‘I didn’t see it coming’: Boss provides honest assessment

admin | November 26, 2023 | Other Clubs | No Comments

West Ham manager David Moyes acknowledges his team were not at their best during their thrilling late win over Burnley.

The Clarets were defeated 2-1 by two late goals, their eighth consecutive home defeat.

It happened after Vincent Kompany’s team had taken the lead thanks to Jay Rodriguez’s penalty.

Moyes admitted after the game that the Hammers were arguably lucky to take three points.

“I didn’t see it [coming] at half-time,” he added. “But we went in at 0-0, which was probably as good as it could have gotten for us because we hadn’t played well at all in the first half.”

“We were too slow and didn’t have an impact on Burnley, but Burnley only had a couple of half chances, so they didn’t have many.”

“However, we started the second half much better, but within a minute or two, we conceded a penalty kick, which I thought looked soft at the time.” I’ve just seen it on the small screen, and maybe when I get a chance to look at it properly, I’ll decide, but my first impression was that it looked pretty soft.

“Thankfully, the game’s climax was fantastic, and it demonstrated a lot of what we have as a team in terms of resilience.”

“We never waned, had to keep trying to find ways to get a goal and it didn’t look like we were going to.”