David Moyes admitted to frustration with West Ham United’s second-half defending in Saturday’s 3-2 defeat against Brentford.
The Irons had gone in for half-time 2-1 up at the Gtech Community Stadium, after Mohammed Kudus’ brilliant equaliser cancelled out Neal Maupay’s opener for the Bees, with Jarrod Bowen’s record-breaking finish giving the Irons the advantage at the interval.
However, Brentford fought back in the second half and levelled through an own-goal, as Konstantinos Mavropanos turned into his own net, before Nathan Collins headed in at the back post to secure the win for the hosts.
While the manager could find positives with some aspects of his team’s efforts, including elements of the attacking display, Moyes was disappointed with the goals his team conceded in defeat in west London…
Bits of the performance were okay.
We did quite well at times in the first half although I felt we’d given up too much territory with ten or 15 minutes to go until half-time, which allowed Brentford to grow back into the game more than I’d have liked.
We set out at half-time to try and get the third goal and try to play better.
Because we had the two up front I thought, the moment we gave it to those two, we might have a better chance of scoring and we should have done. But the other part of that is we should have defended better.
We got to half-time 2-1 up and the idea was to not concede any more goals.
If you don’t concede any more then we win the game, but we did concede and I didn’t like the goals we let in. They came from second phase set-pieces. The first part of them we’d dealt with and defended them, and then we didn’t defend the second part.
It was a great goal from Mohammed Kudus.
We missed a couple of players with suspension today and Kurt Zouma had an injury, so we were a little bit short, but there were some good things.
We got the lead and we tried to play with two up front today.
But we’ve come here too often and I hate the feeling that we’re losing to Brentford every time. I’ve left pig-sick every time and I’m leaving again pig-sick.
