West Ham manager, David Moyes felt that his team “couldn’t take our chances” in their FA Cup exit at Bristol City.
Tommy Conway’s third minute winner saw Bristol City edge past the Hammers in their Third Round replay of this season’s FA Cup, with the 21 year-old having previously clinched this replay with his equalising goal in a 1-1 draw in East London in the initial tie.
Moyes consequently lamented his team for their failure to get the job done at home as he explained post-match: “We probably should have won the tie at our place a week ago, but we didn’t and we put ourselves under pressure.”
That pressure showed in the third minute as Conway intercepted Kontantinos Mavropanos’ backpass to Lukasz Fabianski and calmly scored the decisive goal.
Moyes however was critical of his team’s poor end product as he continued: “We gave away a goal with a short pass, but we should have been in to score – we overhit a pass for Danny Ings to score in the same action – and it was a calamity in that minute.
“We had good periods and good control in the game, but we couldn’t take our chances when we got them.”
The ex Manchester United boss though refused to start “blaming anybody,” as he instead believed that the tie was lost at home following the draw, although he thought that the team “would still have enough to get it done.
“We had enough chances to get something, but the games are tight. We’ve won a few and drawn a few tight ones, but tonight was tight and it went against us.”
Said Benrahma’s red card for a reckless act of retaliation on Joe Williams’ foul early in the second half made life for West Ham more “difficult”, but Moyes iterated that the side “… kept trying to find a way of being a team who could attack and get something from it.
“We, for a good chunk of it, did a good job. They had a few openings later on when we were trying to find ways of getting it.”
Academy graduate, Callum Marshall made his senior debut as a 80th minute substitute and Moyes was full of praise for the 19 year-old.
“He’s a great lad who scores goals and he’s a lover of football, which I really like, because it means he wants the ball and wants to play the game. He’s a good boy.”
Moyes however iterated that there are no plans to rush Marshall’s development as he concluded: “We want to bring him on and nuture him in the right way.”
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