West Ham manager Slaven Bilic has admitted to feeling disappointed after his side fell to a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Everton, ending their recent resurgence.
The Hammers had won three successive games prior to the trip to Goodison Park, but remain just above the relegation zone after Sunday's loss.
Quoted on theWest Ham official website, Bilic said:I have the feeling that, while you are always not happy after a defeat, I am more disappointed today because we could have taken something from this game.
I'm not saying that they didn't deserve it, because at the end of the day they were more mature when the game was on the line, but we should have done better with the start we had.
In the first few minutes we were much better than them and we should have built on that. Then they came back in the second part of the first half with their aggression to get to the second balls, and they created a great chance for Barkley and that was a massive save from Adrian.
With the first goal, I'm really disappointed because we gave a cheap goal away. It was cheap because we had the chance to clear the ball, we waited too long and Bolasie committed himself to the tackle and fortunately it went to Lukaku.
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After that, we had a couple of chances to equalise but they were always dangerous on the counter-attack and they scored the second one."
Bilic was keen to stress that there should be no overreaction after the result, and also praised West Ham's nemesis Romelu Lukaku.
We didn't go high-flying after the three wins, and likewise we're not going to drop after one defeat,� he said. We showed some good football, but I'm big-time disappointed because I expected us to create some situations.
Lukaku is a world-class player. On one hand it's a pleasure to see him live when the game is open “ his pace, strength, physique and the plan in his head “ but when we were tight in the first half, we coped with him really good.
"Of course he's a world-class player and he seems to always do it against us!"