West Ham manager Slaven Bilic admitted he was 'disappointed' with his side's 3-2 defeat to Bournemouth on Saturday and stated that he felt his team deserved something from the game.
Having taken an early lead through the recalled Michail Antonio, the Hammers spent much of the second half trailing to Josh King's brace.
Substitute Andre Ayew scored an 83rd minute equaliser to seemingly hand the East Londoners a precious point, but they were to be denied late on as King found a winner and completed his hat-trick.
Bournemouth take the points.#BOUWHU #COYI pic.twitter.com/erTc44taaF
Speaking after the full-time whistle, Bilic was adamant that his team deserved more from the match, although the Croatian did also concede that they only had themselves to blame for conceding a late winner on the counter attack.
He told the clubwebsite:At the end I definitely felt we should have got something out of it.
"But Bournemouth also played good and they showed great aggression and missed a couple of penalties too.
We were good when we scored the first goal and then we had a few good opportunities and situations to maybe go two up, having taken advantage of their shock at missing the first penalty and then us scoring within a minute.
After they scored the second goal, we were really good up until we equalised. After that, it's hard to concede a goal. When it was 2-2 we should not have conceded a goal from a counter-attack, basically. We are disappointed, of course.�
2 - This is the first time @WestHamUtd have ever seen an opponent miss two penalties in a Premier League game. Fluffed. https://t.co/79CnqwVHce
The Hammers' boss then further elaborated on his thoughts regarding Bournemouth's late winner and rued his side's failure to close the game out, highlighting in particular his players' inability to read the match situation.
Bilic added:At that moment we went for a third goal but basically with too many players.
We were very, very open and we lost the ball and then it was a good counter-attack from them. Darren made a good save, of course, but it went to their player and they scored.
On my way home. Bournemouth 3 West Ham 2
We were well below par today 6/10 referee 7/10 West Ham away fans were at their best 10/10 dg
We are disappointed, especially because we had so many chances. At the end of the day, we scored two goals away from home and we should have got something out of the game.
We had been on a good run and had been playing good and we showed good quality to equalise. We had pressure, but they were always dangerous on the counter-attack. Basically, when we made it 2-2 they can't score, not from a counter-attack.�