Aaron Cresswell admitted the Hammers felt a familiar frustration as they slipped to a 1-0 defeat at Aston Villa on Saturday.
With four goals in their last nine games to their name and missing Diafra Sakho and Andy Carroll through injury, West Ham’s recent struggles to find the net surfaced again at Villa Park.
That meant Tom Cleverley’s 31st minute goal was enough to hand the hosts maximum points and leave Cresswell and his teammates still searching for a first away league win of 2015.
“We’re disappointed,” he admitted. “We just need to take one of the chances we’re creating, but unfortunately we couldn’t do that on Saturday and we paid the price with the goal they scored in the first half.
“I think we had a couple of chances. Enner had his header ruled out for offside, but I think if we score the first goal it’s a different game.
“We were disappointed with the way we conceded. Grealish pulled it back from the line and unfortunately for us it’s gone through James Collins’ legs and the lad’s tapped it in.
“They’re fighting for their lives down at the bottom and that’s never nice for anyone, including the players.
“They were 1-0 up and they were always going to sit back in the last 15, 20 minutes. We just needed that goal which we couldn’t get.”
The Hammers now face a home meeting with Everton and an away trip to Newcastle United to finish the season and Cresswell is determined to help his team rediscover their shooting boots.
He added: “We want to finish with a flourish by taking six points from the two games against Everton and Newcastle, to try and finish as high up that table as we can.”