowledged I would like to provide the massive teams a sport.
“I assumed we gave them a extraordinarily good sport tonight. Merely not pretty adequate and that’s the excellence.
“They’re probably on the subsequent stage they normally’ve truly purchased additional to select from coming off the bench, which that that they had as soon as extra tonight.
“It made it robust for us to take care of up the an identical ranges of vitality we had throughout the first half tonight.”
West Ham’s focus will now be completely on the Premier League as they objective to proceed their European journey subsequent season having made it to the latter ranges of European competitions three years in a row.
