Matthew Upson was looking at the bigger picture after West Ham United picked up their first home point of the season against Fulham.
With just seven games played the West Ham United captain knows that not too much attention should be paid to league standings at this early stage. "Where we sit the table is not what we need to be looking at," he said. "We need to look at where the team is going, where the performances are going and from that point of view it is not all bad news.
"But we need to be more clinical and wipe out the little things that are letting us down."
After a solid first-half display on Sunday, West Ham went into the interval deservedly a goal to the good. But after the interval Roy Hodgson's side, who had already seen Kagisho Dikacoi dismissed, rallied and two quick goals were only just cancelled out by a late Junior Stanislas equaliser. Depite the late goal, Upson, who has joined up with his England team-mates ahead of Saturday's FIFA World Cup qualifier with Ukraine on Saturday, felt the Hammers should have taken more from the game.
"It feels like we lost the game even though we scored to draw. We are very disappointed and it is something that we need to put behind us and get stronger from. We passed it well in the first half and created chances to win the game, and we ended the half just one up.
"It was a dangerous game at half-time, as we never added to the lead, and it gave them an incentive to pull together, which they did. They played very well with ten men and we never killed it off and a couple of mistakes and sloppy things costs us. That is the reason why it feels a loss."