West Ham boss David Moyes took a lot of positives despite his side suffering a 3-1 Premier League loss to Manchester City
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00:00 Yeah. Okay, guys. When you're when you're ready, he wants kicks off. Yeah. Great game.
00:27 Yeah. And you know, see what other games were other games of similarities. You know, Chelsea missed a penalty kick. Our keeper saves one. No, Mick breaks through in scores to make it to one. So small margins in football at the moment. And to be fair, the early season ones have gone for us. Today, today, like we put against the top top team, and we've done an okay job. Bits of it. I like bits of it I didn't like. But, uh, I think we've done a good job.
00:56 But, uh, but overall, I have to say the players done a brilliant job in the main and, you know, we tried to make it as difficult as we could. We always do against Man City. We try to get many chances as we possibly can against Man City. And I think you have to be really clinical and also really clinical defensively as well that you really can't afford to make many mistakes. And I thought I thought the first goal came at a bad time.
01:21 I thought the second goal was a mistake and we should have. We should have dealt with that much, much better. And it probably turned the game really at that point.
01:29 Well, you could you could practice all week at finishing drills when you know that you're so what would you want to practice most of the week when you're going to play Man City? You're gonna have to practice how you're going to make sure that you're defend well, play in the right positions, you know, cover, be well organised.
01:58 Be very good because ultimately they're going to have most of the ball against most teams. But the other side of that is for us to try and do better than we did. Might have been the best we've played with the ball against Man City. I thought we done really well with the ball today.
02:12 Without maybe making, I wouldn't say many chances, but the points you made, maybe the chance in the corner kick, Kurt's header, keeper saves and then the one Micky Antonio sort of gets away. Last week he had something similar and he put it through the legs of the defender and scored.
02:29 So small, small things can make a difference. But there was no, I'm not disappointed with how we played. Just small moments in the games could make big differences.
02:42 How much do you think Ed Sanalba is coming off changing?
02:45 Hugely, yeah, hugely. I was a bit worried because he'd been booked and that was when he talked to me about it at half time and I was a bit worried. And then he actually gave a free kick away outside the edge of the box and I didn't know how many more he would get away with really.
03:00 But ideally we wouldn't have taken him off. He didn't get back until four o'clock on Thursday, flight was delayed coming back from Atlanta, didn't get back into the training ground. So to get the boys back and try to get them ready for the games on Saturday is really difficult.
03:16 That's why the international games being earlier in the week, Monday, Tuesday, at least gives you a chance. His game was Wednesday night in Atlanta. So really late going for the time difference etc.
03:31 Do you have to acknowledge just how good they are? I mean some brilliant teams this week but they've got, like, seven game leads, incredible.
03:39 Doku, yeah. Doku we liked a lot, we played against him in pre-season and of course there's a problem in pre-season, playing on the right, he can play both sides, very direct. Very good 1v1.
03:55 So yeah, he was a handful all game. But what we had is we had problems in all the other areas as well, we're having to cope with it. In the main, I actually thought that we were right back doing a brilliant job, brilliant sticking to the task, trying to deal with it the best we possibly could.
04:12 And you just get done on one occasion really, which was one that really mattered.
04:18 Jim? Jim Fortbrow has completely scored again in an RDA game. What does it mean for the team to be part of a team that can be as central in a facility as Silver League?
04:33 Well I think he's someone who's well known and I think everybody knows he's a really good professional. What he can add is what he's given us at the moment, his deliveries from the set pieces, he's now got a couple of goals for us already.
04:47 If you've got a midfield player who's getting you goals through the season, it's a great thing to have. He's got off to a great start for us. I think him and Alvarez, both of them have played terrifically well for us.
05:01 We'll play better, we'll play against teams which are maybe a bit easier to beat than what we've played against today. But overall, I'm really pleased with James.
05:13 Okay guys, thank you. Thank you. Thank you